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		<title>My 20% project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I was at Google, I think my 20% project would be adding voice support to Google Calendar. It would be pretty sweet to be able to press a button on my phone and say &#8220;February 3rd, 3PM, doctor&#8217;s appointment, remind 1 hour&#8221;. It would read back what it heard and you&#8217;d say &#8220;confirm&#8221; to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/07/24/my-20-project/</link>
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		<title>Comcast abusing DNS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize I&#8217;m probably way late to the game here, but for whatever reason I did not notice this problem until today. Comcast has started responding to bogus DNS requests, sending people to some crap-tastic search portal.
Up until now Comcast hasn&#8217;t given me too much to complain about. The service is reliable, the speed is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/07/17/comcast-abusing-dns/</link>
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		<title>OpenOffice Calc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The spreadsheet that manages to turn this CSV field:
"Foo \"Bar\""
into:
Foo \Bar\""
??? I guess the &#8220;standard&#8221; way to quote a &#8221; is with another &#8220;, but even so, how did it manage to mangle the text like this?
Argh. I see that Wordpress and/or Firefox smarted up my quotes. I just can&#8217;t win today.
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		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/06/03/openoffice-calc/</link>
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		<title>T-Mobile &#8220;instant service&#8221; fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[T-Mobile made the unfathomable choice to discontinue e-mail support, instead requiring users to go to live chat. However, you wouldn&#8217;t know this when visiting their support page:

Chat with Customer Care Specialist &#62;
Fill out a quick form to chat live with one of our specialists. If all agents are busy, you can even send us an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/05/20/t-mobile-instant-service-fail/</link>
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		<title>Meucci Solutions can go straight to hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They keep calling our office, every line we have. I guess they&#8217;re some anti-fraud service, but they use telemarketing, which makes them scum. Double scum for trying to reach us like this four times today. (Of course, when you pick up the line, there&#8217;s nobody on the other end, so it&#8217;s completely ineffective anyway.)
(AKA: MeucciSolutions, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/05/13/meucci-solutions-can-go-straight-to-hell/</link>
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		<title>Apple MagSafe power supplies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pox on Apple MagSafe designers. MagSafe is pretty awesome in general, but Apple uses the same plug for both their 60W and 85W power supplies. Unbeknownst to me, I had been using a 60W power supply from a Macbook to power my MBP. It wasn&#8217;t until I saw scorch marks on the power cable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/05/09/apple-magsafe-power-supplies/</link>
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		<title>Paypal = lame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, Paypal wouldn&#8217;t let Esther add her credit card to her account. She and I both have the same card number (of course).
So, I called Paypal. They have one of those horrible voice activated systems. They ask you to enter or say your phone number (even though you&#8217;re calling from a phone and they could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/04/04/paypal-lame/</link>
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		<title>flock before execve?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m seeing some funky &#8220;new&#8221; (to me) behavior that I&#8217;m having trouble tracking down. Maybe y&#8217;all have seen it before. Using kernel 2.6.18-6-686 (debian etch), I can have a shell script open in vi, and suspend vi to run it. But on 2.6.26-1-686 (debian lenny) I get this error:

host:~/dir# ./shellscript -foo
-bash: ./shellscript: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/03/13/flock-before-execve/</link>
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		<title>Got married</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official. Esther and I are now married. We don&#8217;t have any photos from the wedding (on our cameras), but it&#8217;s assured that we will be receiving digital pictures of us in various staged and unstaged poses. When we do, we&#8217;ll post them somewhere.
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		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/01/25/got-married/</link>
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		<title>seq? come on.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[seq is a handy tool if you want a list of numbers:

$ seq 1 4
1
2
3
4

But then they had to go and try to be fancy:

$ seq 1000000 1000010
1e+06
1e+06
1e+06
1e+06
1e+06
1e+06
1.00001e+06
1.00001e+06
1.00001e+06
1.00001e+06
1.00001e+06

What the fuck. (The &#8220;fix&#8221; is to use seq -f %.f)
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		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/01/09/seq-come-on/</link>
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		<title>wtf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Complaining about captchas may be passé, but come on! This is fucking awful.
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		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/10/20/wtf/</link>
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		<title>Fantastic Contraption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This game is damn neat. It&#8217;s fun to build up a giant tank, total overkill, and then watch it fail because you missed a strut or something. It&#8217;s equally fun to build something small and basic: I thought for sure that this contraption would fail. (It certainly didn&#8217;t work the way I had planned.)
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		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/10/01/fantastic-contraption/</link>
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		<title>Spore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing Spore most nights since it arrived. I&#8217;ve played from the Cellular stage all the way through the Space stage. I think it is fair to say that I&#8217;ve seen everything that the game offers, and I find it very limited. I&#8217;m in full agreement with Yahtzee&#8217;s review of Spore and I will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/09/20/spore/</link>
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		<title>In Front of our Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are 4 or 5 people in front of our office surrounding a plastic bag full of clothing, yelling about what specific items they need while they grab them and put them on, in addition to yelling about what items they already have. It&#8217;s entirely normal for there to be people yelling in front of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/09/09/in-front-of-our-office/</link>
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		<title>Correlation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Naturally, we monitor our traffic very closely, watching for any major dips. When there are dips, we try to explain them somehow. Often the dips correspond to external factors such as holidays. For example: traffic is particularly low on Christmas. No surprise there.
Last midnight UTC (2008-09-04 00:00:00) traffic to our gay site plummeted, while traffic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/09/03/correlation/</link>
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		<title>Ron Sims and the Bus Wraps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Times today: Sims proposes bringing back bus-wrap ads.

Sims now proposes that the council allow partial-wrap ads that would leave a 15-inch band of glass unobstructed. &#8220;If that provision is repealed, Metro would like to sell a limited number of partial-wrap buses,&#8221; [Sharron] Shinbo said.
She said Metro estimates it would make $275,000 in 2009 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/08/31/ron-sims-and-the-bus-wraps/</link>
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		<title>Brief Rant: The Videoification of the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alternative title: Screw the deaf and blind. Second alternative title: Screw the people at work who don&#8217;t have time to watch an entire video.
Digg&#8217;s starting a series of &#8220;dialoggs&#8221;, where they solicit questions from the digg population in text form. Then they ask a random assortment of the top voted questions and the interviewee responds. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/08/29/the-videoification-of-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Freedom From Religion Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Seattle Times cover story today is about FFRF&#8217;s billboard located in Capitol Hill. However, I don&#8217;t think this photo is doing them any favors. I call that pose &#8220;Full Contempt&#8221;, although Zoolander would come up with a better name for it.
With apologies to Mike Christensen, I am guessing it was just bad timing.
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		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/08/27/freedom-from-religion-foundation/</link>
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		<title>Gettin&#8217; married</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
  
    
  
  Esther and David at some overlook in the North Cascades

After a year and a half together, Esther and I are getting married. The number one decision to make is the place, since it leads us to picking a time and scheduling food and licensing and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/08/24/gettin-married/</link>
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		<title>Macs Make Everything Easier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seen while attempting to repair a disk&#8230;
2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700:
2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: Disk Utility stopped repairing “disk1s3” because the following error was encountered:
Filesystem verify or repair failed.
2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: 
That was the entire error, datestamps scattered around exactly like that. Steve Jobs would be rolling over in his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/08/09/macs-make-everything-easier/</link>
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		<title>Rounding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve learned something today. Apparently, there&#8217;s more than one way to round a number. There&#8217;s the easy, &#8220;common&#8221; method that everyone learns, where you simply look at the digits you want to zero-out, and if the first digit is &#62;= 5 you round up, and &#60;= 4 you round down.
And then there&#8217;s the number-nerd way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/07/31/rounding/</link>
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		<title>Good timing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelmanskiy and 125 other soldiers assigned to Fort Lewis&#8217; newest Stryker Brigade Combat Team are part of a new program to teach soldiers rudimentary Arabic. The idea is that once deployed to Iraq, they&#8217;ll be able to communicate with local Iraqis to help their units better distinguish between allies and enemies.
Fort Lewis soldiers learn Arabic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/07/28/good-timing/</link>
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		<title>perl, string compare, dprof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may be old news for people more familiar with perl internals.

dpk@dpk1:~$ perl -version &#124; head -2

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
dpk@dpk1:~$ cat test1.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $x = 0;
while ($x &#60; 100)
{
  &#038;doit();
  $x++;
}

sub doit() {
  my $foo = 'foobar'; my $x = 0; my $y = 0;
  while ($x &#60; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/07/25/perl-string-compare-dprof/</link>
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		<title>info pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more annoying things to come about in the Linux/open source world is the use of &#8220;info&#8221; pages, replacing the old workhorse standard of &#8220;man&#8221; pages. In doing so, developers often ignore documenting crucial elements in a man page, instead leaving this gem at the end:
SEE ALSO
       [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/07/23/info-pages/</link>
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		<title>20 credits down, 70 to go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An educational update:
I finished spring quarter with some good grades, bringing my credit total to 20: 10 credits of math, 5 of English, and 5 of philosophy. I decided to take it easy in the summer quarter, and am taking two online classes, which means I am home for dinner every night (a big plus!).
One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/07/06/20-credits-down-70-to-go/</link>
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		<title>Failmuffins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Fill to the top? More like FAIL to the top, am I right?
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		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/06/28/failmuffins/</link>
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		<title>Eastside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Esther and I have moved to Kirkland, in to the first apartment we&#8217;ve picked together. I grew up in Kirkland, so I feel pretty familiar with it. We&#8217;re in a nice area, surrounded by trees and near a state park, and across the street from a bowling alley, a grocery store, and a few other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/06/25/eastside/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;After the jump&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do blog authors realize how stupid &#8220;after the jump&#8221; looks when people view the article in full? I must frequently view entire posts, because I don&#8217;t remember the last time I saw the phrase where it was followed by a &#8220;read more&#8221; link.
I hope the phrase dies a choking death.
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		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/06/25/after-the-jump/</link>
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		<title>First day back in class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The break between Summer and Fall quarters is the longest of them all. This year, Summer ended August 14th, and Fall began September 22nd. That coupled with the fact that both courses I took for the Summer were online led me to forget a whole lot about scheduling time for classes, or what you should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/06/23/first-day-back-in-class/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t leave it lying around the house</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boldtext Pew Bible: King James Version
This book should never be left where it could fall into the hands of children. Recurrent themes of bloody violence, murder, racism, incest and rape are dealt with extremely irresponsibly. Horrific events are presented as justified by circumstances and as solutions to petty wrongs.
I thought the anti-DRM reviews about Spore [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/06/23/dont-leave-it-lying-around-the-house/</link>
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