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Tue, Sep. 1st, 2009, 12:34 am Wal-Mart
This New York Post article by Charles Platt has one serving of pro-capitalism platitude, and a few servings of fascinating anecdotes about working at Wal-Mart, including a little bit about the application screening quiz anda little bit about the Telxon: read more...
IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster read more... Sat, Jun. 6th, 2009, 01:16 am Toys

I doubt this is what Phil Gramm meant by "nation of whiners", but this memorable phrase of his sometimes to mind when I hear Americans complaining about their lot in news interviews. read more...
From what little I know, gay rights activists seem to generally advance the imprecise meme that being homosexual is an inborn trait. I particularly remember this hilariously uncomfortable interview: read more...
A vendor and riding home from the horse festival on a bicycle cart read more...
How do you see or find ignored, untracked files in your Git working copy? Files which do not show up in git status because they match a pattern/line in .gitignore or .git/info/exclude with this command: Git 1.6:
git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard Git 1.4, 1.5:
git ls-files --others -i \ --exclude-from="`git rev-parse --git-dir`/info/exclude" \ --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore read more...
Google App Engine Helper for Django r52—the one that works with the Django 0.96 that comes stock with Google App Engine—no longer works with Google App Engine 1.1.8. It gives an error like: cd mysite; /usr/bin/python manage.py runserver Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 18, in <module> InstallAppengineHelperForDjango() File ".../mysite/appengine_django/__init__.py", line 440, in InstallAppengineHelperForDjango read more...
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria have arrested scores of motorcycle taxi riders with dried fruit shells, paint pots or pieces of rubber tire tied to their heads with string to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets. read more...
There are two simpletest modules for Drupal 6. The 2.x branch (currently at 6.x-2.5) is a backport of the unit testing framework that will be included in Drupal 7. Unfortunately, error handling is not very good and it is possible to get inscrutable errors like this when running a test: Running SimpleTests
An error has occurred. Please continue to the error page An error occurred. /batch?id=30&op=do read more...
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