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/away searching for my jet pack

I now have a new “geek fanzine” called “Where’s my fucking jet pack“. This is where I write when I have some spare time, so don’t expect new stuff here in the near future (at least until the novelty wears … Continue reading

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Geography education for the short-term memory challenged

If you ever find yourself wondering where it’s going to be 4:20 PM next, know that you’re not alone, and that http://is.gd/fourtwenty was developed with people like you in mind. If you don’t ask yourself this question – I’m sure … Continue reading

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The other Dod

Just the other post I said who do you identify me as? If it’s not something publicly known, it’s meaningless. Identifying me as The Dod only means “I’ve met a guy who called himself The Dod”. Perhaps it’s another person … Continue reading

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Muddled thoughts re keysigning parties

Originally, this post tried to propose a where some people would only learn to generate their key-pair at the party. Bottom line, it was a bad idea. I propose an alternative idea (although it’s probably not worth the hassle).

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Disabling couchdb signup (senile edition)

I’m already old enough to have a really bad memory (just got my retirement visa, mind you), but this is ridiculous: I’m installing a plain-vanilla-apt-get couchdb, add a few users, give them roles, and then I get to the point … Continue reading

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Steal this Film – my favorite 2 minutes

In our fast-paced world “Steal this Film” is already a historical documentary, produced in the naive days when there was still belief that legal systems around the world were loosely bound by morals (or at least common sense). Still, it’s … Continue reading

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[once again] I stand corrected

I have written some thoughts I had regarding Cryptocat. Apparently, they were wrong. I leave this post here (to my shame) because some places link here and some people have commented here, but It’s no longer relevant.

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Whatmail: a contact-form with the features I need

Whatmail is a stand-alone (cgi) contact-form written in Python. It has the following features: Supports Unicode international characters (למשל עברית) Has recaptcha spambot protection Fully skinnable with mustache templates (so you can easily make it look like the rest of … Continue reading

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CATS was right

More than 20 years ago, a Japanese game called Zero Wing was translated to English. This hilarious endeavor gave us the immortal  quote: “All your base are belong to us” (related to someone called CATS). The correct translation of that … Continue reading

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Advice to the gitignoreless

I like to have my projects as self contained git repositories, with submodules for all dependencies. This way we have “one git submodule update to rule them all”. The downside of this approach is that you need to have git … Continue reading

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