? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @rockhopper ever

July 7th, 2010

I always have to think about it - in the Southern hemisphere, is Summer “cold in July”? or is Summer “hot in December”? (Answer: Summer=hot)

via web

Watched “The Pink Panther” (1963) tonight - it did not live up to my memories of 1975-78 Clouseau movies, but it had its own unique charm.

via web

@jenncutter I have a policy… I don’t roll coins (and I prefer not to count). My new bank has a free counting machine FTW!

via choqoK in reply to jenncutter

CaliLewis Well it’s official. American Airlines is doing the full body X-ray for *every* passenger. Oh goodie.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 1:08 PM, Jul 7th, 2010 via web)

Wow, it’s worse than I thought… the “don’t merge whitespace changes” rule applies to EACH LINE in a file, not to files in their entirety.

via choqoK

Dunno what’s worse, cube neighbor shouting on conference call, or the way she hangs up and then disses the callers.

via choqoK

Wut? Tools group at work says their version control system THROWS AWAY “whitespace only” changes… uhm, hello? Python?

via choqoK

@jbroome @pwbrewer Twitter probably uses S3 for storage, CP&L for power and Charmin in their bathroom, but I don’t allow scripts from them.

via choqoK

Dear @twitter, why does your web site require scripts from amazonaws.com? Can’t you use a twitter.com domain for that? #noscript #security

via web

@dsearls I believe mplayer or ffmpeg will extract the audio (WAV). From there, there’s a ton of tools to make MP3, even iTunes.

via web in reply to dsearls