Just finished reading Cryptonomicon, I really loved it. I don’t normally read fiction, but Jason made me read it

I can say that the 1130 pages I waded through were worth it, and Neal Stephenson’s humor is just awesome. I like his style of writing quite a bit. It has just made the top of my favorites list. I think I will have to have a fiction favorite list (Crypto is number 1), and a non-fiction list (where the Progmatic Programmer is on top currently).

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For all of you blog-reading bastards out there, I am selling my house at 900 East Third Avenue in San Mateo, CA. Open house is Saturday and Sunday, 1-4pm, and you don’t even have to miss the Super Bowl

Pics here.

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Just committed the code to make Jaxen and JDOM CVS HEAD cooperate. The tests pass, but since I know nothing of JDOM, perhaps someone out there will be able to test it as well.

Perhaps this will allow the Gump Jaxen/dom4j deadlock to come one step closer to surrender

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Pretty painless, compared to other Wordpress upgrades. I think Alex working over there may start having an effect on them, eventually. Upgraded to Tasks Pro 1.0b9 at the same time, and other than getting file permissions wrong, everything worked perfectly. I only hope in the future that the install vs. upgrade script can be the same script, based on looking at the database, and it could do everything in one shot. That would be ultra cool.

Wordpress 1.0.1 is on my site now, mostly because I’m an upgrade whore, but also because I needed/wanted the multiple category support, and the permalink syntax using mod_rewrite isn’t bad either. And any application that writes the mod_rewrite rules for you pretty much kick ass!!!

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