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Cocoa Memory Management: the 7 Step Program
Cocoa memory management is fairly straightforward, so I shouldn't have to post this. But I will, if only to prevent someone else from doing so. Only longer. And wronger.
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BANANA CARAMEL PIE
BANANA CARAMEL PIE IS NOT THAT HARD IF YOU THINK IT IS HARD THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU BANANA CARAMEL PIE REQUIRES BOTH PATIENCE AND RICE IF YOU HAVE NEITHER GO TO HELL
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Games People Play: A Book Review
Welcome to the K5 Book Club! Discussions on K5 have brought up this book. In an unrelated situation, real life people have recommended the same book to me. Mildly cultish following and also a nice short read. Dated but charming, and provides plenty of ammo for accusing your fellows of pathological behavior, which is probably the best reason to read psych books! Definitely up there with Freud and LRH. A true classic.
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To Save The Gulf, Send The Enterprise
The real Planet Earth has an ongoing situation that could use a ship of superheros like those in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek soap opera. 60+ days have passed since the Deepwater Horizon's explosion and sinking. BP company engineers have been working continuously to stop the oil, but all efforts to plug the gusher in the gulf have failed. Efforts to contain the oil are ongoing, but the best case scenario calls for the well to run until the relief wells are completed in August. In short, people are becoming aware that BP's Big Problem in the Gulf of Mexico is probably the most epic environmental catastrophe of the past 1000 years. If only the Enterprise was available to help.
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Salaryman's Bank Performance Report
Salaryman arrived to the car-park just as Boss's chauffeur was stamping on his cigarette. “Boss will be down in a second,” the chauffeur said. “You don't happen to have a laptop running OS/2, do you?” “No, I don't,” Salaryman said, tuning his cufflinks. “Darn,” the chauffeur said, staring at the doorway he expected Boss to walk through any minute. “I wanted to check my email.” Just then the door opened. Boss walked through, followed by whoever had held the door for him. Salaryman kept a keen eye on the new fellow. He was dark, thin, and tall and wore a meticulously-brushed three-piece suit.
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Booting Up with Salaryman
Salaryman set his coffee mug on his desk. On a coaster, of course. Salaryman respected his banking firm too much to stain their solid oak desks with his fresh-ground Brazilian coffee. Smacking his lips, Salaryman hit the space bar on his black keyboard with his index finger and sat back. There was a quick electronic beep and some fans under his gargantuan desk whirled to life. The LCD lit up and Salaryman typed his BIOS username and password. Username: salarymanPassword: •••••••••
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Why I Almost Gave OpenBSD $100,000--But Didn't
It is never a happy occasion to realize that a not-for-profit group, no matter how destitute or successful, is undeserving of charitable donations. And just last week I had such an unhappy realization. I wanted to donate a sizable sum of money to the OpenBSD Foundation for development of the OpeBSD operating system and other related projects. My uncle, an old Unix graybeard from the Seventies, devoted his retirement and considerable savings to teaching inner-city youth about computers and programming. He recently passed away and left instructions in his will that I donate money, in the amount of US $100,000, to "the most meritorious Free, Unix-like operating system" as according to my own research into the matter. [From http://www.trollaxor.com/2010/06/why-i-almost-gave-openbsd-100000-didnt.html.]
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