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You know, its not too soon to start thinking about christmas presents. And to make it easier on all of you who are dyeing to know what to get me, I'll save you some time: FPV RC Racer.

The clock is ticking...

Posted by Pedro Melo at 12:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (view)

I was checking something in the Wordpress site:

melo@MrTray:melo $ lwp-request -U -s -S -e  -m HEAD http://www.wordpress.com/
HEAD http://wordpress.com/
User-Agent: lwp-request/2.08

HEAD http://www.wordpress.com/ --> 301 Moved Permanently
HEAD http://wordpress.com/ --> 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 10:48:28 GMT
Server: nginx/0.6.29
Vary: Cookie
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Client-Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 10:48:36 GMT
Client-Peer: 72.232.101.43:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Hacker: If you're reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
X-Pingback: http://wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php

Nice way to do job hunting.

Posted by Pedro Melo at 11:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (view)

From The economics of high-end prostitutes:

Spitzer spent more than $80,000 on high-end prostitutes in one year. That's a lot of bank withdrawals.

I would say that its a lot of deposits, but hey.

Posted by Pedro Melo at 11:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (view)

So the IETF has a solution for all our bandwidth problems, taking us back to 2000 levels.

No, its not a super-chip design for a mega-hiper-refixe-router, its something that you can find installed on most PCs and Macs.

But fear not, as you can read at the bottom of the article, the porn industry is well aware of the technology and they will take care of bringing us back to the future in no time.

Posted by Pedro Melo at 06:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (view)

So the IETF has a solution for all our bandwidth problems, taking us back to 2000 levels.

No, its not a super-chip design for a mega-hiper-refixe-router, its something that you can find installed on most PCs and Macs.

But fear not, as you can read at the bottom of the article, the porn industry is well aware of the technology and they will take care of bringing us back to the future in no time.

Posted by Pedro Melo at 06:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (view)

Well, the good news is that he can mary and get divorced two or three times now.

Update: for those who where wondering what Net::XMPP2 has to do with all this, lets just say that copy&paste are two techniques that I seem not to have mastered yet.

Posted by Pedro Melo at 12:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (view)

Ok, this way cool.

As such, the JSR-666 expert group recommends the introduction of the yoda code-word to the Java language. This keyword commands that the virtual machine "Do, or do not", where there is no corresponding try.

[...]

Warning: the yoda keyword should only be used in places where the presence of an exception would indicate the Java Runtime Environment is misconfigured or broken. Misusing the keyword may cause a great disturbance in the Virtual Machine, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

I so want this in Perl.

Posted by Pedro Melo at 11:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (view)