The adventures of Paul Robinson

Did you know that these two commands are equivalent in bash?
$ cp filename filename-old
$ cp filename{,-old}

Via SwissMiss

Hmmm - I had a dream last night that Paul Stamatiou published a book and I was holding a brand new copy.
Way too much time with NetNewsWire I think…

The man himself on the Intel sticker “controversy”:
Of course none of the Web “journalists” bothered to call and ask me, but my question had nothing to do with Apple or its computer design and all to do with a story I’m working on about the future of the long-running “Intel Inside” program. You’ll be able […]

Ralph Johnson:
The thing that is going to make Erlang big is that it is the only mature language with a rock-solid implementation and good set of libraries that lets you write software that can scale seamlessly from a single processor system to a hundred processor system. In a few years, all our desktop systems […]

Paul Graham on Stuff:
A friend of mine cured herself of a clothes buying habit by asking herself before she bought anything “Am I going to wear this all the time?” If she couldn’t convince herself that something she was thinking of buying would become one of those few things she wore all the time, she […]

01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People […]

Wil Schroter:
Try replacing the world “strategy” with “I’m about to get fired.”
Here is how your new title now reads “Senior Vice President of I’m About to Get Fired”. Boy, that might not even fit on your new business card, but it won’t matter, because you won’t be around long enough to hand one out.

Fabjectory will make you a real-life 3d version of your Mii!!!
Get out.
Must…have….one….

Technorati #1

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Whoo hooo - davidpaulrobinson.com is ranked #1 by Technorati!
Think this might be a mistake? Seems all blogs are #1 today - hurry over and get your own screen shot.

All site interruption messages should be this pleasant and soothing:

You can make this door knob retract from the inside. Do Not Disturb indeed!

Walkscore

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The walkscore where I live is 95. That’s what I’m talking about!


FitFlop

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FitFlops are all the rage but the claims of extra muscle toning and fitness from wearing FitFlops are outrageous:
Developed by British biochemists, FitFlops are supposed to destabilize your foot as you walk, creating continuous tension in your foot and leg muscles, also leading to a faster walk that burns more calories.
Geez imagine that - walking […]

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