The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Sunday, March 03, 2013

I mean, Washington may be a wretched hive of scum and villiany, but …

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Date
Sun, 3 Mar 2013 03:38:06 +0800

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