I teach someone something about French: "Déjà Vu is French for 'Already Seen' and Jamais Vu is French for 'Never Seen', if you didn't know that already."
Matt is bald as of yesterday. I think it looks good.
Our bank account is overdrawn by $268. I thought I had worked all of this out to make sure I had the monkey for all the things I was paying, but I guess I didn't. Maybe I forgot to account for the $300 insurance payment that was deducted on the 11th.
There is actually a two-page O'Reilly book entitled True in a nutshell. Do people really need this? Who has actually bought a copy of this? Why? [update: as Josh pointed out, this book doesn't actually exist. It is merely a joke.]
French Pronunciation: "If you follow the guidelines given [...] and still find it difficult to affect a French accent, try the following rules of thumb: 1) Keep stress even within the word. French is much more lightly accented than English. 2) Act as if you own the world."
Some useful French phrases: "'Stop Bothering me!' 'Parle à mon cul, ma tête est malade' (parl a mon cul, ma teht eh ma - lahd." This actually doesn't translate to "Stop bothering me" but instead to "Talk to my ass, my head is sick".
Calling all Y'alls: "One Texan added that there 'ain't no sense in wasting the energy making up two differ'nt words, is there?'"
snowdrop is an application (for Unixes) that embeds a watermark into a standard, plain text document. It does this by changing whitespace, altering punctuation, and replacing some words with other words (based on a dictionary provided by the user). I played with it a little bit and found it to be very interesting. The concept, alone, is incredibly fascinating.
Liquid War is a very unique computer game (for Linux, Windows, and DOS). You are a puddle of water. Your goal is to eat all the water that is a different color than you. Single player mode is fun, but easy, after a while, as the computer isn't that smart. It also features network play, which I have only played twice. If anyone installs this and enjoys it, let me know and maybe we can meet up for a few rounds.
By (ab)using LD_PRELOAD, TransConnet (for Linux) is capable of proxying almost any network aware application thought an HTTP proxy that support the CONNECT feature. I cannot be held responsible for any holes you poke in your corporate network with the use of this application.
