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can't download any purchases in itunes on a mac that's been migrated to? then this is what you want to know - the bit about deleting 'SC Info'. fuuuuuu »« 19:00 01/09/10 | permalink | apple

making fun of seo warms my heart »« 18:58 01/09/10 | permalink | seo

chess just isn't as good as wc2 »« 18:11 31/08/10 | permalink | chess games parody

the best part about this article on perceived egg quality is all the egg-cellent egg puns »« 00:32 28/08/10 | permalink | eggs puns

noting down for later - when building memcache from source, make sure libevent is correctly registered with ld - its installer does not do this. »« 13:58 27/08/10 | permalink | memcached memcache linux install

git submodules are like svn externals, but with the added benefit of being almost impossible to remove »« 11:18 27/08/10 | permalink | git

wrote a little library to compress JS & CSS into PNGs today and wrote about the results »« 00:08 23/08/10 | permalink

part of me wants to see kings of pastry, but i suspect the failures will be pretty painful to watch »« 19:09 21/08/10 | permalink | cake

not sure if 'contact juggling' is really what it's called, but this video is very impressive »« 22:52 19/08/10 | permalink

thanks to kastner for pointing me to this thread from 6 years ago. guess what retarded commenters? i was right all along. see also: everything written on large distributed databases since then. »« 14:15 19/08/10 | permalink | database sql normalization programming flickr

noting these down for later reference - two excellent answers on quora from adam d'angelo on why quora uses mysql instead of postgres or a nosql solution. he says everything i've been saying for the last few years, but more eloquently »« 21:30 16/08/10 | permalink | mysql nosql scalability database quora development

excellent idea - a blog of things to watch on netflix streaming »« 12:59 16/08/10 | permalink | netflix tv movie

this is a pretty plausible theory of lost. explains some confusing elements from the final season »« 18:25 14/08/10 | permalink | lost tv

if you've seen the trailer for the facebook movie, this will make a lot more sense: the youtube version »« 14:09 05/08/10 | permalink | youtube socialmedia video humor parody

ikea heights is great. how did i not think of this? sul should have, at least »« 17:38 03/08/10 | permalink | video ikea

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