Octopodial ChromeBob Uhl's thoughts on life.Worried about Weapons of Mass Destruction- April 27, 2008 <p> Since the black date of 11 September 2001, many folks have been concerned about nuclear, biological or chemical terrorist attacks on American soil. A retired US Army sergeant <a href="http:www.chiefengineer.orgcontentcontent_display.cfmseqnumber_content1667.htm">dispels many of the myths about NBC warfare<a>. Basically, as long as you don’t die immediately and keep your head, you’ll be okay. A must-read.<p>http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/philosophy/gas-germs-nukes-thomas.html Christ is Risen!- April 27, 2008 <p> Crist aras! Crist solice aras!<p> <p>Today is the greatest of feasts: today we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Today we mark the destruction of death’s power over man, because (while we still die) we know that we will each rise again just as Christ did.<p> <p>Christus ist auferstanden! Er ist wahrhaftig auferstanden!<p> <p>There are a few competing theories of the exact mechanism of how Christ’s Passion and...http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/current-events/easter-2008.html Lisp for the Web- April 23, 2008 <p> Adam Petersen <a href="http:www.adampetersen.searticleslispweb.htm">demonstrates how to create a simple polling web app in Common Lisp<a>—in around 70 lines of code! It’s not perfect (as <a href="http:reddit.cominfo6gsogcommentsc03stl3">one reddit comment noted<a>, he needs to escape his strings for HTML), but it’s a pretty cool demonstration of how Lisp can serve as a rapid development...http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/tech/lisp-for-the-web-petersen.html Big Trouble- April 23, 2008 <p> Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a reasonably strict libertarian in both economic and social issues. I tend to think that the State has no business regulating private affairs, and my definition of <q>private<q> is fairly broad. I don’t believe, for example, that marriage should be an institution of the State (it is God’s creation, not man’s). This has led me to oppose the anti-polygamy laws not because I support polygamy.http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/philosophy/politics/polygamy-lowry.html Giardia Hysteria- April 21, 2008 <p> Those of us who grew up camping and hiking in the 1980s and 1990s were constantly warned of the dangers of giardia lamblia and giardiasis. We were cautioned that if we ever drank water from a stream without first purifying it we risked our health and perhaps our very lives. Giardiasis was reputed to cause six months of uncontrollable diarrhœa; it was supposedly found in almost any stream, river or lake; it was bad juju. <p> <p>Upon reflection, this...http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/philosophy/natural/giardia-hysteria.html |