bash: exist: command not found

Of course, I meant to type exit, but I think that this was funnier. _
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02:27:07 AM, Tuesday 8 May 2001

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Happy (slightly late) birthday, Mr Eagle! _
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01:49:21 AM, Tuesday 8 May 2001

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Okay, so I went out and saw The Mummy Return's. I hadn't had high hopes for it, remembering the first one, but as it turns out, Cassie was entirely correct in her assessment of it. Remi's take on it, on the other hand, goes a bit further than I would have--at the very least, further explanation is in order. Mr Treuer, Explain! _
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12:39:07 AM, Tuesday 8 May 2001

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Well, there's that issue settled. _
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03:13:19 PM, Monday 7 May 2001

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This site is one of the most remarkable things I've seen on the internet in ages. Color photographs of Russia from 1910, and they're good clear pictures, at that. The site, of course, is from the Library of Congress, source of all sorts of good things, and I got the link from MeFi. _
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12:23:40 PM, Monday 7 May 2001

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I still haven't removed either b1101011 or febbie w a stick from my buddy list in AIM. In fact, I suspect I actually added them to the current copy of AIM when they were already irrelevant. _
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11:39:14 PM, Sunday 6 May 2001

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Hurray! Remi has gotten himself a bloglet! Go see it at http://www.m14m.net/lesingesavant/bloglet.php. _
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04:19:25 PM, Sunday 6 May 2001

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Aha! Solar power might well be considered a better source of energy than the main ones we rely on today even apart from cost-effectiveness and safety issues (though it does seem to win on those counts as well), in that it can be much more substantially decentralized than the others. And decentralization is good because it reduces hierarchy in society and makes people more free. Ideally, at least. (On a similar note, consider the various community wireless projects out there, which eventually, with a little luck, may build up a whole internet that can actually be maintained by the people.) _
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02:49:03 PM, Sunday 6 May 2001

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Okay, right now, you have to go and read The Guy I Almost Was. _
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02:23:08 PM, Sunday 6 May 2001

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Ha! I wonder why I didn't think earlier to look online! Okay, those of you who've heard the stories or seen the commemorative web page can now actually read something on the same topic by the same lunatic who gave the worst lecture of my febbie summer, and the only lecture I remember in which we won in question period. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Good Entomologist/Bad Entomologist, by E. Michael Jones, Ph.D, editor of Culture Wars magazine, and author of the lecture "I Will Be With You On Your Wedding Night: Frankenstein, Horror, and the Enlightenment's Sexual Agenda". _
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02:32:11 AM, Saturday 5 May 2001

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"Is the next All Your Base" is the next All Your Base. _
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09:31:33 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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The first rule of debugging is, always check to make sure you're not just being an idiot. _
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08:08:44 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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Yes. The stylesheet weirdness was being caused by the JavaScript trick I had used to make the comment window both (1) pop up in a nice little window on graphical browsers and (2) work in Lynx. I've now set it up so that it pops up in a separate window, but not a precisely specified one, if you're using a non-Lynx browser. It should work in Netscape now, though the older pages won't. Meanwhile, you should scroll down and read that poem, because it's good. _
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03:50:58 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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So was I right? _
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03:49:07 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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Oh God, it's the JavaScript, it's the stupid fucking JavaScript! _
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03:46:47 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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Hmm... _
foo
foo foo

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Could it be the empty address link? _
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03:39:49 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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I mean--would just taking out the line breaks fix it? _
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03:37:44 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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It can't just be breaking nondeterministically! _
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03:36:53 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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Okay: respond?
time, date

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Or is it breaking just after the "first"?

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No, that wouldn't do it. But it may have looked slightly different. _
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03:33:21 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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No, that wouldn't do it. What if I had a span of class time?like this.Would that do it? _
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03:31:11 PM, Friday 4 May 2001

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No, that won't do it. What if I made a paragraph of the "seperator" CSS class?

Would that do it?

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No, a new paragraph won't do it. What if I closed the previous paragraph?

Would that do it?

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Okay, now I'm trying to figure out what actually causes the netscape weirdness.

will a new paragraph do it?

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Kenneth Patchen says:

She is the prettiest of creatures
All like a queen is she

I have made a paper wheel
And I pin it to her dress

We lie together sometimes
And it is as nice as music
When you are half asleep

And then we want to cry because
We are so clean and warm
And sometimes it is raining
And the little drops scuttle
Like the feet of angels on the roof

I have made this poem tonight
And I pin it in her hair

For she is the prettiest of creatures
O all like a strange queen is she
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01:33:49 AM, Friday 4 May 2001

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That's extremely perceptive, and seems exactly right, but I think there's more to it than that. Sometimes it becomes perfectly clear just whose arms you need to be in. (Whether or not you're planning to die there.) I'ven't the faintest idea what to make of this. _
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01:30:21 AM, Friday 4 May 2001

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Ha! I just found myself in a situation where a goto statement would have been useful! (Of course, I'm in Java, so goto isn't an option, but still.) _
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07:49:21 PM, Thursday 3 May 2001

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I hate computers. _
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05:46:59 PM, Thursday 3 May 2001

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The GNOME people have finally gone off the deep end: "Gnome Basic is an embryonic attempt to provide Visual Basic compatible functionality for the GNOME project, particularly with respect to office (VBA) compatibility." _
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02:18:55 PM, Thursday 3 May 2001

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Presence, followed by an extended absence, followed by a brief presence, followed by a longer absence, followed by another brief presence, followed by a still longer absence, makes the heart grow fonder. Also, weary. _
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02:41:54 AM, Thursday 3 May 2001

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Foo! _
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10:15:59 PM, Wednesday 2 May 2001

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Online homoerotic fanfiction archives: putting the slash in http:// _
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10:14:09 PM, Wednesday 2 May 2001

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clue

If you have a date in some readable format, and want to convert it to epoch seconds, use date(1) like this:

date -d '1 May 2001 14:47:58' +%s

If you want the date in epoch millis, multiply the resulting number by 1000 (that's obvious). And if you're writing in Java, don't forget to add an L after the number, thus: 988753678000L. And that's how you express a date in epoch millis, thus allowing you to use the version of the constructor for java.sql.Timestamp() that doesn't cause a compiler warning. _
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01:57:58 PM, Wednesday 2 May 2001

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It's the genocidal bits that really bother me. _
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01:24:17 PM, Wednesday 2 May 2001

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More brilliance from Brunching Shuttlecocks _
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06:10:12 PM, Monday 30 April 2001

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Sometimes, even if you know something will always be a number, it's better to represent it as a string. Specifically: ID numbers in a web-based application. They're always numbers, of course, but their sole purpose is to be unique identifiers, so I'll never do any numeric operations on them. On the other hand, I will be referring to them in html forms sometimes, and data coming in from a form always starts out in string format. So. I know I won't have to deal with the IDs as numbers. I know I will have to deal with them as strings. Therefore, consider them strings all the time.

I knew this principle before I defined all those ID properties as ints--why didn't I think to apply it? _
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02:13:40 PM, Monday 30 April 2001

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