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Chris Siebenmann

@thatcks

That cks. Overcommitted sysadmin, photographer, bicyclist, and other multitudes. I write a lot of words for a programmer.

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linkhttp://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/ calendar_today08-12-2011 22:30:18

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Important note on downloading your Twitter data: All the images are still hosted on Twitter, and everything's in messy JSON. I used this Twitter Archive Parser to convert everything to Markdown and downloads full size images, in case Twitter goes down: github.com/timhutton/twit…

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One of the things in visual representations of the past, especially a 'fantastic' past (e.g. fantasy medieval Europe) is the tendency to skip over the period when mail was the dominant heavy armor, from roughly the second century BC to the 13th century AD. So let's talk mail. 1/

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With the current status of Twitter, now I get to play the fun game of 'home ISP or Twitter servers?' when I see glitches. (Currently, seems like 'home ISP')

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I wonder how Intel onboard graphics compares to AMD onboard graphics in current CPUs, for both performance and Linux open source support. (Yes, I'm thinking about getting a new system. No, I don't like it, hardware is a pain.)

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Of course there is no 'abuse[at]sharepoint.com' so that you can't report that someone is hosting a phish spam landing site on them and spamming your users. Because Microsoft.

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My reaction to the free hoodie that my employer has just gifted us is 'this will come in handy when our offices are under-heated'. It even has hand-warming pockets. (It really is free, our salaries are completely fixed by things far beyond our control.)

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I give a special award to everyone who sends multipart/alternative email where the text/plain and text/html versions are identical. That's not what *alternative* means. Just send HTML-only email.

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It would be nice if 'mozregression --good 106 --bad 107' actually used Firefox 106' for the start point (and 107 for the end point). It would make finding this bug easier. Assuming it's the same bug.

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So apparently Dell Canada's business side are now awfully close to spammers, sending unwanted marketing email to my work address with the usual '10 days to maybe remove your address' claimed 'opt-out' stuff. I can't say I'm surprised but I am disappointed.