Mokka mit Schlag

Atropa belladonna Solanum dulcamara, Ridgewood Reservoir, 2007-06-09

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The Apple Store is down and it’s a Tuesday. New Macs must be coming out momentarily. Probably MacBook Pros or maybe new iMacs.

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I’ve been tasked with setting up a continuous integration server for a team Java project. Options are:

• Anthill
• Continuum
• Cruise Control
• Something else?

We don’t have a strong opinion about any of these. Anyone care to comment on which one we should use and why?

From Delicious Library 1.6.4:

LICENSE AGREEMENT

DELICIOUS LIBRARY IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES THAT THE PROGRAM IS FREE OF DEFECTS, MERCHANTABLE, OR FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

which means… don’t sue us if something goes wrong!

Believe it or not, that’s it. Would that most payware licenses were this simple and obvious.

I’ve been running short on dress pants, so Sunday I stopped at Sears to take advantage of their Memorial Day sale and upgrade my wardrobe. I bought about a dozen assorted items, and when I left the store the door scanners started beeping. The security guard and I both looked through my bag, but didn’t find anything. However when I got home I found this:

Seems the clerk forgot to remove a security tag from one of the pairs of pants. Anyone know how to get this off of the pants without tearing them or going back to the store?
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There seems to be a small epidemic of blog spam coming in from apparently Polish sites. The comments take a variety of forms, but usually look something like this:

Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings

Sometimes they ask for permission to translate the article into Polish.

You may want to keep an eye out for these. Akismet seems to be missing a lot of them, and at first glance they seem like a real comment. However Googling some of the phrases makes it apparent that they’re spam. The exact wording varies.