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Thinking of writing a Google Knol entry for Wood containing ONLY references from popular culture. (cf http://xkcd.com/446/)
| New Camaro looks great (http://is.gd/12rP) but 48 kW/L (specific output)? That's *pathetic*. cf Honda S2000 with almost double: 92 kW/L. |
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| "Press Retry to debug the application." Jeez, would it kill you to label the button "Debug" in the first place? |
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| Finally, expose for firefox tabs: http://tinyurl.com/3aym2j |
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| Sighing at an ABC journalist's use of the phrase "took the machete off him" |
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| Finally: blog up and running with latest mephisto, local git repository. This is DVCS number 3, by the way (after SVK, Bzr). |
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| Talking my mum through setting up her ADSL connection. FAIL! (which is to say, we failed to get it working...) |
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| @fraserspeirs One of its axes should be the percentage of @ replies. And frequency of the word "FAIL". And other tired twitterisms. |
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| Seriously, Internode is the awesomest ISP ever. http://ipv6.internode.on.net/ |
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| Fire drill, everyone evacuates. All clear, people shuffle back in. Then fire alarm goes off for real, fire engines arrive. Farce ensues. |
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| Anyone know the Windows equivalent of "groups"? ie the command line tool to show what groups I am a member of? My google mojo is failing me |
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| is inspired by @Julian_O to pimp his pidgin |
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| Latest office arrival: wine fridge. Not a regular fridge that happens to have wine it, but a purpose-built one with separate red/white areas |
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| Inflation in post-war Hungary worse than current-day Zimbabwe. Total value of circulated banknotes < 1/1000th of a US cent: http://is ... ... |
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| @damomurf No, but I thought it was the same syntax? |
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| Y'know JIRA is definitely the best bug tracker I've used, but its markup syntax is the worst. |
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| So that bad sci-fi retro-futuristic font you used to see everywhere? It's called Stop: http://is.gd/Yu2 And yes, please stop using it. |
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| Sick today. Feeling better after an afternoon nap and 4 episodes of Doctor Who. |
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| Qantas pushing cigarettes is "inconsistent" with WYD sponsorship: http://is.gd/X2j Should they encourage in-flight crucifictions instead? |
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| Awsome! http://twurl.nl/smme2b (via metaf) |
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