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Only fictional character with his/her own ZIP Code?

There is a neat article over at Techrepublic on their Geek Trivia series on the history of the ZIP code.   It’s a quick/interesting read, and the trivia question behind the history lesson is: Who is the only fictional character to receive his/her own ZIP code? I won’t spoil it for you.  Check out the article [...]

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Moving to Media Temple

First off, I’d like to thank all of you who drop my little blog.  I don’t have tons of readers, so each and every one of you brings a little chunk of joy to me.  That said, after 6 days of off and on network problems with my old web host, I decided to move Whypad.com [...]

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Programmers: Where are they now?

I’d like to point up a blog post by Leonard Richardson who pulled together a list of “where are they nows” on programmers who were interviewed for the 1986 book, Programmers at Work. I find it irresistably interesting to see the paths that people’s lives take. The list is a who’s who of programmers who [...]

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