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Ingredients: some batteries, a deck of cards, glue & a firewire connector: The instant iPod Battery Pack

Bento Blog - or food can be beautiful

Ahh - brings back memories of me playing NetHack on my trusty Atari ST… |!/[)[) +.@%/]) |)?+%)) If I were a NetHack monster, I would be a mimic. I can be whatever I think you need me to be - it might look like I’m here to help you, but really you’re here to help me. Which NetHack Monster Are You?

I have to do some things on a Sun Solaris box where the only scripting languages available are sh and perl. No python, no ruby, no … well you get the point. I don’t like PERL a lot, even though the monks are chanting it’s praise. Granted, it can do amazing stuff, but then a horde of monkeys typing away on their keyboard would probably sooner come up with a syntactically valid PERL program, than with a Shakespeare sonnet or even a simple haiku. ...

When everything is gloom, when your mood is dark, when work seems to much like work and to little like fun. When the sky is gray (or at least when it seems so), there is only one Cure. You have to listen to Happy Music. I continued to rip my CD collection and got to rip all the Béla Fleck CD’s I own. They went on the iPod and I cheered up to pieces like UFO TOFU or my favorite one Sinister Minister which comes with a gorgeous bass solo by Victor Wooten on the Live Art [US | DE ] CD. ...

No mention of .txt files could go without the mention that Emacs is my favorite editor. Tim Bray gives us a glimpse into his .emacs and there are a number of things that I will try out to see if they fit my style of working.