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interesting and not entirely unexpected - a study found that file sharing has zero effect on music buying. duh.

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.

best pun ever, as i'm up all night programming: "don't ware yourself out". fucking. genius.

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.

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.

on flickr: lots of nice photos of the polyphonic spree at the apple store in sanfran.

how many ways can you spell viagra? millions it would seem.

jason pointed out an interesting article on the "plunge protection team", the group who deal with us stock market contingencies.

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.

hammond's webkit2png is really fucking awesome. time to fire up the ibook and get grabbing.