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  1. I thought I had some cool Mac hacking ideas, until I saw this: spritesmods.com/?art=macsearm 2:33 PM Jan 3rd via web
  2. Google images + various TCP concepts. Rule 34 applies. What happens in TCP Vegas stays in TCP Vegas. 9:36 AM Jan 3rd via web
  3. fetch dog is running, run fetch run 7:05 AM Dec 22nd, 2011 via web
  4. Rob Pike's History of UTF-8, read it in a 'drunken history' voice a-la funny-or-die http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history?2 6:20 PM Jun 5th, 2011 via web
  5. never more pleased to look at the UI today and find a 'Frack Packet' option. 12:29 PM May 20th, 2011 via web
  6. The world's 27 million servers process 9.57 zettabytes a year. That's about 20k BreakingPoint FireStorm chassis. http://bit.ly/lJlPjs 6:03 PM May 9th, 2011 via web
  7. wasn't having fun with clisp lisp, tried newlisp - it actually feels RISC, not CISC 7:23 AM May 2nd, 2011 via web
  8. this pop-tart tasted like spring onions 9:14 AM Apr 28th, 2011 via web
  9. also that the GCC manual mentions that "all hell will break loose" http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Nested-Functions.html 10:01 AM Apr 20th, 2011 via web
  10. I Love Nested Functions and Lexical Scoping! 10:00 AM Apr 20th, 2011 via web
  11. here's a C string function you probably didn't know existed: strfmon 11:05 AM Apr 14th, 2011 via web
  12. got a little over-excited about networking today 6:59 PM Apr 13th, 2011 via web
  13. the last gulp of cold coffee is never worth it 7:20 AM Apr 1st, 2011 via web
  14. Gang fight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaKaGwch0U 8:37 AM Mar 26th, 2011 via web
  15. MIDI: rekindling the romance 1:39 PM Mar 11th, 2011 via web
  16. @_ericreeves wow, great work! 6:20 PM Mar 1st, 2011 via web in reply to _ericreeves
  17. and, lo, the spare field shall contain the value '0x0100' - so spake the 3GPP 9:49 AM Feb 28th, 2011 via web
  18. I think I had a haircut birthday party. It involved this though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs2TfsW_Nc4 6:30 PM Feb 20th, 2011 via web
  19. Watched the Intel pktgen demo on a 20G NIC - got 12G and change. 10:18 AM Feb 15th, 2011 via Twitter for Android
  20. I got my phone to GPS sync out the plane window to RSA. Clocked us at 523 MPH. Fun watching navigation trying to reroute at that speed. 8:33 AM Feb 15th, 2011 via web