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February 5, 2007
change of plans
i had just finished packing and was about to step out for a
delicious tim hortons breakfast
sandwich when my phone rang. i didn't recognize the number, but
it was my friends at air canada telling me that my flight was
canceled! fortunately i could get on an earlier flight if i could
make it to the airport in the next 35 minutes or so, otherwise i get
to spend another night in cold, snowy edmonton!
of course, this flight is a little late, so it was no problem. time
to board!
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February 5, 2007
a learning experience (or: a costly mistake)
even though i'm a seasoned traveler, i still learn things from these trips. today's lesson: having a
cold does not mean you should check the "i have snails, dirt,
and/or disease agents" checkbox on the customs form.
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February 15, 2007
let's drive to allston on the weekend
i finally figured out that aaron sorkin's studio 60 is like a
survivor/american idol hybrid with a twist: the last person still
watching it when it gets canceled is going to get a million dollars
from nbc.
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February 18, 2007
i was talking about you last night
i have a ton of these; i might have posted this one before
brette's party was a smashing success! who knew that spring's but a
month away?
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February 25, 2007
it really is heavenly
i can't get out of my head the idea of Carter! the musical.
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February 26, 2007
i could have been a contender
(or, how i didn't make my millions)
back in the day, even before i worked on gnome, i ran an aol
phishing site.
accidentally.
they're everywhere
this was our squares game, a free
and web-based version of a popular game that had been available on
AOL for some time. my friend was part of that squares community, so
when we published our version of the game, most of the people who
came and played it were AOL users.
i thought it would be good to have people log in, so that their
stats etc. could follow them around, and so there could be ladders
and tournaments, so i put a login/password dialog when they first
started the game up. if you typed in guest for the user you could
log in with a blank password, i think.
but almost nobody did this.
near dupont circle
they all typed in their AOL usernames and passwords! and i logged
them; not out of malicious intent, but so that it was easy for me to
see when i had accidentally hit my caps lock key. i probably still
have hundreds (well, more likely threes) of old usernames and
passwords on a disk somewhere in my apartment. maybe several disks.
i wonder how many of them haven't changed their passwords?
since i was just a student at the time, and did not yet
"appreciate the realities of living in this society," i
didn't try to profit from this serendipitous creation. and it has
me wondering where i would be if i'd taken advantage of that
opportunity i was given, and had been at the forefront of the
phishing industry. probably some tropical island beach somewhere in
australia. definitely not in smelly old east cambridge.
the house that phikenomics built: vote schwan in '20
anyway, i thought this (anti-)phishing
presentation was a fun read, especially its (appropriate)
usability skew.
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February 27, 2007
I CALLED IT
It made me wonder, "what if the governor of Massachusetts ran
for president?" Would we have the "Big Dig Across
America"? That would be pretty boss.
-- me in 2000
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February 27, 2007
don't even start it up
today is looking like one of those days.
the actual problem is almost so far removed from where i am right
now, i can barely recall the software it's in, excepting that i am
so angry at it i'll never forget it. nevertheless, it will remain
nameless.
suffice it to say, it of course has directories which have spaces in
their name (i couldn't find a link to some jamie rant about that),
which of course breaks my cscope stuff which i rely on extensively
to spelunk code i didn't write. which is to say, always.
so i decided to fix it! here's a patch to shaver's cscope-indexer
script, for everyone that has been fortunate to work with someone
from cfs:
--- /home/jacob/bin/cscope-indexer~ 2006-12-20 17:02:36.000000000 -0500
+++ /home/jacob/bin/cscope-indexer 2007-02-27 11:28:52.000000000 -0500
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ fi
fi
) | \
egrep -i '\.([chly](xx|pp)*|cc|hh|js|py)$' | \
- sed -e '/\/CVS\//d' -e '/\/RCS\//d' -e 's/^\.\///' | \
+ sed -e '/\/CVS\//d' -e '/\/RCS\//d' -e 's/^\.\///' -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/"/\\"/g' -e 's/\(.*\)/"\1"/' | \
sort > $LIST_FILE
if [ "X$VERBOSE" != "X" ]
(summary: escape \ and " with \ then enclose line with "s)
of course, this didn't work either since i'm the first person to
ever imagine trying to do this; cscope 15.5 has some bug blah blah
make sure you have cscope 15.6 etc.
at least it's lunch time.
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February 27, 2007
a refreshing change
oh, and did anyone catch sunset 60 last night? with the new
characters and plots it's like a "the departed: the college
years." congratulations and kudos, sorkin, you've proven me
wrong once again!
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