Recently, a lot of people have expressed interest in generating all combinations and permutations of various objects. While this is a topic covered in second-year Computer Science courses, it seems a fair number of people have no idea how to go about generating them. In this post, I’ll provide code on how to go about [...]

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I’m back from the checkup at the surgeon’s. He castigated me for not hydrating my nose with the prescribed saline solution, but in all fairness, I wasn’t exactly eager to shove hot salt water up my nose in the hours following my surgery. In any case, I have to do it now to dissolve the [...]

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So it’s the end of the KDE monolith for me. I’ve come to like KDE and use it as my primary desktop over the years, but everything must come to an end. Never fear, I’m not switching to GNOME or Xfce (which kicks ass), but just going with the split ebuilds. So basically, if, like [...]

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Last week, on May 6th, to be precise, I underwent a septoplasty. This post will chronicle some of my experiences in the hope that it might help people with questions about the procedure, espeically if they are about to undergo it themselves. Last Feb, the specialist diagnosed my chronic sinusitis as being caused by a [...]

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With two free tickets to Chris Cornell at the Commodore, how could I resist? My friend Schmidty and I showed up late, yet didn’t miss any of the openers. What luck. The Crash Kings were first, and were alright, closing with a cover of War Pigs. No axeman, but the lead keyboardist compensated with enough [...]

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