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Monthly Archives: October 2003

Re-count

Monday, October 13, 2003

Mickey Kaus writes:

It’s worth noting that, in the event, not only did successor Arnold Schwarzenegger get more votes (3,744,132) than Davis (3,562,487), he also got more votes than Davis got in November, 2002 (3,469,025) when Davis won reelection.

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The Virtual Computer Company

Saturday, October 4, 2003

Over the past thirty years, the American Computer Corporation (ACA) has introduced personal computers, and in particular the bitmap display and the desktop metaphor, into the economy.

The ACA is a virtual company, composed of the following departments. The heyday for each department is given in parenthesis after the name of the real company that implements that virtual department.

  • Research: Xerox (’70s)
  • Development: Apple (late ’70s/’80s)
  • Marketing: Microsoft (late ’80s/early ’90s1)
  • Distribution: Dell (’90s/’00s)

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Laszlo Booklist Application

Friday, October 3, 2003

The animated book list at the bottom of my home page was written in Laszlo. It’s 42 lines of code, and was written entirely in a text editor (emacs) — all the images are courtesy of Amazon.

I was inspired to write this by Mark and Sarah‘s blogroll widget and by Tucker’s iTunes tool, and by a problem I had with my web site. A few weeks ago I added a list of books I was reading, and had recently finished. I initially created this list in HTML — it looked like this. I liked the visual appearance of this list, and in particular the fact that it displays the images of the book. But displaying all this author and image information took up far too much room.

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