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A Hillary Clinton campaign commercial prompts a reflection on the role models girls see in politics and popular culture.

Creating a Maven project with multiple modules, configuring the parent POM, and importing the resulting structure into Eclipse.

Early itinerary notes from a December 2007 Mexican Riviera cruise, including shipboard activities and excursions from Acapulco to Zihuatanejo.

Checking Java timer resolution for reaction-time experiments, comparing currentTimeMillis and nanoTime behavior on Linux and Windows.

Selected New York Times reader comments on the 2008 U.S. election, collected for their interest without necessarily endorsing their views.

Links to New York Times opinion pieces about women and political leadership, collected during the 2008 election campaign.

Exploring txt2tags as a portable plain-text authoring format for quickly capturing ideas and turning them into structured documents.

Looking back on a year of learning Spanish and setting a goal for a healthier, happier 2008 with better balance between work and home.

Importing text files into a DB2 CLOB column with a delimited manifest and the lobsinfile option, without writing an external program.

Linking plain-text GTD tasks to individual local email messages, using KMail's maildir files to open the relevant message from a task list.

A lightweight Getting Things Done workflow built around TaskPaper's plain-text format, with ways to manage lists on the desktop and the Web.

Using Firefox's It's All Text! extension to edit Web textareas in a desktop editor such as Vim, with UTF-8 support for writing Chinese.

Troubleshooting Firefox hangs by removing troublesome sessionstore.js files, avoiding the need to rebuild the entire browser profile.

Giving a Debian KDE desktop the look of Mac OS X Tiger with the Baghira widget theme, coordinated colors, and Compiz window decorations.

Using Vim's ManPageView plugin as an Info browser, with a shell wrapper that brings familiar key bindings and syntax highlighting to documentation.

Enabling inverse search in Vim's LaTeX-Suite so a click in the DVI viewer returns to the corresponding place in the TeX source.

Restoring a missing loopback interface fixes KMail hangs after removing the mepis-network package deletes the network interfaces configuration.

Using Vim's TOhtml command to turn source code into syntax-highlighted HTML for Drupal posts, with an integrated editing and publishing workflow.

Configuring Firefox or Debian's Iceweasel to open mailto links in a chosen desktop email program, using KMail as the example.

Revisiting dual-monitor setup with XRandR 1.2 to extend a ThinkPad desktop across its built-in screen and an external monitor.