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Mayori takes over a pizza box, finding a cozy new bed that comes with the tempting smell of freshly baked pizza.

An account of finding British Airways mileage redemptions on partner airlines, using American Airlines routes to locate alternatives to high-fee BA flights.

The final installment of solutions to 4clojure's first hundred problems, with reflections on learning core functions and the sequence library.

Clojure solutions for the next set of 4clojure exercises, with comments on functional techniques and the site's shortest-solution competition.

Learning functional programming through 4clojure's first fifty exercises, with Clojure solutions, explanations, and later improvements.

Getting started with Clojure Web development in Vim, including Leiningen project setup and the tools used for a visual analytics application.

A conversation about common weaknesses in computer science Ph.D. job talks, from missing the big picture to explaining research without concrete examples.

Moving ThinkPad X61 hotkeys and power management from a custom ACPI setup to KDE4's PowerDevil, with changes to let KDE receive the key events.

Integrating Spring and DWR on Jetty using Java annotations and programmatic configuration to build a Web application without XML configuration files.

Photos and impressions from a first visit to the Tails & No Tales cat show, plus a peacock-feather souvenir for Tom and Mayori at home.

Holiday photos of Tom waiting for Santa and Mayori getting ready to be Santa's little helper.

Trying Tofurkey for Thanksgiving, with before-and-after cooking photos and impressions of a holiday meal that was more than enough for two.

A trip to China brings home a wedding gift from Huahai's parents, a special Olympic umbrella.

A playful pairing of photos featuring a winking Tom and Superman.

An illustrated story in English and Chinese follows Prince Thomas the cat as he asks where happiness comes from and searches for it himself.

A short video post featuring Mayori, the family's little cat who loves to sing.

A satirical proposal for an automatic news writer critiques formulaic coverage of China and the 2008 Olympic torch relay.

Fixing a Debian ThinkPad that wakes immediately after suspending to RAM by configuring pm-utils to unload the e1000 Ethernet module.

A reaction to YouTube blocking U.S. access to the BBC documentary A Year in Tibet while viewers in the U.K. could still watch it.

Yunyao surprises Huahai with a scenic flight certificate as an early birthday present, revealed through a few photos of the gift.