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I can’t believe that I’m canceling my DreamHost account, just one month shy of my 10 year anniversary with them.


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Since it took me a while to figure out, I figured this might be useful to document: migrating code from CVS to Git. Specifically, I was moving modules in a CVS repository on SourceForge over to GitHub.

Here are the versions of the tools that I used:

$ rsync --version | head -1
rsync version 3.1.0 protocol version 31
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The latest social media shitstorm is about Guido Barilla saying, “I would not do a commercial with a homosexual family, not for lack of respect toward homosexuals - who have the right to do whatever they want without disturbing others - but because I don’t agree with them, and I think we want to talk to traditional families.”

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Sam and I just had a conversation that went something like this:

Sam: I think these peanuts don’t taste right.

Me: Oh?

Sam: The “best by” date said August… It’s been less than a month!

Me: I guess that’s why they don’t taste their best, now…

Sometimes, that “best by” date is no joke. Who knew?
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The other day, my daughter was instructed to go get the eggs while out shopping, and she did. However, upon later inspection at home, it turns out several of the eggs were cracked in the carton she selected.


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The government obviously has had this data for quite some time, and no one I know of has been grabbed by the secret police, nor could they use the data to stop the Boston marathon bombing before it took place.

Government organizations are simply incapable of making use of the data they have access to. I have no doubt of that. I am much more ( Read more... )

I honestly thought I would be blogging a little bit more, since switching from Android to iPhone, since the iOS WordPress app is so nice, but I just don’t seem to get into it. It’s just too easy to post short stuff to Twitter, and photos to Instagram or Facebook …

I think a part of this is the belief that more people follow me on Twitter, or are ( Read more... )

At some point in time, something changed on my system that resulted in my printer no longer printing. (Cue a relevant scene from Office Space here…) A quick Googling of relevant keywords didn’t turn up anyone else complaining about what I was observing, so I did what any lazy person would do: I found another way to print what I needed to print, ( Read more... )