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Friday, November 25th, 2011
Tomorrow - Saturday 26th November - I will be attending LTArt.NL, an event showcasing Lithuanian artists living in the Netherlands. One of the organisers, Evelina Kvartūnaitė, has been regularly posting "backstage interviews" with various artists and performers who will be at the event. I thought it was about time we ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Hey, buddy! See that thing in front of you? It's a monitor. It's connected to a computer, which in turn is connected to -- gasp! -- the INTERNET. That's the single biggest and most easily searchable repository of information humankind has ever known. No, really! It's great. You should check ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Results 1 - 100 of about 1,680,000,000 for comments
Results 1 - 100 of about 426,000,000 for answers
Results 1 - 100 of about 691,000,000 for questions
It's true: on the internet, there are more questions than answers; but almost everyone has got something to say. How very like life.
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Now that I've got a job working for an email service provider I've started taking a bit more notice of different companies' attempts at email marketing, and I have to admit to becoming slightly more sensitive about when they do it badly. Today I received yet another ridiculous failure that's ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Wankers.
[The below pasted verbatim, including grammatical errors, etc.]
From: Peter Lowe <pgl@yoyo.org>
To: Linux Foundation <events@linux-foundation.org>
CC: linux.com.users@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Linux.com.users] 20% LinuxCon Registration Discount for Linux.com Members
I don't normally bother responding to poorly thought out marketing attempts
like this, but, your last one so annoying that I just - can't - help myself.
Look, you're ...
Posted in arse | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 16th, 2009
Tres bien. Magnifique.
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6h03RO2Wcxo
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Screen allows you to create multiple sessions in which to execute processes (normally interactive shells, at least for me). The most common way of using these multiple shells is via the key bindings to switch between them (ctrl + a,<space> being the most common in my experience).
Often, some windows are ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Hooray. I like keeping up with what my friends are up to, and add any weblog feeds I find to Google Reader whenever I come across one.
Recently I've realised how many of them are using Twitter, which I've signed up for but have no interest in using myself. So, it ...
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