http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog Another Neo-Enlightenment Libertarian Libertine Hacker Blog Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:00:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry about the dead air…I'm completely obsessed with quantitative analysis of the securities markets right now. New material is in the works. Promise. http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/29 Sacha Chua posted a nice list of resources for learning the Japanese language on her blog (I've been reading her blog for a while and didn't even know she studied Japanese), which reminded me that I've been meaning to post about a new Japanese (and other foreign language learning) site ... http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/25 Test post from new Wordpress installation.  I'll get to work on importing some old content (and writing some new content). http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/1 Out of pure coincidence today I happened upon a blog directly related to my previous post. Check out Literally, A Web Log, “an English language grammar blog tracking the abuse of the word ‘literally'.” http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/12 I have an on-going love affair with the English language. I have a vast appreciation for the many ways in which the language is spoken and written. I have great respect for those who devise clever word usages and linguistic manipulations. But in modern language there's a ... http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/11 I am getting really tired of every community-based website creator feeling the need to reimplement basic functions of the web. Why does every site have to have a 'Message This User' action? Has everyone forgotten about email? The problem of sending a body of text to another ... http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/21 I'm in a phase where everything I do must have a reason. That may sound obvious—of course everything should have a reason, right? But there are many little questions in life where we generally feel that the exact solution chosen doesn't make enough difference to even consider choosing one approach ... http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/15 I propose that we enter a new term into our vocabularies: "the personal aesthetic." Observations on human behavior have lead me to the conclusion that every human being has a built-in aesthetic evaluation system. This system is applied to nearly everything in life, creating non-random personal preferences from this seemingly ... http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/16 I can't stand people who can't accept the realities of what they eat. If you can't eat a dead cow and admit to yourself that it is cow flesh, then you probably shouldn't be eating it. When I ate beef, I had no problem with the truth about what it ... http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/7 If you happen to come across the following error while using dpkg (or apt-get): dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed . E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly The solution is as simple as: # dpkg --configure -a --force-depends According to Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: There are two known triggers for that bug: * A package depends on ... http://keyboardphilosopher.com/blog/archives/23