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  "title": "Faster than a speeding bullet point",
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  "html": "<ul>\n<li><p>Morning is not my friend--and I have struggled with this for so long that I have become all but convinced that I'm part of an evolutionary branch of humanity who stayed up late and kept the fire going while the day shift slept.  Sometimes I think I should try making a career out of doing long-distance freelance work for another time zone whose morning starts several hours later than my own.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>I knew that my iPod had a Notes menu fed from the Notes folder, but I didn't know <a href=\"http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ipod/\">that it did inter-note hyperlinks</a>.  This rocks my book-authoring socks.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><p>The lack of a <a href=\"http://pippy.sourceforge.net/\">decent Python interpreter for PalmOS</a> is making me want to <a href=\"http://www.lispme.de/index.html#lispme/index.html\">learn Lisp</a> again.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Taking screenshots of an iPod sucks.  This does not rock my book-authoring socks.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Have I mentioned lately that I hate, <em>hate</em>, <strong>hate</strong> character encoding issues on the web?   Mmm, ISO-8859-1 characters pasted into a file claiming to be UTF-8...</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>MJD's <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558607013/102-5871968-7526502\"><em>Higher Order Perl</em></a> is out! And I also just noticed Randal's <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593235/ref=pd_sim_b_1/102-5871968-7526502?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;v=glance\"><em>Perls of Wisdom</em></a>  Man, it's been a long, long time since I was last excited by Perl--and I used to <em>live</em> in it.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084852\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://rasterweb.net/raster/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=db0fab74bcb564ebb09295498b892fb6&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://rasterweb.net/raster/\">Pete Prodoehl</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084852\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-23T06:54:54\">2005-02-23T06:54:54</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">Back in my college days I had at least one semester where my classes ran from Noon to 9 PM, then I'd stay up until AM and wake up around 10 AM... That was the best schedule I ever had...\nAnd as for character encoding issues, yeah, I hear ya, try dealing with 5 years of 'badly formed content' in files on disk, in a Microsoft SQL database, and from an old HP that's still running. Nightmare, truly a nightmare.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084854\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=475a543984769e9890f8dc0091f602c3&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/\">Phillip Pearson</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084854\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-23T19:03:09\">2005-02-23T19:03:09</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">Which time zone are you in?  If it's PST, try doing consulting for New Zealand or Australian companies.  The exchange rate isn't good for you, so you'll need to charge a LOT to make decent money, but you'll be able to sleep in ...\nAlternatively, pretend you're in New Zealand, and work for American companies remotely!</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084855\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.thok.org/bloggery\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2545d4ff0ba72eb5d5979186f4b02d85&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.thok.org/bloggery\">Mark Eichin</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084855\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-23T23:28:53\">2005-02-23T23:28:53</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">The lack of a decent python is why my last PDA upgrade was to an (otherwise disappointing) wince ipaq (which will probably get repurposed as a linux box now that I have a Symbian phone with Amaretto and have actually written PDA-class apps with it...)</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084856\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e17949267bbfe21a0fadf1bbf00592b4&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\">Aristotle</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084856\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-03-02T13:28:33\">2005-03-02T13:28:33</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">Have you seen Pugs yet? It's the first Perl6 implementation, written in Haskell, and intended to work out the kinks in the specs for the later real Parrot-based implementation. But it's evolving jaw-droppingly fast. Autrijus started on it a month ago, then the project started picking up members two weeks ago, and it already implements a substantial subset of Perl6. It's like all those years of waiting have culminated in an implementational flashbang.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084857\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e17949267bbfe21a0fadf1bbf00592b4&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\">Aristotle</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084857\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-03-02T13:29:30\">2005-03-02T13:29:30</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">Hmm, my link was stripped. That would be http://pugscode.org to get the scoop.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "* Morning is not my friend--and I have struggled with this for so long that I have become all but convinced that I'm part of an evolutionary branch of humanity who stayed up late and kept the fire going while the day shift slept.  Sometimes I think I should try making a career out of doing long-distance freelance work for another time zone whose morning starts several hours later than my own.\r\n\r\n* I knew that my iPod had a Notes menu fed from the Notes folder, but I didn't know [that it did inter-note hyperlinks][podlinks].  This rocks my book-authoring socks.\r\n\r\n[podlinks]:http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ipod/\r\n\r\n* The lack of a [decent Python interpreter for PalmOS][palmpy] is making me want to [learn Lisp][lispme] again.\r\n\r\n* Taking screenshots of an iPod sucks.  This does not rock my book-authoring socks.\r\n\r\n* Have I mentioned lately that I hate, *hate*, **hate** character encoding issues on the web?   Mmm, ISO-8859-1 characters pasted into a file claiming to be UTF-8...\r\n\r\n* MJD's [_Higher Order Perl_][hop] is out! And I also just noticed Randal's [_Perls of Wisdom_][perls]  Man, it's been a long, long time since I was last excited by Perl--and I used to *live* in it.\r\n\r\n[hop]:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558607013/102-5871968-7526502\r\n[perls]:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593235/ref=pd_sim_b_1/102-5871968-7526502?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#38;v=glance\r\n\r\n[lispme]:http://www.lispme.de/index.html#lispme/index.html\r\n[palmpy]:http://pippy.sourceforge.net/\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084852\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://rasterweb.net/raster/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=db0fab74bcb564ebb09295498b892fb6&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://rasterweb.net/raster/\">Pete Prodoehl</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084852\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-23T06:54:54\">2005-02-23T06:54:54</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">Back in my college days I had at least one semester where my classes ran from Noon to 9 PM, then I'd stay up until AM and wake up around 10 AM... That was the best schedule I ever had...\r\n\r\nAnd as for character encoding issues, yeah, I hear ya, try dealing with 5 years of 'badly formed content' in files on disk, in a Microsoft SQL database, and from an old HP that's still running. Nightmare, truly a nightmare.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084854\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=475a543984769e9890f8dc0091f602c3&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/\">Phillip Pearson</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084854\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-23T19:03:09\">2005-02-23T19:03:09</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">Which time zone are you in?  If it's PST, try doing consulting for New Zealand or Australian companies.  The exchange rate isn't good for you, so you'll need to charge a LOT to make decent money, but you'll be able to sleep in ...\r\n\r\nAlternatively, pretend you're in New Zealand, and work for American companies remotely!</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084855\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.thok.org/bloggery\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2545d4ff0ba72eb5d5979186f4b02d85&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.thok.org/bloggery\">Mark Eichin</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084855\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-23T23:28:53\">2005-02-23T23:28:53</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">The lack of a decent python is why my last PDA upgrade was to an (otherwise disappointing) wince ipaq (which will probably get repurposed as a linux box now that I have a Symbian phone with Amaretto and have actually written PDA-class apps with it...)</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084856\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e17949267bbfe21a0fadf1bbf00592b4&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\">Aristotle</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084856\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-03-02T13:28:33\">2005-03-02T13:28:33</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">Have you seen Pugs yet? It's the first Perl6 implementation, written in Haskell, and intended to work out the kinks in the specs for the later real Parrot-based implementation. But it's evolving jaw-droppingly fast. Autrijus started on it a month ago, then the project started picking up members two weeks ago, and it already implements a substantial subset of Perl6. It's like all those years of waiting have culminated in an implementational flashbang.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084857\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e17949267bbfe21a0fadf1bbf00592b4&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\">Aristotle</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084857\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-03-02T13:29:30\">2005-03-02T13:29:30</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">Hmm, my link was stripped. That would be http://pugscode.org to get the scoop.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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