Dammit, I have mousefinger.

I've done so little typing over the last couple of weeks and spent so much time simply mouse-wheel scrolling around the internet that I have shooting pains in my index finger.

So, I've just finished watching City of Ember( Read more... )

In response to a CSS question on StackOverflow, I've just suggested that someone give up and use tables.

I may lose some reputation for that... :D

I've never been much interested in conferences, mostly because I really don't have that kind of money. However, I've been paying a bit more attention recently and wondering if I shouldn't broaden my horizons a little. To that end, I'm vaguely tempted by the Usability Week 2009 ConferenceThe only two problems are cost (though I might be able to get ( Read more... )

...but only because it ignores prefix characters (i.e. "@ignore" isn't distinct from "ignore ( Read more... )

Maybe I'm missing something...why do the examples in the man page for tar have double v's? What's the purpose of adding a flag twice?

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Eventually, I found the answer here. This is fucking ludicrous tbh - something this trivial shouldn't be omitted from such a simple document, and if you're going to use it in an example, say what it does there ( Read more... )

Does anyone actually find LinkedIn useful?

I don't particularly feel like joining it just to get spammed by endless reams of recruitment consultants, so is there anything else it's good for?

Mostly a wasted day, again.

I've been spending a lot of time on StackOverflow recently, poking at the odd question, and I am quite enjoying the puzzle solving aspect of it, but apart from that this week has been pretty quiet ( Read more... )

I may be getting better ( Read more... )

Wouldn't it just be the perfect end to this decade, if, after the future began to look so positive for the USA, it is utterly destroyed?