Monthly Archives: February 2007

If you simply must have it

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Nathan Powell

For people who simply must have the ‘++’ operator in their language, I wrote one for ruby. def plusplus(n) lambda {n += 1} end puts plusplus(3).call Feel free to use it, as I release the above under the Glorious Peoples … Continue reading →

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Grabbing import exceptions

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Nathan Powell

I have a problem. I need to admit it. I can’t read anything without then chasing the information down all over the internet. It’s bad. :) Yesterday, against my better judgment, I was reading John’s blog. The post was about … Continue reading →

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Of all the stupid *NIX crap

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Apparently, crontab -r deletes your crontab. ‘r’ just happens to be beside ‘e’. So if you are going to edit the crontab, and you hit -r, you are screwed…/me grumbles and heads off to find a backup.

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For those of you that don’t read comments | Yahoo Pipes

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Nathan Powell

For those of you who don’t read the comments here (shame on you, the people that read this blog are a lot smarter than me and say much more poignant things than I) I think this comment deserves a post … Continue reading →

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Bash tip

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Not sure if I posted this before, but I was just using one of my favorite Bash tricks and I thought I would post it here. Often for testing or whatever I will need to make a bunch of dummy … Continue reading →

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C25K: Week 3 Day 1

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Nathan Powell

I missed running yesterday to attend a lunch at work, so that was going to put the squeeze on my running for the week if I missed today due to weather. And the guy I run with would really have … Continue reading →

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Dubner

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Dubner, the writer half of Freakonomics is a goof. The freakonomics blog is littered with his worthless posts. Basically, at least it appears to me, he’s riding the coat tails of his talented partner, Levitt. His posts aren’t interesting or … Continue reading →

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Uncle

Posted on February 11, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Round one, tobacco companies 1, Nathan 0. That sucked way more than I want to begin to talk about. I lost this one. I know I have to quit, I am just not sure how I am going to do … Continue reading →

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10 Hours

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Well I was right so far. Man does this suck :) The lozenges do help somewhat. They are keeping the addiction withdraw symptoms at a low roar. I have eaten three of them so far. If it wasn’t actually happening … Continue reading →

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C25K: Week 2 Day 3

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Good run today. Legs felt good, ran a good pace. I pushed it a little more today and it felt good, however I didn’t have much left at the end so I think I might have gone a little too … Continue reading →

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