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I was playing with Google Sitemaps and was reading the docs. I knew spammers were dumb, but I had no idea they were this dumb.
Be wary of SEO firms that send you email out of the blue.
Amazingly, we get these spam emails too:
"Dear google.com,
I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories…"
It scares me to think of what would happen if smart people got into spamming.
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Lying down and relaxing my heart rate gets down to 55 and sitting around watching TV (and blogging) I just found out it hovers around 58-59, just shy of 60. So I went ahead and cross off yet another goal on the list (see the pages on the right).
If you use subversion do yourself a favor and go set up auto-props now to set svn:eol-style=native on text files. Here, I’ll even give you the link to the subversion book chapter on Automatic Property Setting. And even better yet, heres the list of file patterns I have, just to get you started.
*.c = svn:eol-style=native
*.cpp = svn:eol-style=native
*.h = svn:eol-style=native
*.txt = svn:eol-style=native
*.png = svn:mime-type=image/png
*.jpg = svn:mime-type=image/jpeg
Makefile = svn:eol-style=native
*.sql = svn:eol-style=native
*.xml = svn:eol-style=native
*.java = svn:eol-style=native
*.properties = svn:eol-style=native
*.sdl = svn:eol-style=native
*.wdl = svn:eol-style=native
*.jsp = svn:eol-style=native
*.html = svn:eol-style=native
*.css = svn:eol-style=native
*.js = svn:eol-style=native
*.sh = svn:eol-style=native;svn:executable
*.pl = svn:eol-style=native
*.rb = svn:eol-style=native
*.yml = svn:eol-style=native
*.rhtml = svn:eol-style=native
*.rxml = svn:eol-style=native
*.rjs = svn:eol-style=native
*.cgi = svn:eol-style=native
*.fcgi = svn:eol-style=native
*.rake = svn:eol-style=native
Rakefile = svn:eol-style=native
*.php = svn:eol-style=native
There, now that you’ve done it, let me tell you why. What you don’t want is a project to go on for years while you’re too lazy to set all the svn:eol-style properties yourself. All the while thinking it’s not a big deal and figuring that when the issue comes up someone will tell you, or be smart enough to set things up properly themselves.
Wrong.
What really happens is that one day someone will start editing your code on Windows and they will shit all over the code base with inconsisitent EOL characters. Now, I couldn’t care less if one file is different from another, but I do care when someone changes every line in the file (WTF, you didn’t notice before you comitted?) or worse, yet… use some editor that’s so assinine that it will insert CRLF only for the lines it changes. I do believe that last one is the exact definition of the completely wrong thing to do.
Signed, your friendly neighborhood schmuck who spend entirely too much time fixing 2,000 files and setting svn:eol-style on 7,000 files. Don’t be like me, don’t be lazy.
I feel special that I have a Google Analytics account and I just got an invite to Google Spreadsheet. This makes me an ubernerd.
I switched back to the old theme, since I’ve put the grand unification of my website look and feel on hold. I’ll get around to it, but my plan to use Sandvox has been scuttled. Turns out to be a little trickier than I had hoped.
Plus I realized that the google analytics bits were in the old theme and I wasn’t getting data. Whoops. 
Yes, I reverted to the default theme. Actually a copy of it. I’m in the middle of some churn. Hopefully, when I’m done the front page will look the same as the blog.
Have you ever been googling for something somewhat hard to find? Maybe, say, lyrics from a song in the credits of the movie you just watched to find out which song in the credits it actually is. You know, before you think to try Amazon for “-moviename- soundtrack”.
Anyway, you have a number of tabs open from the search results page. You found what you wanted (after you get your head out of your ass and check Amazon). You’ve decided to close down all the tabs and you find something that makes you say “How the fuck did I end up here?”
Case in point, I found this while searching for the lyrics to the song in the credits of Dark Kingdom:
“Writings by LiquidGeneration’s Beloved Uncircumcised Pre-Operative Transsexual”
(Via How the fuck should I know?.)
