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r @xinmyname you ain't lyin', man. TicketMaster really *is* the Troll Toll.

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woo! got 2 tickets to The Nightman Cometh in SF! thanks @rhigdon ! http://is.gd/26JcI

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r @siracusa yeah, it's good, but it's no Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell http://is.gd/26ImW

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This is what it has come to: I use a virtual machine to run FireBug. Firefox not having per-process support is a HUGE architectural flaw.

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sometimes I really wish I lived in NYC http://bit.ly/15N3hA

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what do Short People and Opera have in common? They both have no reason to live. http://is.gd/265Zs

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I have lost count of the number of annoying Opera specific bugs we've run into. It's like IE, but without the market share. <two snaps up>

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r @thefear "You cant blame them" see, that's where you're wrong. Allow me to introduce you to my GIANT WHEEL O' BLAME!! <spins>

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the number of web spiders that don't do basic gzip compression is astonishing. Are these developers retarded? I feel a ban coming on..

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@codinghorror
that site had it coming, man! the aesthetic and moral superiority of rounded corners, come on. GET TO WORK YOU SLACKER!

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this is the kind of wankery that results when designers are not given enough work http://is.gd/25wSl

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rt @dehora "Appreciation of when not to use Object Oriented Programming" http://tinyurl.com/nyey6w

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New wireless Fender bass in glorious seafoam green! Bass: how low can you go? http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5531/fenderwirelessbass.jpg

Jeff Atwood
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how long will your next project take? Analyze it here! http://www.sixtoeightweeks.com/ (thanks to Ólafur Waage)

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@codinghorror
rt @jamesmarcusbach The symbol of the singularity should be a unicorn. Unicorns also get talked about a lot, and also don't exist.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I have *GOT* to see this Teen Witch movie. http://bit.ly/4gawm

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@codinghorror
optimus prime is a filthy, filthy robot! http://www.flickr.com/photos/dyl86/2608250735/in/photostream/

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@codinghorror
good tip on .mkv support in #win7 http://is.gd/24da3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
seaman, the game. "you don't LOOK busy." http://bit.ly/Fqz0s

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
(warning, crude humor!) I don't need 140 characters to say .. http://is.gd/23VZi

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@codinghorror
Guitar Hero: Van Halen tracklist revealed. http://bit.ly/frbP1

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@codinghorror
seeing some botnet activity in our stack overflow logs. very strange stuff. http://bit.ly/lxmIV

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@codinghorror
r @ogre ala the hi-tech Flight of the Conchords camera-phone!! http://bit.ly/1bMpD8

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@codinghorror
WARNING: May contain disappointment

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@codinghorror
r @darrenkopp actually ipod sales are way down; most would rather have one device, not 2 or 3 or 4 http://bit.ly/3JBJDq

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@codinghorror
surprisingly positive buzz on Zune HD, but unless it's also a phone, seems pointless at this juncture. http://bit.ly/2aWdg

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@codinghorror
r @shanselman clearly blogging was not cutting it as a form of therapy for that unfortunate guy http://bit.ly/Ypk53

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@codinghorror
previous tweet about "subclass of girlfriend" was adapted from the oft-brilliant Pesto http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/23921/pesto

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@codinghorror
just another "tricky" normal day http://bit.ly/hxbxk

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@codinghorror
rt @accordionguy Guilty musical pleasure: "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" by Das Racist -- http://bit.ly/10ckke

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wife: subclass of girlfriend. Unlimited access to your private members, hogs all resources, spawns child processes that you can't kill

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here's one for all the programmer / race car drivers http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/?5152

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"I have read one of your article at your blog of codingHorror.com . I found you are awesome ." sometimes, email works!

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Loving the Evony spoof ads for PvZ http://bit.ly/2Y6DO9

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r @jzy The Jack Principles (You Don't Know Jack) http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000085.html

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if you are a software developer and you don't *enjoy* buying software, then it's time to take a long, hard look at your career path

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@codinghorror
The only cord that bothers me is my headphone cord. Are wireless headphones viable if you care about audiophile-ish sound quality?

Jeff Atwood
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iPhone app store has ruined me for pricing. $5 for an app? OUTRAGEOUS! HIGHWAY ROBBERY!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Deep pinball *finally* dropped in the iPhone App Store. $0.99! http://bit.ly/emBq6

Jeff Atwood
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also, Amazon has all Rock Band 2 full band kits for $99. Get your Fake Plastic Rock on! http://is.gd/22vBf

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Xbox 360: Rock Band 2 + Drumkit + AC/DC track pack for $49 https://www.rockband49.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
r @jzy "bubbleologist"? Man, I picked the wrong career. AGAIN. http://is.gd/22uC6

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"people are morons and double-click on everything." "my grandma triple-clicks on stuff."

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@codinghorror
rt @superdalgas "Caleb was playing babysmash the other day on Jennies computer - took out a keyboard.. 3 E D and R all stopped working"

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Spinal Tap rock band DLC drops today! Good music for your Hell Hole! http://is.gd/22lPc

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I cannot post a link to the new Evony ad because it is borderline NSFW. I *wish* I was kidding.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
r @rolfje definitely rate-of-deletion problem in my testing. I guess mass Windows file deletes cause a ton of MFT updates to collide?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
wow, so, for the record deleting multiple server folders with 24k files using rmdir /q /s is *not* a good idea. Major system freakout.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I am downgrading myself from "high-functioning" to "low-functioning"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
you've got the eyes of a stranger, starring .. Tubbs? http://is.gd/217Kz

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I got a lot on my mind grapes! #30rock

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the 50x number is not supposed to imply that we make a killing, because we don't, but that AdSense = mouse nuts

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@codinghorror
here's a fun number for you. We make 50x more from our own ads than AdSense. Seriously. 50x. Not kidding.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
r @tylerwhitaker they actually *do* click on ads, just not the random Google "we guess this is relevant?" ones.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the Google AdSense experiment on stack overflow is officially over. conclusion? EPIC. FAIL. Also, I hate Mediapartners-Google bot.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the best thing about Pixar's "Up" was the dogs. They *really* need to do a dog movie. SQUIRREL!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
bah, I miss @rockhardawesome now that he's in daycare. Having a child has RUINED ME EMOTIONALLY!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Hot Waitress Economic Index" is pure comedy gold http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/58195/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I can just see @wilshipley on the Apple board. "Meeting Point #5: Why Aren't More Hot Ladies on Wil's Jock?"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Tech meccas: the 12 holy sites of IT http://is.gd/20Mfz

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
so *that's* what DJ Jazzy Jeff has been up to these days http://bit.ly/fFaFq

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@codinghorror
good lord laptops are cheap now. http://bit.ly/JRkfV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the real viruses are other people

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
r @dozba I'm fat n' sassy!! http://is.gd/1ZTqg

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I wish #win7 would have replaced the f'ing horrible Windows-Tab behavior with Bao's *awesome* switcher http://insentient.net/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
crud, this Win7 concurrent sessions hack totally doesn't work for me, at all. http://is.gd/1ZnNA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
With review hardware, you always hope they'll let you keep it, but this review PSP I have, I don't even want this thing for FREE

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
one year of Stack Overflow http://bit.ly/hbtqD

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
oh and if you need the password for superuser.com it is ewok.adventure

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I am 3 for 4 on Vista -> Win7 upgrades. 4th PC is being a bit of a PITA, any ideas? http://is.gd/1Ye8U

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@codinghorror
I find your lack of faith ... disturbing. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the Randy "Macho Man" Savage Left 4 Dead mod http://bit.ly/18y3hs

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@codinghorror
what is with all this crazy "would you recommend?" email spam.. it seems to be quite effective at evading Google's spam filters..

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
based on iPhone app store experience, I think "star rating" alone is worthless. Everything normalizes to average. Need to show range.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
r @jzy "entertaining, but rarely solve problems" there's humanity in a nutshell for you

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
URLs with http:// inside the querystring should be drawn, quartered, and then shot

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Every Bassist Ever and Spinal Tap http://bit.ly/Z86uR

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Sony should not be allowed to design user interfaces, for anything, ever. And the PSP just feels so.. cheap. Also: noisy optical disks? wtf?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
got a review PSP unit with Rock Band Unplugged. Not impressed with the PSP, in fact, I kinda hate it.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
what the heck happened to DataGlyph? No wikipedia page, PARC disavowed it.. http://bit.ly/DpUGw

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Punch cards were once the ultimate in high tech." http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/punchcards.html

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
a lace card, also called a whoopee card, ventilator card, or IBM doily http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@lessien find me ONE, *one* person who was excited about Zune.. or Live.. or Vista. Compare: Natal. Bing. Win7. Just look around you!

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@codinghorror
r @carnage4life are you kidding me? Arrington quitting your product is like a child molester moving off your block: cause for celebration

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@codinghorror
IMF you guys Spinal Tap in RB!! http://tinyurl.com/lx4m33 see, kids, dreams DO come true

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
(\b\S+\b)(?=.*\1.*)

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@codinghorror
here's how awesome Win7 is. I have UAC on and I don't even care, because it *totally works now*. http://is.gd/1VQKM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"iPhone is much more powerful than Wii" http://is.gd/1VNjG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
happy sysadmin day! http://www.sysadminday.com/ -- you can celebrate on http://serverfault.com :)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
friday fun: learn how to solve a Rubik's Cube... DORK! http://bit.ly/Go7YB

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
big bad wolf, meet VORTEX CANNON http://bit.ly/wDI7Z

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Saw "Up". Muntz got a raw deal, he'd been looking for that rainbow Chocobo for decades!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
p.s. suicide death 9/11 murder (via @jzy) http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/gmail.html

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Stack Overflow joins forces with How-To Geek (@howtogeek), for great web justice!!! http://is.gd/1UhOi

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@codinghorror
I have *got* to stop saying "LOL" when I type LOL. Even @betsyphd looks at me funny now.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Yes, I want to lose 5 XP! http://perlmonks.org/?node=thepen

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@codinghorror
I have been informed that it is actually spelled "by the power of Gr*a*yskull." Will She-Ra be "disciplining" me? http://is.gd/1U6pB

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@codinghorror
r @theune crap, I didn't know others could "steal" content to Kindle. Now I have to follow up with Amazon to get it de-listed.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I totally need to work "by the power of Greyskull" into more of my correspondences http://www.27bslash6.com/buffed.html

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@codinghorror
sheesh guys and gals, I'm pretty sure the Kindle 99 cents PER MONTH charge is just to cover network costs. No need to get all riled up.