Chipping the web – license plate
October 17th, 2007 6:46:54 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
SOS: 112 is a uniform emergency telephone number for the European Union.
Lone Wolf vs. Pair Programming. I’m almost always a lone wolf, but I have had some amazing pair programming experiences.
Top 10 things Vaspers does not want to hear from someone emerging from the bathroom.
Why we curse (warning, strong language — thanks, Assaf).
Speaking of Assaf, I didn’t even know he had co-authored a book on Ruby. Might have to get that one.
Definitely right brain (thanks, Randy).
Widget watch: Lune uses my OPML browser widget. Better get the latest version, Lune.
Thanks for the link-love, Sergio. I’d like to hear more about what you think of the SLF, and I’m sure apotheon would, too.
T.F. Sakaguchi has me in his/her blogroll. Thanks, T.F!
Giving myself a little link-love (you can watch if you want to):
- Chip’s Tips: improved debugging and OPML browsing in WordPress.
- IT Consultant: the Zen of consulting. Have the peasants revolted? Can’t we just meet online? Sure, I can squeeze you in.
- [Geeks are Sexy]: Great balls o’ fire (almost)! The FAA is still hung up. Googler farming. They finally got the Led out.
Kleenex, please!
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Hey, thanks for linking to my toss-away post. I spend most of my time on Twitter now, and don’t get out to the blogosphere much, but I am trying to do more comment posting on blogs.
Hope you’re doing fine these days.
Do you know if Windows Vista supports Second Life? If not, can you recommend a virtual world that I can experiment with?
http://twitter.com/vaspers
I’ve been meaning to try out SL when I get the time — which never happened. I don’t know whether it works with Vista or not.
I know it works with Linux, by the way. I gave it a try. After an hour or so, I was bored to tears.
Alas, I haven’t tried it with Vista (or FreeBSD, for that matter) either. I’ll probably give it a whirl on my “new” FreeBSD gaming machine when I get it set up.
If Sergio gets back to you about the SLF, let me know — especially if he does so in English. My Italiano is pretty rusty, and was never that great to begin with (I didn’t know how to ask for a cross-tip screw driver, for instance, though I could have asked where to find the bathroom — or was that the beach?).
Will do.
When we traveled to Italy with our one-year-old daughter, there were a couple of beverage-related phrases I picked up quickly:
Latte fresca, per la bambina
Più birra, per favore
There was a restaurant right next to my post in Italy when I was in the Army — like, across the street from the front gate and probably a dozen doors down, give or take — called Il Fauno’s (I think I have a shirt from the place in a box somewhere). They had an excellent beverage there that I got every time I went there to eat: latte menta. Mint milk. Much much better than it probably sounds.
Interesting. We found that most places didn’t have much decent refrigeration, so keeping fresh milk was out of the question. All they had was the boxed milk that was invented at UC Davis, which keeps on the shelf for months without refrigeration, but goes bad within hours of opening it.
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