? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

January 2013

@gallamine A little of both? But I lean towards CamelCase.

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Sweet! Change the color of a calendar in iCal on the Mac, that same color is used on the iPhone. No longer limited to the 7 standard colors.

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Thanks, Wake County Schools, for calling us at 2:17pm to tell us that school closed early (at 12:45pm, 1½ hours ago).@WCPSSS

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Quote of the day: “How does Ubuntu do it’s voodoo?”

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It’s so dry and staticky… twice today, when I washed my hands, I actually got a static shock when I touched the water!

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@pwbrewer We’ve always had good luck with the Progress Energy outage hotline (800) 419-6356.

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@emmarockin You could get a dog and name it The Cuteness… but that’s a different movie altogether.

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I am stuck somewhere between Batman with his utility belt and the Junk Lady from “Labyrinth”.

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Woah, that shredder was a lot fuller than it looked. POOF! 20 minutes later, I *think* I got all of the shreds picked up.

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schneierblog TSA Removing Rapiscan Full-Body Scanners from U.S. Airports: This is big news: The U.S. Transportation Security … bit.ly/T9wasQ

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No peace in my house… five girls having a sleepover.

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Wondering why BackupPC was taking so long. Just realized it had finished YESTERDAY & had started another backup! It just never rests.

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freezingsheep Ensmallen your horrification of this sentence by adjustifying all your language settings funwise.

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Life is too short to re-arrange the dishes in the dishwasher in an attempt to squeeze in a few more dishes.

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@OldCrank It comes from an old law saying that liability warnings have to be “conspicuous”. See Uniform Commercial Code.

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Of all of the developers in our software group, who is able to run tests on IE6/xp, IE7/xp, IE8/xp and IE9/w7 — the Linux guy, that’s who!

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On Linux, I prefer “focus follows mouse”. But I understand that’s impractical on Mac OSX b/c the menu bar is at the top, not on app window.

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So… are Siri and the @RunKeeper distance announcer lady room-mates?

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Pro Tip: Trying to “scp” copy a file with a colon in the filename? Scp thinks it’s host:path. Put “./” in front so scp knows it’s a file.

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I used to work for 2 managers, Guy & Dick. Guy had a coffee mug that said “What A GUY!”. I wanted to get a similar mug for Dick.

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Sunday morning, 11am. Neighbor kid just rushed over here in his house robe, desperate to order more girl scout cookies.

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If anybody is interested in Girl Scout cookies, let me know. I can hook you up!

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Done :-)

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Filling out TPS reports for the last 43 weeks. My strategy = ignore them until my boss specifically asks for ‘em.

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