jamin on August 30th, 2002

I’m flying to Kansas City tonight with Ryan and Amy for the weekend. Hope everyone has nice, long weekend. Be sure to crawl some pubs…

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jamin on August 26th, 2002

I had a really nice weekend. Friday night I spent with my girlfriend. We actually stayed in for a change. She made me dinner and started teaching me to read music. Thank you, Amy! So item number 1: Everyone should make their spouse or bf/gf dinner and teach them something. [...]

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jamin on August 26th, 2002

First the good news. My car loan is paid off! No, not the loan on an actual car that I drive. The loan on a car that was totaled a couple years ago. I’ve been paying it off ever since. It’s a long story, but it’s finally paid off!
And the [...]

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jamin on August 22nd, 2002

It’s Thursday and I’m ready for Friday. I removed the Quitting smoking block because, well, I’ve slipped and gotten back into smoking. I still am determined to quit, but my resolve is weak right now. Keep watching that space for the block to reappear with the counter reset.
In my spare time I’m [...]

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jamin on August 16th, 2002

A coworker and I wanted to mirror a website of a friend of his. However wget -r insists on honouring the robots.txt file, which is probably a good thing. It seemed like a good opportunity to write a perl script.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTML::LinkExtor;
use LWP::Simple;
$url = shift || die “no url given”;
print “Base URL: $url
“;
$host [...]

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jamin on August 16th, 2002

I’ve been meaning to write a JAPH signature for a while, but just got around to a first cut yesterday. Here ’tis:

#!/usr/bin/perl -l
$_ = q&))r 22756 o 636168602 p 627560502275686
47 s 6 r 6160247375 7n4(jd,”" avbw,”46U” (xpnc
gavec&;y/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;$_ = reverse $_;
eval;

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