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65 is the decimal value of the ASCII character ‘A’.

Never forget 1-31-07 (thanks, Rebecca).

What sets us apart from the other animals.

A Ruby DSL for SQL, “Because in Ruby, if you need it, you just make it happen.”

Thanks to John Koetsier, I just added the Criteo Autoroll widget to the sidebar. This widget uses the Criteo recommendation engine to generate a list of relevant sites. Let me know what you think of it.

48 is the decimal value of the ASCII character ’0′.

The spammers have been messing with apotheon’s mind. This is starting to look a lot like what I predicted .

assaf on the publication of the XQuery, XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 specs: “Can I hear a big sigh of relief? We can finally figure out what problems they’re trying to solve.”

Bad Vista . “you do that”.

Hooray for Maine. Call me a luddite, but I think our government keeps more than enough tabs on us already.

Jessica on gender essentialism:

What’s the humor in this: “Oh, MEN! They’re so inconsiderate!” Feminists actually have a higher opinion and respect for men: we hold them accountable for their actions and assume men can show consideration towards others.

Widget watch: aSangeFreddo.it uses my tag cloud widget. Love the subtitle: “*This site is best viewed with a bottle of beer.”

Space: 32 is the decimal value for the space character in ASCII and related character encodings such as ISO 8859 and Unicode.

What to do with all that spam… Cleaning out my Gmail spam bin this morning, I noticed a link near the top of the page that led to this recipe. Wait, There’s more!

Better not say too much.

Shelley led me to Olduvai George, a most interesting blog on paleontology with illustrations by Carl Buell. Subscribed.

According to Randy, Microsoft is trying to hire an “open source evangelist”. Sounds like the foxes are hiring a chicken guard.

And here’s the pecking order (thanks, Assaf).