Comments on: Chipping the web – conversation at risk

By: sterling

sterling — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:39:56 +0000

Thanks for the link, Kiltak.

BTW, your comments are still always going to moderation. Could you try registering on this site? I’m hoping that would white-list you.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:01:40 +0000

For all of you who may be curious about the alpha release:

A first look at Firefox 3.0
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061212-8409.html

By: Chipping the web - keys to the domain -- Chip’s Quips

Chipping the web - keys to the domain -- Chip’s Quips — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:28:20 +0000

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By: sterling

sterling — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:31:46 +0000

It was meant as such. The Trivia Geek is the only other TechRepublic author that I always enjoy.

By: apotheon

apotheon — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:17:01 +0000

I appreciate the implied compliment.

I only just started posting to the Geekend a few days ago, at the request of The Trivia Geek.

By: sterling

sterling — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:05:22 +0000

It was me, folding time. I adjusted the time offset on the blog.

Good stuff on the Geekend, apotheon. I didn’t realize that you contributed to those posts. I wish there were a way to get a feed of all of your TechRepublic posts, so I wouldn’t have to wade through all the other drivel over there.

By: apotheon

apotheon — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:13:38 +0000

This is weird. It looks to me like your responses to my comments are showing up before my comments. Which one of us is time-traveling?

Geekend?

Yeah, Geekend: The Trouble With Christmas Logical Problem Solving

By: sterling

sterling — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:52:33 +0000

If p = 11, P(p) = 22, and 11 divides 22. The same is true for all values of p.

Geekend?

By: apotheon

apotheon — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:25:13 +0000

P(11): Perrin number 11 is 22 (that�s for you, apotheon).

Hah! Thanks. Maybe I’ll have better luck figuring out what “It has been proved that for all primes p, p divides P(p)” means after some sleep tonight.

Firefox 3.0 in alpha (thanks, Kiltak) I think I�ll try this one out on Linux. Anyone else download it yet?

Not yet. I’ll probably give it a whirl as soon as it makes its way into FreeBSD ports. Y’know, I only just started using Fx2.0 a few weeks ago.

I’ll have a look at some of those other links later, and maybe comment here about ‘em — unless something strikes such a chord that I need to comment at more length in SOB or Geekend. The “Why smart people defend bad ideas” thing sounds familiar, though, and I wonder if I might have read it before.