Monthly Archives: July 2014

“good track record of doing pretty much nothing, with a vaguely benign flavor” #ICANN http://boingboing.net/2014/07/24/great-video-explainer-vint-ce.html

Today’s Perl’ism: “shift || sub { shift; };” works as advertized.

It’s virtual machines all the way down. http://superuser.com/questions/312433/can-you-run-one-virtual-machine-inside-another

“bash: /dev/null: Permission denied”. Should I worry?

Read this. @cshipley: Losing My Religion. Could also have been “understanding my religion”. http://bubbleandblender.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/losing-my-religion/

Great background reporting by @verge why @comcast customer service is anything but. http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/16/5909591/here-s-why-your-comcast-rep-is-yelling-at-you

“Buy a @Dell PC for college, and get real-world experiences” What? Don’t want to think about that too much …

Misuse of education records. Not surprised at all. http://epic.org/2014/07/epic-uncovers-complaints-from.html

E-mail address: “N.N. Novell emea server (annoying but needed) ” (identity information of the guilty party removed :-)).

What’s a “self-titled album”? One you titled all by yourself? #listeningtoads