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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Hello,
and good day to you. I am writing this to let you know about a site I made. It's actually been around for a while, but hasn't changed much from its original (very much lacking) state after I stopped playing WoW nearly a year ago. Now that started playing again, ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
How to use variable variables in bash:
[mimi:pgl]:~ $ tits=arse
[mimi:pgl]:~ $ arse=cheese
# this way I figured out myself after a long time pulling my hair out
[mimi:pgl]:~ $ echo ${!tits}
cheese
# this I found later at http://www.seocam.net/how-tos/how-to-create-variable-variables-in-bash
[mimi:pgl]:~ $ eval echo $`echo $tits`
cheese
# how to assign to a variable variable:
[vini:plowe]:~ $ tits=cheese
[vini:plowe]:~ $ arse=tits
[vini:plowe]:~ ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Interesting:
• YouTomb.
YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
Also: cool!
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
Interesting:
• Play Auditorium
You proceed through the game by redirecting waves of light into targets by positioning things that divert the waves, with the levels getting more complex as you go on. There are "many ways to solve every puzzle"
This demo of Auditorium features 3 Acts. Each Act has at least ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Finally fixed my whois tool:
- http://pgl.yoyo.org/whois/
Previously, it arsed up on most domains due to overzealous sanitisation on my part. No longer! Hooray.
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
## arrays in bash: assignment, indexing, and looping
##
# assign multiple values to a new array:
array=(tits arse)
# or:
array=([0]=tits [1]=arse)
# or:
array=([0]=tits arse)
# assign single values to specific indices:
array[2]='cheese'
# add a new value to the end of the array (push)
array+=(hmm)
# NB: indices do not have to be congiuous:
array[5]='last'
# view specific element of an ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Lovely image taken by Ricky Gervais where "the reflection of the room in the glass makes it look like a giant futuristic temple":
- http://www.rickygervais.com/images/tsott_nywindow.jpg
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
My favourite quote from bash.org:
#734797 +(3215)- [X]
<Malagmyr> This linguistics professor was lecturing the class.
<Malagmyr> "In English," he explained, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative."
<Malagmyr> "However," the ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
I've been having trouble logging on to Warhammer Online, and by the looks of it I'm not the only one - seems that there's hundreds of people out there frustrated by an error saying "Authentication Failed" when trying to start the game.
Thanks to a "rizzo" on a weblog I came ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
If you weren't already familiar with it, LinkedIn is a social networking site that focuses on the professional side of networking. Essentially it's the same model the rest of them:
Get people signed up through a pyramid scheme based around people's need to feel popular and their ability to believe that ...
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