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Random and intermittent postings about life, the universe, etc..

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Cassetteboy vs The News – YouTube

Too funny – resplicing the BBC news gives us a world where Scotland has set the minimum drinking standards throughout the EU.
Time: February 23, 2012 at 09:29AM
Tags: mash-up, funny, youtube, 2012-02-23

How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/02/bots-seized-control.html
I love these competing bot stories. Great way to illustrate how much of the
modern world is actually outside our control.
Time: February 23, 2012 at 12:26PM
Tags: bots, amazon, books, 2012-02-23

Cron Job Nightly Email Question
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/cron-job-nightly-email-question-898857/
Part 3 of my quest to automate some e-mail jobs.
Time: February 23, 2012 at 01:33PM
Tags: automation, 2012-02-23

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The Mystery of Marie Jocelyne by Dan Nuxoll & Martha Shane
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/882590148/the-mystery-of-marie-jocelyne?ref=spotlight
Desc: Fascinating story. Sounds like it would fit in well in Leverage’s Crime-World.
Time: February 20, 2012 at 01:27AM
Tags: con-artist, kickstarter, 2012-02-20

The Chicken Wing Suicides Experiment | ZUG
http://www.zug.com/live/83893/The-Chicken-Wing-Suicides-Experiment.html
Desc: This is a perfectly valid experiment, and a brave man to undertake it.
Time: February 20, 2012 at 01:22PM
Tags: chicken wings, comedy, 2012-02-20

Old Man Winter
http://hoodwinkfilms.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=54
Desc: Oh this is neat. Joe L’Erario of TV’s The Furniture Guys starred in a low budget thriller shot around Philly, PA.
Time: February 20, 2012 at 09:26PM
Tags: joe l’erario, furniture guys, indie films, 2012-02-20

“Real” users vs “fake” users

This comment in the latest news post epitomizes what ticks me off so badly about the site vs. user conflicts of the last couple years – the idea that anyone who uses the site differently than you do is not a “real” user of LiveJournal. It’s bad enough when it’s LiveJournal, the corporate identity, that’s making assumptions and being dismissive of alternate users, but when it’s coming from fellow users it’s particularly galling.

My opinion has always been that anyone who logs into LJ in any way is a real user of LJ. Whether they’re here to keep a journal, leave comments, or read a friend’s entries they’re all equally valid users.

Current Mood: 😡irate

All LJ-specific tags


This is a not-very-brief reference guide to every LiveJournal specific tag and markup that you can use in an entry. Many of them can be used simply by pressing a button in the Rich Text Editor, but some of them have to be added in via the HTML editor. This guide explains how to use them all with the HTML editor.

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