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Unix and The Baha Men

Posted on December 14, 2010 by admin

I was at a children’s birthday party, over the weekend, and they played a kiddified version of the song, “Who Let The Dogs Out?”. I was reminded that I occasionally hear unix commands in music. This song had a significant … Continue reading →

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Linus on Git

Posted on December 10, 2010 by admin

Linus Torvalds talking about Git. Why he created it and what it does. I, as readers know, am shamelessly in love with Git. For everything. Share this:FacebookStumbleUponShareEmailDiggRedditPrintRelated Posts:Git In Here!Virtualization: Does my processor support AMD-V or Intel VT?Git thee off … Continue reading →

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Making Oracle find the span of a year

Posted on December 8, 2010 by admin

Here’s a handy Oracle date tip. If you have a string for a year ’2010′ or whatever as &tyear and feed it to this SQL. It will give back the first second and the last second of the year. Share … Continue reading →

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Whitney the Wrathful

Posted on December 7, 2010 by admin

Whitney Houston is only a decade older than me, but that really seems like a lifetime in some ways. We have a different philosophy in life. I’m not particularly suspicious of people’s motives. Perhaps I’m naïve, but I tend to … Continue reading →

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Bash Hints: Redirecting StdErr to StdOut

Posted on December 3, 2010 by admin

One of the more annoying things about shell programming is when one has a program that spits the data to stderr. You run that and you end up with spew in your terminal and nothing in your file. Annoying. If … Continue reading →

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codeigniter: trivial memcached library

Posted on November 23, 2010 by admin

Here’s a little library I’ve used a few times to access memcached from codeigniter. Share this:FacebookStumbleUponShareEmailDiggRedditPrintRelated Posts:CodeIgniter: Scalar Variable Attachments

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Amazing Musical Video Hackery

Posted on November 22, 2010 by admin

This requires little in the way of explanation other than to say that what people are doing with video editing and youtube clips is positively amazing. Share this:FacebookStumbleUponShareEmailDiggRedditPrintRelated Posts:Come To DaddyA Capella Molto BellaCommodore SID examples #1How Not To Play … Continue reading →

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TIL: Linux kernel hackers should check linux-next

Posted on November 18, 2010 by admin

If you are new to linux kernel hacking and following along with one of the tutorials, something that is not mentioned as far as I can tell is that you should check the linux-next branch of the git tree to … Continue reading →

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Ciara needs to hang around with different boys

Posted on November 17, 2010 by admin

So, I was listening to Ciara’s hateful misandristic epic, “Like A Boy”, and I realized that if that is her idea of how boys behave, she needs to hang around with different boys. What’s the deal… she calls them and … Continue reading →

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A Capella Molto Bella

Posted on November 15, 2010 by admin

The human voice can totally blow one’s mind. Back in the day, beatboxing was a common way of adding a sound using one’s voice. Here’s my homie, The Human Beat Box, with The Fat Boys in the early 80s. Share … Continue reading →

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