July 2010
12 posts
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Gmail Attachments
Why are GMail attachments at the bottom of an email? Shouldn’t they be at the top?
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4 stars! Guitar Break's review of Sun Year Long →
senecahawk:
High Points – There a quite a few to savour on this album including the aforementioned Steal Your Heart Away and Hooker, however the stand out highlights for me are the tracks Restless Sea and Finding A Way Home. Restless Sea bought the album back to a more rock style after the slower paced You’re Sweet. The rough vocals, in this instance, really blended well with a harsh and...
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Ruby - Splitting a string on multiple delimiters
Sometimes you have a string you want to split but the delimiters could be multiple, e.g. a newline, a comma, a semicolon. Using a regex in Ruby’s String#split function, we can split on multiple delimiters.
In the example below, we would like to split our test_string on a period, comma and semicolon.
» test_string = “xyz.123,457;abc”
»...
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Two Years For This
Why do English muffins take so long to toast?
Why are sinks so low? Why is every sink made for an 8 year old?
Just learned that RomCom is short for romantic comedy.
Just FaceTime’d for the FirstTime. It was brief but epic.
Earthquake!
Yammer
When all you have is Yammer, everything looks like a nail.
June 2010
17 posts
Facebook needs to implement photo commenting. Sometimes words just don’t
suffice.
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Ron Artest is a character. This is surreal:
http://ping.fm/WPkk2
Will the black mamba come out tonight?
Just ordered the iPhone 4. I was planning a “purchase party” but there are no more in-store reservations available.
Earthquake!
Really big fettuccine is called fattuccine.
Foursquare idea: The ability to checkin to a movie theatre and the specific movie. Then being able to rate it in a tip. The ultimate friend-sourced movie ratings.
Some finals stats:
Phil Jackson is 47-0 in a playoff series after winning game 1. Since
the 2-3-2 format was introduced in 1985, the winner of Game 3 when a
Finals series was tied 1-1 has gone on to win 10 out of 10 occasions.
In the history of the Finals, when the series has been tied going into
Game 3, the winner of that contest has gone on to win 28 of 32 series
(87.5 winning percentage).
The iPad is the perfect bathroom magazine.
A box of strawberries is a race against time.
Is it wrong to end a date with “we’ll be in touch”?
May 2010
9 posts
Incredible pictures of the BP oil spill:
http://ping.fm/86F1J
Live feed of the BP oil spill:
http://ping.fm/9emlA
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R.I.P. Phoenix Mars Lander. Cause of death: ice buildup obstruction of
solar panels.
The good news for #lakers fans is that Amare can’t sustain 42 ppg in
the playoffs. If he did, he’d be Michael Jordan.
JetBlue, JFK to LAX, is $456 on Sunday. On Sat, it’s $129. I’m going
home on Sat.
http://ping.fm/JuZQV
�The purpose of signage is to be useful, not to be amusing”
April 2010
7 posts
Can we stop for a moment and thank ourselves for electing a president
that loves basketball?
Why am I fighting the urge to order an iPad? It is inevitable.
How to train your dragon in 3D
March 2010
21 posts
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