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greyhat··on Track your cat with GPS: Mr. Lee's CatTrack
Aww, I was hoping this was made by Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong...
greyhat··on Will Habari Be The Next WordPress?
Yes, thats what it said, "the next wordpress" =P

Wordpress might have a nice admin UI and a large community, but the code and even they way you interact with the code is ugly and in large part PHP3-style... (at least it was when I was looking at it extending it sometime after v2 came out...)

greyhat··on Why "Build to last" is bullcrap consultants suck and how Digg failed to innovate
I was particularly annoyed at that point as well, especially since a lot of the problems the brain solves are not based on its "processing speed" as much as its "software" that AI attempts to emulate.
greyhat··on Why isn't there a Linux distro out there that is made for huge web 2.0 infrastructures?
Tasksel, like almost everything else in Ubuntu, is from Debian. This package in particular predates Ubuntu by about 5 years...
greyhat··on Ask YC/PG: Can we call our points system 'karma'?
I don't understand the question, its "karma", its a word, used all the time, informally to mean built up good fortune or bad fortune... you don't need to cite anything...

Honestly I'm a little freaked out by how eagerly over gracious to YC this question is...

greyhat··on Apple applies for patent on "sneakers" DRM
Its probably for things like this, my sister got one of these for her running shoes, which aren't Nikes...

http://www.grantwoodtechnology.com/shoepouch/

greyhat··on Google Chrome Comics
And they flicker oddly, in such a way that you can click next, see a few things happen, and then wonder if you have gone forward one page or three.
greyhat··on John Gruber Explains Why Free Software Has Poor Usability
Gruber does not deserve to be linked here... 99% of his blog is just him trying to keep up the price of his Apple stock...
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