Easily Distracted

Dec 21 2009 ∞

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I always get a smile when we listen to this song and I think about replacing a key word with another similar sounding word of the four letter variety

Dec 07 2009 ∞

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Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide. The

cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much watery putty. If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, he comes.

— Coding Horror: Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way

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“ They claim it will actually unleash a lot of investment in coal-fired electricity generation and other polluting industry. I think they may be right: carbon-intensive industries have been worried about carbon policy and the CPRS gives them certainty that the policy environment will be very friendly for them for at least a decade.

— Oikos: Some quick thoughts on the Oz emissions trading scheme

Dec 02 2009 ∞

freedomtodither:

funny billboard: news organisations need to be careful when they post breaking news tweets on a billboard

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“ The schools where 63 per cent of Australians are educated deserve better, and the time has come for all citizens to make it clear that they demand an end to the under-funding of public education, where the future of our nation will chiefly be written,

— Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby in Australians urged to stand up for state schools - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Nov 25 2009 ∞