Benson's Blag

RT @runkeeper hey @bitly, look what you have done to my shortened url! http://bit.ly/COCK

Mar 2nd

Write in C: http://tinyurl.com/288876 (Via @codinghorror)

Feb 27th

Don’t you just love perl’s reference syntax? print...

Feb 27th

Listening to The Senate; truly an incredible band. (http://senateband.com)

Feb 27th

RT @tara Dear Self-Proclaimed Twitter Experts, please stop shoving rules down my throat. 140 chars...

Feb 26th

Protip: If you use the word “leveraging” you’re probably spouting buzzword laden...

Feb 26th

It snows in bham, and my twitter feed is nothing but people bitching about it.

Feb 26th

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http://twitpic.com/1o0id - pretty

Feb 24th

http://twitpic.com/1o0ck - nice day for a drive

Feb 24th

nice day for a drive

Feb 24th

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Feb 24th

Alfresco’s configs are all a bunch of crazy XML files. XML for config == lose.

Feb 24th

RT @amiel git is the most amazing piece of software

Feb 24th

RT @al3x As if you weren’t aware, TechCrunch are full of shit: http://bit.ly/13RX0Z

Feb 24th

Maybe it’s just “what you know” syndrome, but the Gentoo default for PS1 is much...

Feb 23rd

If you are not using git, Hg, darcs, etc. please do yourself a favor and check them out.

Feb 22nd

I think I just accidentally put in an 8 hour day on a project for work, because it was interesting....

Feb 22nd

Got SVN post-commit hook written to update new/changed files (and only those) to a target dir. Needs...

Feb 22nd

Or it’s entirely possible I was just being stupid. I hate it when that happens. XML::Simple is...

Feb 22nd

Perl libraries conflicting with each other. Suddenly XML::Simple does not work. No good at all.

Feb 22nd

Microsoft: Can’t afford to pay you, you’re laid off. Microsoft: Here’s severance....

Feb 22nd

I forgot how completely retarded perl’s reference system is. "OMG, I forgot to make it so...

Feb 22nd

I believe I’ve found a situation wherein perl is a better choice than Python. This confuses...

Feb 22nd

I feel that Perl’s simple xml support is much better than Python’s. Also, unix...

Feb 22nd

timeline

Feb 22nd

Bloody hell, Red Hat, you can’t be bothered to include git in enterprise repos? And you also...

Feb 21st

I do believe I just chmodded something 666. Which is considered evil for a good reason.

Feb 21st

Wrote a python script that makes a tree out of letters of words in /usr/share/dict, takes input...

Feb 20th

Protip: Your svn repo does not store actual copies of every file you put in it. It uses db magicks....

Feb 20th

Protip: CVS keeps the changelog for you, no need to put it in the top of the file as comments.

Feb 19th

RT @wailinglist Attention Liars, Sociopaths, Playahs, Politicians & Lawyers: Despair.com unveils...

Feb 19th

Poor @dreamhost is having some issues this week. Somebody needs moar hardwares.

Feb 18th

RT @paulandstorm @neilhimself [S] A vip room without wireless is really just a room. Bummer...

Feb 18th

A fairly amusing collection climate change arguments: http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics I am not...

Feb 17th

Penguins!: Should last a while…

Feb 17th

Penguins!: Should last a while…

Feb 17th

http://twitpic.com/1j59j - Penguins!

Feb 17th

http://twitpic.com/1j59n - Penguins!

Feb 17th

Got google chrome running in Linux thanks to CodeWeavers: http://tinyurl.com/delur3 URL font looks...

Feb 16th

Chrome Screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/cs3c3z

Feb 16th

The ability to write a function that returns another function (with closure) is eminently useful....

Feb 15th

At work, when projects use svn I rejoice at their modernness. Elsewhere, if they are using svn I...

Feb 15th

To sum up: Please to boycott http://tweetergetter.com/.

Feb 14th

Autofollow sucks: http://tinyurl.com/ckb77j

Feb 14th

What kind of backstabbing bastard do you have to be to add censorship riders to a freaking stimulus...

Feb 13th

Shortcake!

Feb 13th

http://twitpic.com/1glxy - Shortcake!

Feb 13th

Python’s os.walk function is really damn cool. Just sayin’.

Feb 13th

Writing python makes me feel smart again. I don’t really like java all that much.

Feb 13th

Feinstein is a whore for MPAA, RIAA, and ISPs: http://tinyurl.com/bfcj8j

Feb 13th

8GB Micro SDHC card in my G1. Pretty exciting. Storage is cheap and getting cheaper. If only we...

Feb 13th

Being sick sucks.

Feb 12th

RT @JohnCleese Twitter - The Movie http://is.gd/jeto

Feb 12th

Backup software at work is taking for freaking ever. Hoping to make time machine work as an...

Feb 12th

Satellites become banging into each other, what will be happening next?

Feb 12th

It appears RHEL thinks Python 2.4.3-24.e15 is the most recent version. WTF, man?

Feb 11th

“Overhead schmoverhead!” —Far too many programmers

Feb 11th

RT @wailinglist In response to the “25 Random Things” megafad, Despair launches the...

Feb 11th

WTF? http://tinyurl.com/cl5dq7 (via @disservice)

Feb 11th

Hooray for alternatives to XML: http://jyaml.sf.net/

Feb 10th

I appear to have broken the music player on my G1 with the firmware update. Anybody know how to make...

Feb 9th

Holy crap, G1 tethering is awesome. It just creates an ad-hoc network.

Feb 9th

Hooray for root on the phone, a real task manager, and lots of other goodies.

Feb 9th

I am loving the JF image. Suppressing urge to giggle delightedly. Also, I have commandline ssh and...

Feb 9th

Oh, and maybe a little tethering.

Feb 9th

For now, I will stay away from cupcake and instead be satisfied with things like a task manager,...

Feb 9th

OMG HAX!!!!!!111!one! (I am now running the JF version of RC33)

Feb 9th

Downloading busybox, RC29 successfully installed.

Feb 9th

Finally getting around to haxing my G1. Rolling back to RC29.

Feb 9th

This obsession with getting more followers is starting to piss me right off. If you want more...

Feb 7th

For quick and easy access to webdav from a unix machine, cadaver...

Feb 6th

Maybe it would be better if Java was the only language I knew, so that I would not be irritated when...

Feb 5th

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Feb 5th

After some consideration, I think that Groovy has a leg up on Ruby linguistically. It’s more...

Feb 5th

Really interesting article on regex engines: http://tinyurl.com/yw4zeb This makes me want to try my...

Feb 5th

When decaffeinated I can’t seem to write any damn code. This is no good at all.

Feb 4th

All too often programmers have great difficulty writing passable english. What gives? Language and...

Feb 3rd