Jan-Piet Mens

Quickies

November 14th, 2009 | Categories: Entertainement | Tags: cache, PGP, SVN

When you take apart a LEGO house and mix the pieces into the bin, where does the house go? Answer. (via @u235.)
iPhone app du jour: Shazam. I call it pure magic.
The complete guide to publishing PGP keys in DNS. (via @fanf.)
The Caching Chronicles — a site dedicated to Web caching topics.
I love this kind of humour: SVNHub. (via @unixtippse.)
Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds).
Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger. (via @fanf.)

If I have to write one more polyglot bash / awk / python script to gather data from log files on a bunch of different machines, demux that into a time-ordered event stream, pipe it through something to munge it into some slightly different format, ship that off via post to some web address and get some JSON back, parse that into some other shit, do some computation over it like aggregation or date math over time stamps with unlike representations, wrap the results up in an HTML table and send that table in a MIME-enabled e-mail to myself I think I am going to explode.
Visual Tour of GNOME3. (via @admlife.)