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#drupal desperately needs a hot dog stand tribute theme... codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/aâ€¦ 1:33 PM Feb 15th via web

QR codes are a tech whose time has clearly come........................................................................... FOR ME TO POOP ON 4:59 AM Feb 14th via web

@moftasa @Arawyy in my opinion, medicine won't work without a high midichlorian count. Oxford professors say so. 2:40 AM Feb 10th via web in reply to moftasa

1 week of vacation coming up. Plans: implement the unicode glyph for U+1F4A9 in the major free fonts. 12:43 AM Feb 9th via web

In case you needed incentive to switch to Debian stable, it defaults to the old #gnome 1:35 PM Feb 8th via web

windows: eats your data, keeps running (badly). Linux: safeguards your data, but the OS keeled over and died. 12:41 PM Feb 8th via web

@treblereel currently #gnome but I prefer #fluxbox generally 4:27 AM Feb 8th via web in reply to treblereel

@kentist There's something amusing about calling ion popular but I know what you mean 3:36 AM Feb 8th via web in reply to kentist

Wow... silly little #pekwm has been maintained for longer and more faithfully than most proprietary software I know of. 3:14 AM Feb 8th via web

@alaa you think eglug.org/node/1654 still works? 3:48 AM Feb 7th via web

#rip #btjunkie 11:37 PM Feb 5th via web

@ksmikkelsen I think the twitter version of Dunbar's number is way below 150. I follow 7 people only. 12:32 AM Feb 3rd via web in reply to ksmikkelsen

Join me tomorrow in celebrating Intl. Old and Shitty Stuff Day! To mark the day I will be using hotbot.com all day not google 11:32 AM Feb 2nd via web

apt-upgrading dpkg always gives me the willies. 3:01 AM Feb 1st via web

@treblereel :) 1:00 AM Jan 31st via web in reply to treblereel

Both /bin/true and /bin/false in #gnu #coreutils written by same man. Clear conflict of interest. Open source == no checks and balances. 11:03 AM Jan 30th via web

@ksmikkelsen couldn't care less. It's irrelevant. Really stupid laws get ignored and/or changed. Keyboard warriors with a "cause" gone amok. 3:06 AM Jan 18th via web in reply to ksmikkelsen

@ksmikkelsen Why do we care about a piece of unrealistic legislation which has no jurisdiction over us? 2:41 AM Jan 18th via web in reply to ksmikkelsen

"Point of Sale" really needs to be called something different. #pos 2:40 AM Jan 18th via web

Why is the first image in my mind one of hipster RoR devs with Apple equipment when I see the git extension github.com/nvie/gitflow ? 12:11 AM Jan 16th via web