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nothing says "professional" like calling a business number and getting "the google voice subscriber you are trying to reach is unavailable"
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fitbit notifier can now alert when your fitbit hasn't synched in x hours, and has adjustable "do not disturb" hours - http://fitbit.jcs.org/
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there are a couple UI things i like in android 4, but for the most part i find it harder to use and uglier than 2.3
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when getting mail from the irs, the skinnier the envelope, the scarier the contents are going to be
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why does ruby gems spam end-users about deprecated functions called from rails? it's like ups yelling at me for amazon using crappy boxes
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i've added ssl certificate expiration checking to http://domainical.org/
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my fitbit low battery notifier is costing me about $20 every 2 weeks now to send text messages. anyone want to pay for it?
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circumventing wikipedia's protest page is kind of missing the point of the protest... live without it for a day and see how much it sucks
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in the history of ebay, has any seller ever responded to "why are you selling this" with anything that actually changed a buyer's mind?
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i am kind of weirded out by this trend of using unicode symbols in terminals - https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline & http://blog.peepcode.com/blog/2012/my-command-line-prompt
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android users, what are you using for generic http->push notifications? notifo shut down and prowl isn't on android yet
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hockey stick growth rate: http://fitbit.jcs.org/stats
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according to my fitbit, i walked 841 miles (1,903,405 steps) in 2011
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"intel operates the surveillance and censorship system for the tunisian military and they probably don't even know it" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX46Qv_b7F4
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ua 674 smf -> ord
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oh, you registered your domains with a shitty, spammy company to save $2/year and now they're trying to screw you? i'm shocked.
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ua 376 ord -> smf
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i've updated my openssh patch for agent identity confirmation on os x to apple's 10.7.2 sources - https://github.com/jcs/openssh-mac
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i've made a minimal cocoa-based webkit browser that can magically be controlled by a tiling x11 window manager on osx: https://github.com/jcs/shadowebkit
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just spent an hour debugging why certain ajax forms would not submit in ie9 with no js error: a <form> inside an open <p> will never submit
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it is sad and frustrating that there are hardly any independent ISPs left in the chicago area that can do anything faster than dsl
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"This [Safari] update contains various improvements, including [...]- Allow PDFs to be displayed within web content" uh, no thanks, apple
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i thought jury duty was going to be interesting but i just sat in a waiting room for 5 hours and left with a $17.20 check
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i made a siriproxy plugin to control my ecobee thermostat from siri for +1 laziness - https://github.com/jcs/siriproxy-ecobee
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firefox extension idea: when navigating from a dark page like jwz's to a lighter one, cross-fade the transition to avoid sudden blindness
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCvX2N-RoEg good use of a cinematic orchestra piece
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my @fitbit low battery notifier is on the new app gallery and is now monitoring 802 fitbits - http://www.fitbit.com/apps
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why do we still have on-hold music? i wish my phone could detect smooth jazz and silence it until it hears a voice.
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the openbsd git repos on github are not correct (history, file add&rm), so don't use them for now. back to working on my own cvs-to-git tool
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ups can finally give a 2-hour window of delivery, but it costs $5 per package on top of a $40/year membership. lame. http://ups.com/mychoice/features/
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if you remember playing prince of persia on a 486, @jmechner's book about creating it is a fun read - http://amzn.to/v5o13X
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retweet  Fight for free speech online - reject the draconian Internet Blacklist Legislation. https://eff.org/r.C8A #PROTECTIP #SOPA via @EFF
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amon tobin isam live was the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen
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unofficial openbsd git mirror setup, synching every 2 hours - https://github.com/openbsd/src
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it's like bikeshedding except everyone is just standing around screaming BLUE - https://github.com/antirez/lamernews/pull/8
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yay, AOSP git servers back up. now merging 2.3.7 drop into blandroid...
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blandroid 2.3.5p2 released, now supporting the nexus s 4g and over-the-air updates - http://4m.blandroid.org/218
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lessons learned at 1am: lion's recovery partition is useless and gdisk (http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/) is a life saver (for the second time)
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so which one am i supposed to comment on? http://jcs.org/tmp/hn.png
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blandroid's new system update feature: http://4m.blandroid.org/187
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blandroid 2.3.5p0 released - http://blandroid.org/downloads
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twitter bootstrap is like that default wordpress theme with the blue header. i'm seeing those blue buttons everywhere and it looks cheap.
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just spent 3 hours debugging x server internals. brb, going to die.
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my month-old macbook air is out having the keyboard/trackpad replaced, @caldwellian had her air replaced due to a bad usb port. boo apple.
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"charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine"
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retweet  Thank you @eff for defending Tor exits in the USA, http://t.co/76wc7EP
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i threw together a site that monitors your domain expiration dates from whois data that you can subscribe to in ical - http://domainical.org
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that sound must mean the air & water show is this weekend
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"arp -F -s X X permanent" to the rescue
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awesome, one of my colo providers is getting MITM'd by a customer hijacking the router's ARP entry & adding iframes to all outbound http
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just wasted 3 hours down a rabbit hole debugging why php would make its apache process silently exit mid-sql-transaction; php 5.3.6 to blame
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when did the homeless people begging for money get replaced by these super-pushy red cross people with clipboards on every corner?
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retweet  9,695 people have told Congress: don’t make Internet companies spy on us. Help us get to 10,000. https://eff.org/r.593
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today completes my fifth year of self-employment as @superblock.
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it is kind of sad watching cars get towed away down my street while their alarms are going off. it is like the cars are crying out for help.
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google+ is just an SEO ploy to get google.com to rank higher in google searches for "google". think about it.
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spammers were having fun this weekend... 292 unique IPs blocked so far - http://i.imgur.com/7fBzz.png
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ugh http://www.jon-olsson.com/?p=4656
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chicago people, where are you going to watch fireworks?
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my fitbit low battery notifier is now monitoring battery status for 200 fitbit users - http://fitbit.jcs.org/
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after 9 months, @caldwellian and i have finally finished watching every x-files episode and movie
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i can't stop laughing... http://youtu.be/OgrZ5Dtsi-E
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i do just love these monthly emails from zillow telling me the value of my house has gone down another percent. a monthly kick in the nuts.
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os x lion finally makes the look of disapproval (ಠ_ಠ) show up properly. clearly worth the upgrade.
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retweet  on this day in particular, we should all say: thank you very much for your hard work, itojun! #ipv6day
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www.sprint.net has the raddest ipv6 address
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wwdc 2011: apple debuts its new version of android they've called "iOS 5"
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i am going to name my first kid Trumpet Winsock.
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vdub owners in the crowd cringed and started yelling, "go at it at an angle!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxxuG2Ru9c
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the caldav-sync (http://dmfs.org/caldav/) and carddav-sync (http://dmfs.org/carddav/) apps for android integrate very nicely
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whispercore has adb debugging enabled by default. what's the point of encryption when everything on a locked phone can be read w/adb shell?
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i wonder how @whispersystems is allowed to distribute google apps with whispercore android despite google only licensing to hardware makers
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trying to find a new apartment is a most unpleasant experience.
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hey we just got 79228162514264337593543950336 ipv6 addresses, and if you're nice, we'll give you... one. http://www.linode.com/IPv6/
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oh, dogs... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUCRZzhbHH0
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my mogwai concert tickets have disappeared, or perhaps they never existed. sad.
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blandroid 2.3.4p0 released: http://4m.blandroid.org/55
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