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Not too long ago I once again forgot to bring my ID card to work, but this time I did have motivation to get in anyway, since there'd be a meeting that afternoon. So I snuck in an obscure but entirely accessible side entrance that someone else showed me a while ago. It lets you avoid all manned guard stations entirely, and then your biggest obstacle is the locked building door, which anyone can defeat by waiting for someone else to come along and open it for themselves.

So there's a tip for all your orange-alert chemlab-exploders.

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BrainDump is held up until I learn more about saving and loading documents. I think I can save documents OK, but loading then again causes random things to happen, up to and including segfaults.

A prerequisite to doing this correctly is gaining a better understanding of Objective C memory allocation, and see also previous complaints about garbage collection.

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Two reviews for MacOSXian have appeared on ORA's reader review page so far. One person loved it, and the other didn't, because it lacked complete language references for Perl and awk. OK.

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Am straight-out on doing ICCB work, trying to get this app ready for Wednesday. It's fun! Been crushing my way through a checklist of bugs, slightly faster than I've been letting the list grow. Taking many work-at-home days, on the idea that I get more work done at home. I believe this to be true because I'm more comfortable at home. I like being able to get up and pace all around the place while talking to myself in order to solve problems, and having the freedom to lie down on the floor or my bed if I want, or turn on the radio, or myriad other things.

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I feel hope every time I read about Iraq's edging toward greater UN inspection compliance (of the pratical sort, like agreeing to U2 fly-overs), and this is tempered with cynicism, since the official U.S. reaction to anything Iraq does is brash dismissal, followed by accusation that Iraq is still not complying. It's frustrating and embarrassing.

I then feel counter-cycnicism against myself for putting any faith in Iraq to do right thing, either. I suppose I'd also feel relieved if Saddam and his cronies did take Rumsfield's advice and just run away, letting the U.S. plug in a new government. (I do think that the U.S. would rather topple Saddam's government by intimidation rather than war, if it can; I tend to believe that the Bush & co. aren't so much warmongers as they are imperialists, wanting to take this opportunity to place more outposts of the Pax Americana in distant and strategic parts of the world. And now my inner Lileks jumps up and down about me using "imperialist" as a swear word, when I'm not sure that I am. O, it is complicated.)

It's around this time when I remember that the gov't is choosing to completely ignore North Korea, the one nation on earth that actually is making outright verbal threats against the U.S. and its friends, while it proudly waves its shiny new WMDs around in broad daylight, and I feel even more frustrated and embarrassed, and actually a little dumbstruck. Dear Bush administration: Holy shit, you guys. Your friend, J.

Just keep thinking: elections are only a calendar year away.