HURI|NET (2008-07-16) / About Creative Abstractions

Welcome to Creative Abstractions, the 10 newest articles are below. Keep up to date by using the Atom or RSS feeds. To find out more about this site, read this article. If you are offended by coarse language, blunt opinions, blaspheme, perversion, satire, unorthodox philosophies, political ranting, social criticism, and/or bizarre writings - go somewhere else.

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Life... (2009-06-25) / the passing of time

Well, June 22nd was my off-the-net 30th birthday. It was good not staring at a computer screen all day. Anyway, at least I was getting another year older. The very next day we lost Ed McMahon, and today he was joined by Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Sad losses, all of them.

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Panarchism as an ideal (2009-06-02) / political braindump

Thinking recently about the Omnique Way, and some of the concepts like Voluntary Society and Community Standards. One of the cornerstones of the concept is the idea that you could have a community of theodemocratic communists mixed in the middle of a community of technocratic capitalists. This is very similar to the concept of Panarchism, which I endorse as its own standalone movement outside the scope of the Omnique Way. Anyway, this is just a brain dump, I'll expand out my thoughts later in a proper article. Until then, be free!

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Streamlined Interface Debut (2009-04-07) / site news

Due to feedback on the new interface introduced in January, I've now updated it to a new streamlined version. The side-bars are gone. Less clutter, more what you're looking for. The box is now centered rather than full screen, which should make things easier to read. Since the side-bars are gone, the "random thoughts" are now only found on the main page. There may be some missing sections, such as screenshots, but that's because I'm planning on integrating the screenshots page into a subsection of scrawl. Please let me know what you think of the streamlined theme.

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Windows is the Future (2009-04-01) / linux is dead

Well, I have finally come to my senses. I am tired of all of the quirks and issues with Linux, and am switching to Windows. In the next few weeks, I'll be moving my websites onto a new server running Windows Server 2008, and replacing Zimbra with Exchange. It will be such a relief to not have to mess with command lines and configuration files. Read the rest to find out more.

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Reverse Polish Calculator in Perl 6 (2009-03-03) / From the Blogosphere

And now one for those who say Perl 6 isn't the coolest thing since sliced bread. I've been reading the Perl blogosphere, and found a couple of posts that show off some what happens when you convert an advanced Perl 5 program into Perl 6. The results are definitely amazing.

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principle or pragmatism (2009-02-27) / Jeroen Vermeulen answers

I was recently reading an interview on a blog, and came across this answer to the question: "What's more important? Principle or pragmatism?" Check out the article, as the answer given by Jeroen Vermeulen is brilliant!

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Virii vs the real world (2009-02-12) / pedantics vs the real world

Geesh, the comments on this article, make me realize how pedantic (and pathetic) sounding a lot of my fellow geeks are. Sorry to tell you this, but for the large majority of the non-geek world, a virus is any form of malware that infects computers, regardless of its fundamental nature. The average Joe would look at your comments and say, "Worm? Trojan? Malware? I don't know what those are, but stop sending me viruses in my e-mail!"

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Sharon Harris Rocks (2009-02-10) / libertarianism in the real world

Sharon Harris speaks the truth. I couldn't have said it better myself.

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New Theme for a New Year (2009-02-04) / site news

Well, for the first time in over 5 years, huri.net has a new look and feel. This time it's not just the main articles that have been themed, but jargon, shade and scrawl have been updated to use the new theme as well.

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Poems and Comics, Updated! (2009-01-17) / status update

Yes, it's true, Shade and jargon have been updated! It's amazing. In the case of Shade, I have now finished Volume I. It didn't end quite the way I thought it would, but that's okay. In the case of jargon, well, it's working on the path to 500 strips! On September 15th of this year, jargon will celebrate it's 10th anniversary. I'm hoping that some time before that, it will celebrate it's 500th comic strip :-) Anyway, more updates coming soon.

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