Notes & Commentary

I’d upgraded my site to use WordPress 3.0 about a month or two ago, and until now I hadn’t noticed that it’d messed up the custom RSS plugin I use. The RSS feed for the site was showing zero posts! Yikes!

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My dad just sent me this link to an awesome Japanese pop band’s music video. It was created nearly entirely by Sour’s fans, and features some impressive coordination on their part. Very cool.

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Benjamin Sherman just put up an awesome post about how to get Juniper VPN working on 64-bit Ubuntu. I’m working remotely for the next 3 ish weeks, so this has saved me. I had been using my MacBook since it was the only box I had that was VPNable, but now I’m connected with my [much much much faster] Ubuntu box, and can happily revert my MacBook back to being a gigantic iPod. Awesome!

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I was doing a global replace on a string using JavaScript String’s .replace() method, and I saw some funny behavior I thought was worth noting.

Given the following sample code, what do you expect the output to be? (Hint: notice the whitespace in the string and regex)

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Google’s auto-suggest feature now displays the first search result as the first item in the drop down.

Since the colors in the auto-suggest drop down are the same colors used in the sidebar ads on the results page, my knee-jerk reaction was naturally “how dare you put ads in my auto-suggest!” After a bit more poking, I realized it’s just showing the first search result of the first auto-suggested term as the first option in the auto-suggest.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — After a line-by-line scrub of the federal budget, President Barack Obama has signed off on a roster of 121 budget cuts totaling $17 billion — or about one-half of 1 percent of the $3.4 trillion budget Congress has approved for next year. (emphasis mine)

Obama, I refuse to believe that you even tried.

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This is incredible.

so is this.

Those are so fun to watch. They had to be even more fun to make! Thanks Buck for the tip!

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