August 2009
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Aug 26th
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Aug 25th
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PWND (adj): This lady.
Aug 20th
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Apologize to Alan Turing →
There’s a petition getting signatures demanding that the British government apologize (posthumously) to Alan Turing for their treatment of him as a homosexual. I think they saw the objective, jumped in their cars and drove right passed it, waving in a really friendly way. Alan Turing wasn’t convicted of being Alan Turing, he was convicted of being a homosexual. Lots of people were...
Aug 19th
How to Make Friends
Someone on a forum was relating how they feel they need more friends and asking how they can go about getting them. They explained a failed attempt to make friends at a political gathering and concerns about people with different religious beliefs. I said this: Friends are a subset of people and compatibility, in my opinion, only has a loose correlation with matching interests. You might meet...
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Aug 8th
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Speaking of Twitter...
I’ve heard it’s pretty big in Iran, and they had a relatively unpopular fellow sworn for president having won 2/3 of the popular vote…
Aug 6th
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Twitter's Getting DDoS'd
I wonder if the packets are 140 bytes or less.
Aug 6th
Van Halen M&M's: Really Clever →
I had heard the story about NO BROWN M&Ms before but never heard the real explanation. The truth is that that part of the contract was really, really clever.
Aug 6th
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GRRRRRARRRRRRRR! MURDER!
Why is it so hard to demonstrate to tech support people that you know what you’re talking about? I guess it’s because they normally deal with people who don’t know what they’re talking about. I’m sure a lot of those people immediately say they know what they’re talking about. But I do. In fact, I know more than both the senior guys on the other end of the...
Aug 5th
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Aug 2nd
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OpenSolars limits usernames to 8 chars
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/library/long_usernames/%3Bjsessionid=1BE7FA9181CEC82352B564BE46EDD045 Oh noes! we’z might lose supports for rcp/rdist/uucp. Those are teh internetz! Really, Sun? Really?
Aug 1st
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Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal... →
I too can see it!
Aug 1st