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You know, following my last post, I was thinking about the command line.It absolutely rules when it comes to any kind of text-processing, which means any kind of serious computer work. No question there.And for a lot of graphical stuff, it's surp… more »

Well, actually, just make it work better.When I was at YAPC I saw a few things being done in the command line I didn't know. In the process of looking up what they were, I found out some other stuff too. So here's a few useful things Bash does that I… more »

So, I'm in Latvia. For the 2011 Perl Conference.Riga, the capital city, I like - It's got that bizzare Eastern Europe way of having ancient stone buildings and evidence of centuries of history; people sweeping up with birch besoms; and all kinds of o… more »

If you're a Facebook user, you might have seen this particular status getting passed around over the last day or so:RIP Broken Britain.. You went soft on discipline!.. Parents were told.. 'No you can't smack the kids'....Teachers were prevented from… more »

How *does* America manage to get science legislation so very wrong? How long will it take before they stop basing their laws on the whims of the religious hysterics and the short-term interest of already-rich businessmen, and start thinking rationally… more »