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Archive for April, 2008

Comic is as comic does

Well, have you noticed that the latest PhD comic strip changed overnight? (I mean, my night; I don’t know the time zone of my less-than-25-on-average readers.)
This is what currently appears on their site:

But yesterday night (that is, uhm, at least 20 hours ago) the third and fourth scenes (what’s the proper English term? I can’t [...]

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It may be of interest to some of you that Luke Amdor started hosting RubyFIT on GitHub. This GitHub thing seems to have really been going viral, at least as far as the Ruby world is concerned.

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So, if you subscribed the Dilbert comic feed, you could not have missed to notice that today’s strip has not been delivered. Just in case you are an avid Dilbert reader (probably because you are an engineer, like myself, or you just have an inclination for geeky and nerdy, and/or enterprise-y humor), at the end [...]

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The shell meme. Via Bill de hÓra. Type the following in a terminal window:
history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n “,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
My results, at work, on Mac OS X:
109 ls
109 cd
46 java
33 logout
27 ssh
24 emacs
18 cvs
15 javac
15 env
13 ./football2html.py
Oh, this is funny! I have used the [...]

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