A book on ImageMagick?

Posted on by mikal

I’ve been sitting on this for a little while, and a couple of people I’ve met in the flesh have heard about it, but I think the time is right to start talking about it more in public. A little while ago Apress asked me if I would be interested in writing a book on…

Google maps used to map US casualties from Iraq

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A map which shows US casualties by home town. That’s a lot of people, and it’s a lot less than the Iraqis have lost. I have a lot of sympathy for America, and for the people of Iraq I guess to. What is this whole conflict improving? [tags: iraq war] [icbm: name=”Hotel Avante, Mountain View,…

Andrew is a loony

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He hasn’t slept in something like 48 hours now. He’s a loony. On of the funnier parts of the trip over was listening to the Channel 9 “from the flight deck”. Before they could take of the United plane insisted on burning off 1,000 pounds of fuel. How long did it take? 5 minutes of…

Hotel Avante

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Well, I got here. Nice hotel, nice staff on check in. Easy drive from the San Francisco airport for us foreigners. The San Francisco airport seems a lot nicer than the one in Los Angeles as well. [tags: hotel, avante]

Flattering

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I’ve had some need to be reading the ImageMagick documentation recently, and it’s flattering to see that they link to my articles on ImageMagick so often. It makes the effort worthwhile to see that people appreciate the articles. [tags: article]

Old languages

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I have a friend who used to code in an ancient and archaic language that was used for things like starting fires and planning assaults on the wooly mammoth. You know — an old language. [tags: language old age] [icbm: work]