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• Laws of Software Evolution Revisited: Interesting, nothing too surprising, always nice to refer to laws though: http://tinyurl.com/35ryjwn #
• #lightspark isn't working out of the box #
• identi.ca offers a twitter-like API (in many cases it's a drop-in replacement); does it support OAuth now that twitter uses it? #
• Just in case someone needs to get #pino working with twitter *NOW*: http://tinyurl.com/3x4s6kh #
• I'm not happy, an update to #wp twitter-tools make it difficult to use it for identi.ca #
• #align is a useful #vim plugin: Align! –P0l: ' #
• It gets crazier and crazier: http://tinyurl.com/3adwpah #
• Trying out #chromium not sure I'll make the switch due to lack of It's All Text! #
• Tired this morning, cheating, only 30 min #yoga spread over 50 min due to interruptions from a very persistent, small, charming person. #
• Hmm, it runs deep in the chruch it seems :http://failblog.org/2010/09/15/epic-fail-photos-vitraux-fail/ #
• The volume indicator on my #arch #gnome is gaudy! How do I get the simple one back again? #
• Yay, new #yoga mat bag on the way! #
• Hmm, #chromium crashes when I try to delete a post on identi.ca. Fascinating! #
• I'll keep #chromium for some minor stuff (facebook, google reader, …) but lack of tags for bookmarks means it can't replace #firefox #
• Just dropped using #HTF in favour of #test framework-th. An improvement. #haskell #
• "Towards Hard Real-Time Erland" (http://is.gd/feE4L) decent paper, but postponing the really difficult bits (GC, message passing). #
• MongoDB is web scale: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/ #
• If Britain turns humourless then there's really no point to it as a country: http://is.gd/feMk5 #twitterjoketrial #
• Brilliant coverage of the Pope arriving in Edinburgh: http://is.gd/feNJv #
• Yay, another Haskell tool of mine that doesn't depend on MissingH #

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• ? @jgoerzen: The wall that is supposed to proscribe the beginning of America becomes the place where America ends. http://ur1.ca/1i43c #
• This makes me worried: http://www.thelocal.se/28806/20100906/ #
• "Grow up Raj, there's no place for truth on the internet." #
• #gmail keeps surprising, first time I've used "Download all attachments", they arrive as a zip, not as separate files. Nice! #
• E, http://tinyurl.com/38ogjw, looks interesting, something like it for Linux I wonder? #
• Nothing like some #yoga to get me started in the morning. Now off to work. #
• #git just might be a bit more appealing, now that I've found #vng http://gitorious.org/vng #
• Heja Sverige: http://www.thelocal.se/28878/20100909/ #
• Funny: http://failblog.org/2010/09/07/epic-fail-photos-harpooning-fail/ #

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• Why can't I get empathy's contact list to hide in #xmonad I blame #empathy #
• Yay, my unassisted head stand from last week wasn't just a fluke! #
• Argh! I can't get to my kiwilight account today Hopefully access will be restored shortly. I rely on it for ~/ ver ctrl and more. #
• First attempt at John Scott's Beginner Level 2. Went all right. #ashtanga #
• Is it possible to mount an ISO image using udisks? #linux #udisks #
• So now #oasis builds again in #arch #ocaml #
• http://tinyurl.com/24gstof Short nice paper, with some good ideas on writing dependable servers. #ocaml #ssh #dependable #
• Doc author at work just had a helpdesk person point out that there is an on-off button on the back of the computer that refused to turn on. #
• Re-doing #knightrider probably looked like a good idea on paper! #
• So, that's fileutils updated on #aur after being bitten by a missing x86_64 5 times this week. #ocaml #arch #
• Article on trasactional memory, not that interesting, but a decent high-level introduction I suppose: http://tinyurl.com/25fn8t4 #
• Decided to cancel my gym membership. Instead I'll step up the #yoga by going to a proper yoga centre. #
• Yay! Finally I've made use of ExistentialQuantification, #haskell #
• ? @jgoerzen: Interesting (and long) article about Palin. http://ur1.ca/1hhkx Mentions her visit to Wichita. #

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• I wonder when people will stop referring to "windows" as "pc". #
• "You can't drown you fool! You're immortal." #
• Just added HTTP Everywhere to firefox, thanks @jsk #
• Now I've prepared my vote, I just have to remember to send it off. #
• Yay, unsubscribing myself from #cmake ml. #
• Made it public that I have no intentions of doing anything more with CMake-OCaml #cmake #github #
• Något som alla borde läsa, nu när det är valtider: http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/08/24/a-letter-to-my-students/ #
• Everyone should read this: http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/08/24/a-letter-to-my-students/ #
• For UK residents: http://labs.38degrees.org.uk/wall/NHS #
• Is there an example of how to use reflect (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/reflection)? #haskell #

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• #ubuntu devs, what are you smoking? the netbook remix includes cups! WTF? #
• Have now heavily modified some Ubuntu packages to remove the more insane bits: openoffice, cups, f-spot, tomboy #
• Yay, finally gotten some of the craziness out of #ubuntu netbook remix. Still a few things remaining, but much better now. #
• I never manage to get empathy to work on #arch not sure why. #
• It's painfully slow to download #PaulDotCom e206 this morning! #
• I now have #empathy working at work, at least a bit, no luck with using #pidgin #039;s sipe though #
• I really don't like when people cancel a meeting 2 minuntes before it starts! #
• World map of happiness: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061113093726.htm (well, not really a map, an article about such a map) #
• #microsoft really, it's 2010!!! How difficult is it to make re-sizable dialogue boxes? #
• What a straw man argument! I was expecting better: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2010/08/ms-dos-security-model.html #
• Yay, managed to remove the use of MissingH in a #haskell tool. That's always a good thing #
• I suspect I've found a bug in cmdargs 0.2, however it only manifests itself when building with Cabal. Very strange. #haskell #
• Ouch, vimoutliner can't be downloaded from the project site, just when I really could need it Anyone out there who has a copy to share? #
• I wonder if it's the upgrade to #ocaml 3.12 that broke the building of ocaml-data-notation. #
• I've finally gotten around to finding out how to build #archlinux packages in a chroot. #
• Worth watching for anyone using functional languages: http://vimeo.com/14313378 #
• I'm reading complaints from devs running Windows that they need to install a Unix emulator to use Haskell. I love it! #

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• Thanks! http://code.google.com/p/ndmitchell/issues/detail?id=231 #
• Why APIs matter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw #
• Brilliant: http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/ #
• I wish I could feel sorry about Wave going away, but I never had a chance to really get into it; not enough friends using it #
• #tempita is a nice little templating language for #python http://pythonpaste.org/tempita/ #
• The only thing airline security seems to be good for nowadays is comedy: http://tinyurl.com/34ctp9o #
• Amazing about Japanese 100+yo: http://www.gp.se/nyheter/varlden/1.424095-200-japanska-hundraaringar-forsvunna (in Swedish) #
• #git does allow for some really cool things: http://ben.straubnet.net/post/939181602/git-grafting-repositories #
• Yay, #ghc 6.12.3 has made it into #arch testing. #
• This is worrying: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-10820033 #
• Cool stuff, online LaTeX: http://docs.latexlab.org/ #
• Another cool LaTeX tool: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html #
• New version of vim-scripts-haskellmode uploaded to #aur #
• Galet: http://www.gp.se/nyheter/varlden/1.425640-svenskens-boter-7-7-miljoner #
• "stty size | read height width" works in zsh but not in bash, why not? #
• Well, I don't have a definitive answer, but using 'set — $(stty size)' seems to be the way to do it. #

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• #ocaml craziness, 'land' is infix, so "land;;" gives a syntax error, "(land);;" is what you want, but docs don't mention this!!! #
• Yay, another vim extension on #aur that can be removed since upstream releases as VBA; vim-scripts-xmledit #
• Surely it's a bit silly that the username counts in replies! #
• ? @johnnieingram: I'm trying to think how this could possibly be any cooler, but I'm coming up blank http://youtu.be/PfK-UzQ48JE #
• List changesets touching a set of files #hg for f in *.c; do hg log -f $f|grep changeset|cut -f2,3 -d:|tr -d ' '; done|sort|uniq #
• Wanted: a #wp plugin that links a blog post to its reddit page (if there is one). #
• Note to self: the only functioning #arch package for rpm is rpm-org (off of #aur of course). #
• I'm still not quite back to normal after the £566 car "service" yesterday #
• Seriously considering moving my CMake/OCaml stuff off of bitbucket, git+branches is just better than HG+patchqueues. #
• So, now cmake-ocaml lives on github instead. #
• Hacking a bit more on cmake-ocaml; adding simple annot support, not sure what I'm doing though, so likely to not be what people want #
• Many Americans seem to confuse "loud minority" with "majority". #
• Funny: http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired27b/~3/IEM0MNEAkaU/ #
• I couldn't agree more: http://www.thelocal.se/28198/20100805/ #
• Yay, after recent kernel upgrade hibernate+suspend is now working properly. #arch #linux #

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• Finally I've upgraded #wordpress on therning.org/magnus #

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