Exploration Through ExampleExample-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick
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Thu, 05 Jan 2006Donate miles to families of injured troops It really gripes me when people like me are accused of not supporting troops overseas when in fact it's the government's poor planning and execution of post-war reconstruction that we don't support. (Not to mention the stinginess when it comes to troop and veteran benefits.) So when I heard about a program to donate frequent-flier miles to benefit the troops and their families, I did. Unfortunately, of the three airlines I fly, the only one still accepting donations (Northwest) is the one I had the least miles on. Apparently everyone else heard about this long ago. If you haven't, now you have, and I urge you to donate. Get a jump on next Christmas's charitable rush.
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When I finally upgraded to Mac OS X Tiger, my old Emacs broke again. I hunted around for a replacement, tried a couple, and settled on Aquamacs. It has a few glitches, but it not only works like Emacs should, it also does a surprisingly decent job of acting Maclike. Some things I like:
It's good enough that I dropped a donation on its author. |
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