colondee got featured on some bbc program and has enjoyed and influx of traffic (and retarded emails :/). to celebrate i've actually added some features to it. rock
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i'm also toying with the idea of adding features to this blog/journal system since it's supposed to be my tech playground. hmmm.
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i was pointed at this stupidly good voice synthesis demo. the british, especially, rocks.
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ell found this excellent site (parodied here) which puports to allow you to talk to geek girls for $3 a minute. It's kinda tempting to give it a try next time i need some unix sysadmin assistance, though i suspect the girls might be less geeky than they claim :)
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a nice photo from back in february at etcon. who were the people in the front? stew? neb? helen?
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george schlossnagle writes about php and scaling in response to the rather crazy friendster/joyce/php/jsp stuff going on right now.
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shopping list: bed, pillows, sheets, towels, alarm clock, bath mat, uk power adaptor, hangers, glasses, plates, cutlery, wooden spatula, stool, frying pan. new apartment is great, but somewhat lacking the essentials.
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broog is excellent - his review of the owen and ben show is spot on. and it turns out i know the man behind the monster :)
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looking forward to tomorrow's ikea-fest. i'm going to be so poor some tomorrow tea-time.
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i'm starting to get quite into flickr as a product (rather than just an api experiment and a time-sink). the calendar views are fucking awesome.
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you can get a plush vince - rejoice!
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jesus saves. pasess to moses, scoooooore!
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jesus saves. the rest of you take 5d20 damage.
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spam of the day: "For example, corporation of cyprus mulch indicates that widow of cook cheese grits for avocado pit around paper napkin.When vacuum cleaner near starlet is varigated, swamp of operate a small fruit stand with support group living with stalactite.tape recorder behind hydrogen atom approach hand living with, and graduated cylinder living with labyrinth throw at vacuum cleaner about buzzard.". err, right then.
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i'd love a pair of these $900 earphones.
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could the future of online and offline gaming possibly be monopolabble? only time will tell, but jc has a knack for slightly insane ideas.
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i like the not-too-subtle genius of rock, paper, sadam.
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this is amazing - visualising delicious tags with size and position [demo]. i wonder if the positioning means anything, or if it's just a randomisation to make the zeitgeist look more interesting.
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b3ta is number 1 for wanking. though, perhaps suprisingly, not number 1 for wankers ;)
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one of the best things i've heard in ages is this guy playing the mario theme on a ukulele. awesome.
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snow patrol are currently taking the uk by storm [sic] with their album final straw, but their first album, songs for polars bears, is a hidden gem. a much rawer sound, but still excellent.
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best description of job ever?: "cranial angular momentum management".
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the mt plugin contest entry form is still online. did they extend the entry deadline or have they just forgotten. place your bets :/
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why can't i find "the smell of reeve and mortimer" on torrent?
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this spiderman 2 in lego movie is fucking awesome - must have taken aaaaaages to make.
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apparently phil is the new jeff bezos. somewhat over the top complements from bobbie.
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sal got pwnd. massive suckage. freebsd 4.10-beta might not be entirely water-tight.
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webjay is pretty cool - share playlists with people without sharing the music. must try it out.
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"chemicals taste better than real food". discuss
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joel has released some of his songs on mp3. i recommend the giant bee song, which isn't online yet.
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episodes 6 and 7 of samurai champloo are out on mirkx. tnight will be an anime-fest.
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and speaking of anime, i'm going to be at animethon next weekend. anyone else going?
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funniest / most memorable line of recent times: "she said she would have invited you back at her place if it hadn't been so messy!"
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i suspect i've already mentioned it, but you should be listening to snow patrol's songs for polar bears. it's been playing inside my head all weekend, mixed with ben folds and the pixies. my head is like an awesome radio station but without CBC1's great "Finkleman's 45s".
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just bookmarking wank words bingo for later use. excellent game.
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popbitch pointed out this nice guide of band-name origins.
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unicameral is definately my favourite word of the week. found a nice definition after i worked it into a conversation and had to explain myself.
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brainbench are doing free tests until wednesday. i can't be bothered to take any, but you might like to.
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this is a nice piece on highly composite numbers.
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tom pointed out this old gem from the hardened cynics at 2lmc. i had a copy of this printed out and hung over my desk at the farringdon office, but did they listen? did they fuck :/
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meta efficient is beautiful - a running commentry on exactly the kind of tech i like.
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a discussion today involved use of the word quandry which reminded me of this excellent piece of fiction from whelk.
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a dip into upsideclown has left me obsessed again, so a pick of my favourites. the book's opening story, hecatomb by dan, and the closing of the book - neil's suburban gothic. but the best piece, by far, it matt's amazing ludo.
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anything worth doing is worth maybe dying for. and stuff. <3
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found on bash: yet another innovative way to get idiots to disconnect.
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good news via salt: verisign to stop being so shit and update atlas once every 5 minutes instead of 12 hours.
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this is the only itunes/mirc/now-playing plugin that i could get to work. it also makes itunes 'always on top' in mini-mode, which is a feature i've been wanting for a while.
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jen, my adopted sister, takes some really great photos of her son, rey.
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jen tells me she's making a bees shrine. that's the coolest thing that anyone's ever done. ever.
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word of the day is 'supine'. i shall be working this into conversations at random tomorrow
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everybody already knows, but pep is really fucking awesome. amazing work.
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the misery for sal continues with two more of her sites being owned. major suckage.
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posted for later reference: a copy of the fight club script. se many excellent lines. i really must read the book.
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this comic was found by tom. it really does resemble me, in a way i'm slightly embarrased to admit. but it's just so sunny outdoors :/
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bash of the day: "jeremy: one does not give miss poppins a 'throat full of cock', you fucking heathen"
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check out my rtf tokeniser in perl which i wrote many years ago and just remembered about (although we now have RTF::Tokenizer on cpan which didn't exist when i wrote my tokenizer).
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stupid stupid pear doesn't have an atom parser yet (and wont for ages - their standards and approval process greatly discourage people writing for it - there's no way i ever will :/) so i wrote one with the same interface as XML::RSS, for drop in replacement (it's going to be used in an upcoming aggregator project).
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bash provides some nice unix command line jokes: "PIPE YOUR OUTPUT THROUGH THAT, BITCH!". "you can stick that in your pipe and awk it". awesome.
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doom as a sysadmin tool is a great idea. the pros and cons section is elightening.
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diane found this cheap pocky online store. excellent stuff, though lacking the vital flavor (milk, duh).
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cat says i look alot thinner than when she left (over a month ago now). i haven't been getting any exercise. nor have i been eating well. perhaps i just haven't been eating much at all.
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konjiki no gash bell is being subbed again. there truely is a god.
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imwatching is genius in a stalker kind of way. very similar to both mine and jake's gne player trackers, this web app tracks your aim buddies' presence over time. i think it'll show how often i'm online, which is a scary thing :/
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poke did a nice big printout of phil's article. it's pretty scary :)
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this isn't london is a lovely london-centric anti-history weblog. see also today in alternate history and webb's now-defunct historical fact.
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episode 34 of gash bell - nyarurato dies. i've never been so sad about the death of a kitten :'(
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i have an ice cube tray which makes heart-shaped ice cubes. if i can only trick women into coming into my apartment, they wont be able to resist! "erm, why have you bought me here. i don't want a drink, i want to leave. ooooooh. to bed perhaps?"
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the urdu alphabet seems to consist of many tiny variations on about 4 characters. i wonder is the latin alphabet looks similar to writers of urdu.
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lea's been going mad over tales of symphonia, a multiplayer rpg for the game cube. now all i need is to get some friends to play it with :/
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jc's dress sexy at my funeral is a perfect simulation of 80's teenage angst. err, only it's real. good stuff.
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wbwii (world browser war 2, natch) is not too far off it would seem. I'm still very firmly in the IE camp.
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leonard's been working on the google labs problem - i shall have to read this more thourghly tomorrow.
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wow, what a weekend. wordmash time i think. elina, lea, brett, animethon, the cooler, spiderman 2, temperature sign, pink hallways, whyte ave, peter, vodka tonics, sushi, unripened netarines, kareoke, cosplay, hello kitty tv, pixie shoes, buses, the pedway, sofas in malls, killing baby whales, no pita bread, lightning, disobeidient children, more than the recommended amount of chins, talk, words, love.
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ubbdev is still going - i just got the email newsletter. wow. first time in a few years - i have a number of accounts there so get a fair few copies. those were the days, hey. 6+ years ago.
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word of the week is 'bacchanalia', which describes drunken revellery. i doubt i'll have the chance to use it this week though.
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saw spiderman 2 again. dunst doesn't look so great with auburn hair. she also has crazy ideas.
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woah - the penny arcade omega collection looks well worth winning.
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a new launch with simon waldman from the guardian: mp3blogs.org.
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the ever-lucid MJD has some advice for newbies in this short video.
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urgh. stupid userland/winer/manila. turns out that manila doesn't support the revised metaweblogapi spec, which is hard to find so no big suprise. but, err, userland created the spec. they also don't fully support the blogger v1 api. a developer tells me that you need to send the full url of your blog as the blog id to the *.newPost method - is this a userland construct or is it standard practice? crazy.
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stupid manila, part 2. in addition to not supporting the full blogger or metaweblog apis, it looks like they have escaping issues with the methods they do support :(
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there's a whole bunch of cosplay photos online from the animethon. scary stuff.
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pulp fiction looks like a good osx newsreader, but i've been advised to wait a couple of days for the 1.0.1 release.
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at $1300US i'm very very tempted to get an eos 10d rather than waiting for the sucessor to the 1ds. hmmm, purchase time?
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oooooooh. the xl2 looks very cool - it takes eos lenses too.
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one of the coolest things about canada is westjet - i've been using them alot lately and they rock. the stewardesses tell jokes. the co-pilot was telling jokes last night. they're badly organised. they give you cookies. they dance during the saftely demo. good stuff
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from a guy who emailed me, confused about colondee: "I sussed it out any way and to be honest I find it all quite boring and anyone that gets any pleasure out of it must be very sad and in need of a life.". err, right then. thanks.
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what's up with orkut this morning? it times out my sessions after a minute waiting for pages to load, claiming that my 30 minute sessions has expired. 4 times in ten minutes suggests i haven't been idle for 30 minutes...
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i'm currently obsessed with weebl's magical trevor. weebl's songs are getting better and better, rivaling joel's giant bee.
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jen's just got an eos 10d - they seem to be all the rage suddenly (3 recommendations in 2 days). it's highly tempting.
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bah. my lovely new ipod mini shipped from shanghi yesterday morning. and now it's, you guessed it, in shanghi. "delay beyond our control". stupid fedex.
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tom found some interesting mmorpg stats for the last 7 years, showing the recent surge for RO and FFXI. bigger numbers than i imagined.
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the only dream i can ever remember is a recurring nightmare, where i notice the huge amount of disorder in the universe - but i can see how to fix it and i'm the only one who can fix things. but they are changing, unjoining, breaking and becoming disordered at the same speed i can put things right. however fast i work, i know that i will be just a tiny distance from making everything work, but i know i'll never reach that point and it's crushing and heartbreaking but at the same time i know i can't stop changing things. ever.
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praise the fedex gods - my ipod has reached anchorage. it's going to get there in time for next weekend. excellent news :D
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"girls only want boyfriends who have great skills. You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills..."
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office access is getting really slow - someone on our floor is drinking up all the bandwidth again. on the bright side, a fiber-coms company is installing fiber in my building and i'll be able to get a 10meg net connection with a fixed ip and 20 gigs monthly transfer. excellent.
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mp3blogs is doing nice traffic. simon reports 3000 pages on the first day, and since the site only has one page, that's reasonably impressive.
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she loves me
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i added all my most active contacts to imwatching to give it a try. turns out i'm online the most. wow, that was a suprise.
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what's up with ie lately? it's clutterbar has always been picky about showing favicons, but now it's showing no fav icons and a mix of the ie5 and 6 logos for each favourite. why is the ie5 version even still in the resources for it?
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this salad fingers animation is both amazing and quite creepy. sound required.
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webpac is incorporating my google search-term highlighter in their distribution. i don't quite understand what it does (very text-heavy site) but they seem nice enough. yay for open source and code reuse.
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who wouldn't want to have a wooden mirror in their homes? it must weight a fucking ton.
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more fedex woe - why is my ipod still in anchorage? it had better arrive in time or heads will roll.
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found a nice neutral milk hotel fansite with all the lryics and tabs.
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keiren pointed me at this indie music site with a bunch of free downloads. i'll check it out when i get a chance.
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the best autoreply i've received to date:
It's likely that your email has reached me in error because you are simply not bright enough to type an email address properly. Kindly double-check the address of the person to whom you were trying to send your email now, and regret your shortcomings.
The technological revolution has left you in the dust. I mean, how hard is it, really, to type an email address in the "To" field of your gui email client? You are daft. You should probably just commit seppuku and do the rest of the world a favor.
If you are emailing the tourism agency for Dekalb, Alabama, you should send an email to pattyt, not patty.
Otherwise, you are either a simpering fool or a spammer, and in either case there are few things I would enjoy more than watching you catch on fire and run around screaming. You are a waste of carbon, and I don't like you.
Have a pleasant day.
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man, nothing beats good sushi. well, except good sex. hmm, how to combine these two...
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e pointed out the sex book to me. it's like a beautiful retro-illustrator-fest of vector art porn and nice layouts. well designed books are few and far between. makes me want to buy a tufte book right now.
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nice hypothesis: the passion of christ was infact a zombie movie. jesus gets killed, comes back to life and walks around dead, sucking the brains out of christians ;)
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pointed out on p6l - xquery uses smilie faces for it's comment delimiters. the current suggestion is that p6 should do the same. even if it doesn't, one could write the grammar for it easily.
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my ipod has been delivered. woooo. picking it up tomorrow. so excited ^_^
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urgh, stupid london bloggers domain has expired and messed up all the links to the network browser. stupid domains.
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jjg talks about the apple store experience and six steps to a better retail environment.
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when threadless goes wrong: today i am wearing the same tshirt as colleague george. and i bet we'll go out to lunch together. and look fairly odd. oops.
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word of the week is saccharine - meaning sugary or containing saccharin. great stuff
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hammond's webkit2png is *really* fucking awesome. time to fire up the ibook and get grabbing.
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the lower mainland had a 2 hour brown-out this afternoon. talk about suckage. a few hundred lines of code lost, never to be seen again. but even worse, two hours offline at the most productive point in the day. major suckage.
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jason pointed out an interesting article on the "plunge protection team", the group who deal with us stock market contingencies.
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how many ways can you spell viagra? millions it would seem.
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on flickr: lots of nice photos of the polyphonic spree at the apple store in sanfran.
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bookmarked for next week - a guide to performance tuning nfs servers. we're using the plain vanilla config at work and it's starting to bite us at peak times. time to learn about nfs i think.
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six-apart announce the winners of their mt-plugin contest. they should at least by slightly fucking embarrassed of the winner, since it basically patches a big problem in mt. i didn't win any of the six prizes, though all three of my plugins were in the shortlist of thirty (i know some judges ;), so 10% of the shortlist was my work. not so bad.
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best pun ever, as i'm up all night programming: "don't ware yourself out". fucking. genius.
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a two page spread for city creator is in the just-published book websites - 100% loaded. pep also gets another two pages with bunnycorp and the citycreator homepage. excellent stuff.
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interesting and not entirely unexpected - a study found that file sharing has zero effect on music buying. duh.
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i quite like train (or, at least, the one track i have), but it appears i have bad taste in music.
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the wikipedia page on surreal numebrs makes for interesting reading.
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i've been saying it for years, but now jakob says it's the official first rule of usability engineering: "don't listen to users".
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further investigation of the if-modified-since problem with apache and php appears to show that it's a bug in apache 2 and the php filter plugin. stupid stupid stupid. it can be worked around with an apache directive, although that also stops php from recieving the i-m-s header, so you can't handle the 304 response manually.
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e pointed out the trailer for undertaking betty to me as a good potential date movie. so long as you're not squeamish about death one would suppose :)
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i split soy saouce on my keyboard at lunch and now my spacebar is sticking. fuck. i'm such a fucking idiot.
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todays bash of the day rocks. gah - it appears my itunes plugin which copies track names to the clipboard stomped over the url for this post. stupid me. i've now disabled it. normal service will resume.
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these figures about insect contents in food are a little sickening.
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mina reveals why gne isn't out yet. very cute.
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mil pointed out a book with perhaps the best title ever: "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists"
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bash of the day: I'm a pseudomasochist, pretend to spank me
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scientists discover the death star. that isn't a moon, etc etc
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plurp's description of gne is beautiful: "It's like the musty smell in a library full of old books written by comical adventurers. No ... wait. That's not right. It's like laying in new-mown hay, on the very edge of sleep in the late August afternoon. Nope. That's not it. Oh! I know! It's like a fish."
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broog's done a nice review of the princess bride, which should be required viewing for sensible humans.
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flashkit is a constant source of despair for me. when i come up against some dumb problem in flash, i sometimes eventually post in the flashkit forums. to date, i've *always* recieved an entirely unhelpful solution, and usually by the same user, which doesn't fit the question at all and assumes i'm making a really basic mistake. forums with actually knowlegeable people (like ubbdev in the days of old) are a *huge* asset for a product's company.
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"If you are trapped in debris: Swear profusely. Try not to die.". the preparing for emergencies parody is utter genius.
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this seems like an interesting project if you have some devleopment slack - building peace corps sites in guyana.
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leonard linked to a nice short guide to lex and yacc. i'm working on a new language right now, using perl and P:RD. maybe lex and yacc in the future if i get adventurous.
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the 4rthur dictionary of b3ta terms is like a fun, elitist version of the urban dictionary. minus the 100 recordings of people saying fuck.
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thinkgeek have an oven for your pc. no, seriously. how cool is that?
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lea pointed me at this amazing infomercial. what. the. fuck.
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this guy/girl has done something nice with flickr - illustrating a 58 part story by picking out a keyword from each piece of the story, searching for a photo, then posting that part of the story as a comment on the photo, joining them together with links.
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a live-journal-type teen-angst-girl started a use perl; jounral, thinking it was a general journal site. funny stuff
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a genius idea - a sock subscription service so that you never have to worry about buying socks again. what a great idea.
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