Mon, 10 Jul 2006
Free Markets and Free Beer (IHS Summer Seminar)
I spent last week at Georgia Tech in Atlanta attending a seminar put on by the
Institute for Humane Studies. Although the
title of the seminar was Ideas &
Entrepreneurs, the focus was more generally classical liberal/libertarian thought. The
lectures on public
choice theory and political science by Georg Vanberg and law by John Hasnas
were particularly interesting. If you have the opportunity to take courses
with either of them, I'm sure they would be fantastic.
For any students interested in free markets, individual rights, limited government, etc., I highly recommend attending an IHS seminar. They brought together a great group of young, thoughtful people. They also provide free beer at a social every evening.
I gave a short presentation on inflation during a student panels session
at the seminar. We were quite constrained on time so I had to rush through a
lot of information, but I think I did fairly well considering the
circumstances.
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Power Magnet Update
In response to my questions about using Lua and
Lighttpd to serve up static blosxom pages, Tomas Carnecky sent me an email
with a better way to check for an empty query string within Lua, using "if
next(get) then return 1 end". Here's my new power-magnet.cml
-- if query string is empty and static file exists, serve static file
dr = request["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]
-- local f=assert(io.open(dr.."/debug.out","a"))
if next(get) then return 1 end
sn = request["SCRIPT_NAME"]
static = string.gsub(sn, '^/blog/(.*)$', '/static/%1')
if (file_isdir(dr .. static) and file_isreg(dr .. static .. "/index.html")) then
-- f:write("cache hit on directory\n")
output_include = { dr .. static .. "/index.html" }
return 0
elseif file_isreg(dr .. static) then
-- f:write("cache hit on file\n")
output_include = { dr .. static }
return 0
end
-- f:write("no cache hit\n")
return 1
