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git – a love/hate relationship (with maybe a little more hate)

Posted on December 17, 2009October 5, 2013 by Matt

As per my previous post on git, we’ve been investigating and running trial repositories using git. So far, though, git has been frustrating me.

Wooly mammoth may have gone extinct more recently than thought

Posted on December 16, 2009December 16, 2009 by Matt

Wooly mammoth may have gone extinct more recently than thought

Mediterranean Might Have Filled In Months

Posted on December 14, 2009December 13, 2009 by Matt

Slashdot is carrying the story. As it turns out, large-scale flood theories are not uncommon. The Black Sea deluge theory is well supported. Discussion, on the slashdot story, have some suggesting that these large-scale floods are most likely the source of the many flood myths around the world.

Ashley Madison on Toronto Transit

Posted on December 13, 2009December 12, 2009 by Matt

So, Toronto Transit is/was in discussions with Ashley Madison for an advertising deal on their vehicle. Ashely Madison is an adult website catering to having an affair. I just tried googling them…that’s all they do, apparently.

Love Generation

Posted on December 11, 2009January 4, 2010 by Matt

Love Generation. You’ve all heard this tune on the Lotto Max commercials. It’s actually a pretty good video.

Google: Nothing to hide? Nothing to fear!

Posted on December 8, 2009December 8, 2009 by Matt

Google, one of the legends that came with your company was Don’t Be Evil, but this quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt is atrocious, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

The Mire of Miracles

Posted on December 6, 2009December 22, 2022 by Matt

Third Day’s song Carry My Cross has an interesting lyric: I’ve come here with a mission \ And soon I’ll give my life for this world \ I’m praying in the garden \ And I’m looking for a miracle.

Google Public DNS

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Matt

Google announced today the launch of Google Public DNS and it’s a boon to everyone under the tyranny of the brutal practice of your ISP hijacking DNS requests and spamming you with search+ads pages when a domain name really doesn’t exist.