jamin on September 29th, 2004

Bloglines is a free, web-based news aggregator. It also allows you to share with others which subscriptions you have. They recently announced they are offering Web Services which is exceedingly cool. As brilliant as all that is, what made me start using bloglines is the Bloglines Firefox extension. This gives you [...]

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jamin on September 28th, 2004

SpreadFirefox.com has a new mission: 10,000 new users of their download referral program in 10 days. If you haven’t already signed up, do so now.

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jamin on September 28th, 2004

My friend, Adam, posted the best little-documented GNOME tip I’ve seen in a while.

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jamin on September 23rd, 2004

A lot of girls seem to want to play poker and enjoy home games, but seem intimidated by the male-dominated tournament scene. This is unfortunate because I think that women have a certain advantage over men. I, for one, have a much harder time getting a read on women than men. Probably [...]

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jamin on September 20th, 2004

What started out as a small gathering at Helen’s on Friday grew as people kept running into friends. We didn’t end up going to the South Broadway Jazz/Blues clubs after all and instead opted to dance at Helen’s. Dan, Chris, and I went to Morgan Street for a while and finished the evening [...]

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jamin on September 16th, 2004

In addition to being one of my brothers, Micah Gray is a singer songwriter who is coming out with a new album. Check out his new website where you can listen to a sample music clip. He’s also got a gig in St. Louis on October 1st at The Focal Point. [...]

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jamin on September 15th, 2004

Some friends and I are planning on going out Friday to Helen Fitzgerald’s. I’ve won two poker tournaments in a row so I now have $100 tab to spend there. And since GNOME 2.8 is out it seemed like a perfect opportunity to host a GNOME 2.8 Release Party. If you’re in [...]

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jamin on September 15th, 2004

It seems that Firefox usage is on the rise. If you want to help spread the love, check out SpreadFirefox.com, with a goal of 1 million downloads in 10 days. You can create an account and get a button which tracks your contribution in terms of clicks:

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jamin on September 13th, 2004

Tonight I played in the first Poker Pub event since I found out about it this weekend. A crazy experience. The first table I was at had 3 or four people who had never played the game of Texas Holdem before. At the next table I was with several seasoned players. [...]

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jamin on September 13th, 2004

Since I generally prefer using Perl rather than handfuls of commands such as sed, awk, tr, cut, when I see a post like this I feel the strange need to post a Perl one-liner version.

perl -pi -e ‘undef $/;s/I(\s+)hope/we$1expect/g’ file.txt

Before you run this, beware that I’m using in-place editing (-i) so it will overwrite the [...]

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