Today I learned two funny things ( Read more... )

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28671
"A bunch of Swedish file sharers have got together to form their own political party.

The Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) said that it is tired of being deemed criminals and terrorists by the system for sharing a few measly files for no financial gain or loss to anyone."

Just what we need, another brand new class of patents.

expected value of a Storyline Patent

"The expected value of a Storyline Patent application submitted today can be estimated by the following:
VSPA = VSP x Pissue
where
VSPA is the expected value of a Storyline Patent application,
VSP is the average value of an issued Storyline Patent, and
P ( Read more... )

I thought I had a new job lined up, but that's looking less likely now.

I'd like to find something involving Linux administration and/or programming, in Albuquerque.

Let me know if you have any leads I should follow.

Thanks.

Today my caller ID box shows a call (which I missed) from "California", from the phone number 805-000-0000.

I am, of course, skeptical.

What about the 22nd amendment? Would you mind if they repealed that one?
Google news search: repeal 22nd amendment

Would you trade the fifth amendment for an amendment banning flag burning?

If not, have you told your congressfolk that they are focused on the wrong damn thing?

Make Congress read the laws it passes!

"Hotel Rwanda. Oh yeah, that's the movie about racial tension in LA."

I'm looking for the DOS equivalent for this command:
foo=`cat bar`
Obviously, this sets the value of the variable foo to be equal to the contents of the file bar.

I want to do the same thing in a DOS shell.
Using Cygwin doesn't count. Perl isn't available. Bonus points for using only the tools that come with the Windows OS.
setx /f bar foo /a ( Read more... )