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Noah Slater

York, Great Britain

Web technologist and free software developer

Biography

Noah Slater is a Web Technologist with a background in ecommerce, a passion for hypertext, and an obsession with æsthetics. He’s written for O’Reilly Media and developed software for the GNU Project, the Apache Software Foundation, and Debian. Away from computers, he has a fascination with music, film, and photography.

Books

CouchDB: Rough Cuts Version CouchDB: Rough Cuts Version
by J. Chris Anderson , Noah Slater , Jan Lehnardt
December 2008
Online: $19.99
Print : $39.99 $25.99

Blog

Noah's blog posts are hosted at:
http://shores.tumbolia.org/

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October 31 2009

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"The Middle Ages is an unfortunate term. It was not invented until the age was long past. The..."

October 31 2009

“The Middle Ages is an unfortunate term. It was not invented until the age was long past. The dwellers in the Middle Ages would not have recognized it. They did not know that they were living in the middle; they thought, quite rightly, that they were time’s latest achievement” -… read more

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October 31 2009

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"Your love is rain, my heart the flower. I need your love or I will die. My very life is your power...."

October 31 2009

“Your love is rain, my heart the flower. I need your love or I will die. My very life is your power. Will I wither and fade, or bloom to the sky? The rain can fall on distant deserts. The rain can fall upon the sea. The rain can fall… read more

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October 31 2009

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"Lying’s a vital part of your phycological defence system. You’re naked without it. If..."

October 31 2009

““Lying’s a vital part of your phycological defence system. You’re naked without it. If you can’t lie, then you can’t conceal your true intentions from other people. Sometimes that’s essential! I mean, like, take Nelson, when he put the telescope up to his blind eye and said ‘I see no… read more

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October 31 2009

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October 28 2009

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The Urantia Book

October 28 2009

The Urantia Book: Teh Morb linked to this Wikipedia article today, and I found the whole thing rather fascinating. Transcribed by a group of sceptics, over two decades, and from the unexplained trance-like state of an apathetic man in his sleep, the book purports to explain God, Jesus, and man’s… read more

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October 27 2009

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The Eclectic Encyclopedia of English

October 27 2009

The Eclectic Encyclopedia of English: My new approach to language can be called joyous bewilderment. Rather than fretting about oddities, trends, and variations, I delight in them. The variation and change is exactly what makes language so interesting. I’m a work in progress, but gradually I’m learning to see quirks… read more

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October 27 2009

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How To Write Badly Well

October 27 2009

How To Write Badly Well: Jake opened his eyes and heard the rain battering against the outside of the glass window. Well, he thought grimly, it’s raining outside, and it’s certainly raining in my soul, which is about as inside as you can get. It had only been seventeen days since… read more

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October 26 2009

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October 25 2009

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