You are The Oracle, from “The Matrix.”
Wise, kind, honest- is there anything slightly
negative about you? You are genuinely
supportive of others. Careful not to let people
take advantage of you, though.

What Matrix Persona Are You?
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Proof that I was at AoIR 4.0!. That's my bald head you see here (the really shiny one!): http://aoir.org/2003/pics/pages/audience10_jpeg.htm. There I am, attentively listening to Prof. Pierre… [Technology, Self, & Community]

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yup, hiding behind monica…. i should look over the tape and see if i have any more of marcelo

Dylan Thomas' “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

so amongst other things, i've been trying to get CDSware working to replace the eprints.org software on the cddc eprints server, that no one uses, but eprints.org really didn't like working with apache 2, so i had to switch to something. the problem that i have isn't with cdsware, which is nifty by all accounts so far, it is with WML which seems to be particularly irritating it inability to recurse directory trees on my redhat 9 system, thus all the files that call other files in the tree need to have directories appended or they end Make with an error, big fun, but it is really a pain, and since around noon yesterday i have been in an overirritable mood….

so once again i tossed my irc client away, if you want to chat, i'm on ichat only until i decide to go back to irc, which will be a few months. why? because the channels that i've been hanging out on have several bots that i find quite irritating, and am tired dealing with them.

other than that, i've been working on job letters a bit, and i've come to see that i'm not prototypical for professor jobs.