Month: June 2006

It is hard (and almost impossible) to be both smart and handsome. But it is very easy to be stupid and ugly.

The funniest college application essay ever. And it’s written nicely too. A must read!

Found by virtues of del.icio.us popular humor.

Whenever I use my LiveJournal account, I miss all the comfort and flexibility of my WordPress installation. But whenever I blog with WordPress, I miss the feedback from the LiveJournal community.

The only solutions seems to be to use WordPress for blogging and automatically broadcasts posts to LiveJournal. Some people are doing it already.

While reading about Joe Grossberg’s making it in the Mac world, I noticed the “ALT-.” bash shortcut (he mentions it in his post).

the fact that doing ALT-. at the bash command-line doesn’t behave normally. Instead of repeating the last argument of the previous command, it outputs some characters.

That was a new one for me. Needless to say, that one second later I was Googling for bash shortcuts, and another second later, I was scrolling through this excellent reference.