Today’s New York Times is running an article on the lake with the longest name of any place in the country: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. So long, even the welcome sign that the Chamber of Commerce put up is spelled wrong.
My first thought was: folks from home in Issaquah often jokingly refer to it as “the ‘Quah.” […]
Some time ago I came across a posting which outlined a Bash prompt containing the return value of the previous command, colored green if the command exited normally ($? == 0) and red if the command exited with an error ($? != 0).
I wish I could remember where I found it; unfortunately, after some extensive Googling I’ve been unable to locate my original source. At any rate, it was broken when I found it, so I had to fix it, and I finally figured out how yesterday.
I’ve made some alterations to WordPress to allow for postings in certain categories to be restricted to registered users. This will help me separate the personal from the professional posts on this site and allow me to target my audiences accordingly.
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