Adding to the never-ending adoration of His Noodliness, there is now an FSM hat.
Disclaimer: I am a cited supporter of the FSM agenda, as you can see on this page.

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Day 11 of 365 (Thursday)

Originally uploaded by brandylee

So, this is a bit more risqué than I’d normally post for Hearty Friday, but I loved the mix of the heart with the biohazard symbol.

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Occasionally when using Linux (or Mac OS X) I’ll notice a tongue-in-cheek output message from a utility. Today, it was ‘file‘, a program that uses magic numbers and other tricks to tell you about the contents of a file:

[brock@stilgar][Darwin]-(~/Workspace/RvPacing/bridge/flma2memfem)-> file bridge_w_surf.flma
bridge_w_surf.flma: ASCII text, with very long lines
[brock@stilgar][Darwin]-(~/Workspace/RvPacing/bridge/flma2memfem)->

Emphasis mine. Thanks for the commentary, file.
ADDENDUM: Just now, [...]

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Imagine this: You have two text files full of information, with one data entry on each line. You want to find out which lines occur in both files. Now, if the files are mostly the same, it’s probably best to use a program called diff. However, if the files are mostly different, you can [...]

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Recently, a friend emailed me to ask about GTD. He was tasked with a presentation on project management, and had heard of GTD from my writings and from others. I had good and bad news for him.
The good news is that GTD is an excellent system for keeping your tasks organized. The bad news [...]

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