“we have seen how abject poverty accelerates conflict, how it creates recruits for terrorists and those who incite ethnic and religious hatred, how it fuels a violent rejection of the economic and social order on which our future depends”. – Bill Clinton

That’s a bit of a long read, but well worth it

Today is 02-01-02, or without zeros, 2-1-2, also my area code.

Pages like this are why I love the web: Mastering The Discrete Fourier Transform in One Day

It’s a bit over my head, but I kept seeing Fourier transforms mentioned when I was researching the math for Joe’s Filters, and this seems like a very well written explanation.found on Cepstral Soliliquies

Arriving in March

31 times around the sun. Happier than ever.

I posted a recap of last night’s Metafilter gathering in Brooklyn.

A few new HTML link-building tools were added to the bookmarklets page yesterday. These work similarly to Blogger’s BlogThis! tool but are completely self-contained and don’t need to load a page. Still no explanations and that page remains a mess.

Work continues on getting the new Joe’s Filters ready for release. This is taking longer than I thought it would. But then everything usually does. I’m bad at budgeting for interruptions.

My home page needs an intermediate level of content. Currently it has two; permanent and temporary. What’s missing is a good way of showing long-term temporary content.