serutan: 'I am Nakombo Aragumba, secretary of the recently deceased President Sani Abacha of Nigeria, who was avidly an expert player of the American computer game, "Ultima Online," amassing the sum of 26.3 million gold pieces. Before his untimely death the President entrusted to me control of these sums of gold, in the fear that our new and corrupt government would want to seeking control of this fortune.'
<burtonator> slashdot effect can tweek a bug that is not very obvious in low lodes.
<wmf> right, like using apache :-)
<AaronSw> For some reason I find it funny that all the people complaining PageRank sucks have no sense of design, proper use of color, or clear writing
<burtonator> pageronk is no good!
<DanC> my dad uses KDE (I'm pretty sure)
NetNewsWire License: "This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Washington, but not including the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods."
* wmf has a random idea about Apple releasing 10.2.1 at 10:21
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<Xirzon> little known fun fact: children who are taught science properly will not become religious wackos
<Xirzon> little known fun fact: mirc was the first IRC client with a user interface
<atariboy> what happens if you get half scared to death twice?
<GabeW> you are 75% dead then
Wes Felter: "Too bad these musicians don't grow brains before they get screwed."
<wmf> "look, we can rip off the cube and the ibook at the same time!"
Everyone thought this was Zeldman's car.
"THIS SOFTWARE HAS BEEN SOME 10 YEARS AND $ 1000K+ IN CREATION"
Only Verisign buys a new domain name for each webpage.
<wmf> "we buy them direct from the manufacturer... us"
Wes Felter on UNIX: "Welcome! Prepare to have your mind expanded in ways that no drugs can do, and you get an even worse headache (from what I've heard)."
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Pudge: KLB. "READ THE FRICKING MANPAGE YOU LAZY GIT!!!!"
Peter Norvig: "I already have the best job in the world at the best company in the world." Of course that seems to be a new job, Director of Search Quality and Director of Machine Learning.
Converse error alert: "When [child] abductors are caught and you look on their home computers, you inevitably find kiddy porn. So it is a precursor to this bad behavior[...]"
<sbp> I'm going to invent UKPerl, where all scalars have to use £ as a prefix
mod_content + RSS 2.0 = Jon Udell
I was on the radio; I got Essential Blogging.
Mark Bernstein calls this a commonplace book.
10.2.1 is here. "The 10.2.1 Update delivers enhancements and improvements to the following applications, technologies and components: Mail, Image Capture, Help Viewer, graphics, printing, networking, Rendezvous, Kerberos, USB, FireWire, SCSI device compatibility and includes additional Digital Hub peripheral device support."