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1	Debian Humor: Perl Take a look at the description of the "perl-base" package.	Apr 27, 2008
2	cd is from mars, ls is from venus Enough people has posted their latest history meme results. It's time to draw some obvious conclusions: The top two spot in the listings usually belong to cd and ls The world is divided into two camps: The "cd" camp includes those who has more "cd"s...	Apr 15, 2008
3	What's In Your History yclog: Learned from KageSenshi that, there is a meme happening at the Fedora Planet, that is to execute this command:history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head WARNING: COPYING/PASTING AND EXECUTING A COMMAND LINE FR...	Apr 11, 2008
4	The Wonderful World Of Amazon Spam (Part 3) Fresh from my Inbox. Enjoy. How did they made the jump from J2EE design patterns to Windows device drivers, I don't know. However their guess is not completely without merit. Take a look at the Windows device driver I wrote: WQGHLT. It's GP...	Feb 29, 2008
5	Thursday Silly Contest: Are You 250 Years Old I got this link from a private communication yesterday: Blogger: User Profile: Josh Juneau: Age: 250 Gender: Male Astrological Sign: Scorpio Zodiac Year: Rat Notice his age. Pretty impressive, huh? That leads to today's contest: Are you the ol...	Oct 25, 2007
6	The Amazon.com Spam Inference Engine Have I told you I love Amazon.com spams? They keep on getting more and more creative and suggesting books in areas I have not the faintest interest in buying: Back in the old days, when they told me people who bought a HP LaserJet 1100 ink cartri...	Aug 2, 2007
7	Quote Of The Day (It's Tuesday. You need something to get your spirit up.) Yes, the build is broken. You will have to work without the build for a while.	Jul 17, 2007
8	Which Direction Is Back When You Move Something Back A Week In the tradition of asking the internet to clarify timing phrases (see the When Is Next Tuesday? post 686 days ago), I'll post another question. I am always confused a little bit when someone mentions that an event has been "moved back." So here's a ...	Jun 26, 2007
9	That Explains It (Via James Strachan's Blog) Joy of Tech: The Joy of Tech comic	Jun 15, 2007
10	Document Templates Considered Harmful Eric Burke strikes again with a document template for the creation of essays of the "X Considered Harmful" genre. This blog entry is an instantiation of that template. Here goes: _Document templates___ Considered Harmful Resolved: _Document template...	Jun 8, 2007
11	It's Not A Real Programming Language Until... ... these books have been published: (When I told Dale about the JavaFX Script announced at JavaOne 2007, Dale said: "It's not a real programming language until four books have been published." So Dale started a poll on the breakroom whiteboard. Her...	Jun 6, 2007
12	I Still Type Two Spaces After A Period Eric brings up the important topic of how many spaces to type after a period. I learned to use a typewriter on a Royal(?) portable typewriter borrowed from the English department. It was an ancient typewriter even at that time. It must be from the 1...	Jun 5, 2007
13	A Practical Guide To HTTP Status Codes It's "Let's link to that page" day. HTTPanties	May 18, 2007
14	Quote Of The Day Dr. Heinz M. Kabutz (in The Java Specialists' Newsletter): Migrating is migrane and grating rolled into one!	Mar 8, 2007
15	Follow-ups: InfoQ, Celtix, AMQP, Durability of Pizza I chatted with David and Brian this afternoon. And I mentioned something that good marketers do all the time: They have the ability to speak enthusiastically about their product, repeated thousands of times. And every time, they speak as if its the ...	Dec 9, 2006
16	Microsoft Word Users - Security Alert (Received this from our sysadmin. Thought I'd pass it along.) My Sysadmin: A new Word exploit has been announced. Please don't open Word documents from unknown sources, or unexpected Word documents from a known source. OpenOffice users are safe.	Dec 6, 2006
17	Fortunes I went out to House of Wong for lunch with the OCI crowd. And here's the fortunes Paul and I got from our respective fortune cookies: Paul's Fortune: Good luck is coming your way. My Fortune: Be patient. Good things come to those who wait. I g...	Dec 4, 2006
18	The 45 Irrefutable SOA Facts I've seen the list many times. However, more and more people are linking to it. For example, Steve Vinoski granted the list "big picture" status today.	Nov 22, 2006
19	Alice and Bob and Rivest and Schneier I never paid too much attention to their names until Brian pointed it out to me. Apparently Alice and Bob are quite famous in the field of cryptography. Alice has been sending Bob secret messages for many years. Little did I know that before Alice a...	Nov 2, 2006
20	Wednesday Humor	Sep 20, 2006