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qcassidy··on Amon - server monitoring, simplified logging and error tracking for web apps
There's a typo on the Requirements page: http://amon.cx/plus/requirements/

Users are instructed to check their python version with `python -v`, but the correct command is `python -V` (uppercase).

qcassidy··on Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
Google Reader's "sort by magic" (under "View settings") might work for you:

""" A third option, Sort by magic will rank items by "magic." Personalized magic ranking is automatically generated, taking into account your past reading behavior (including liking and starring) and global signals. We'll do our best to display items in the most relevant and interesting order -- click the Like button on things you think are important or enjoy reading, and we'll learn to put items like that first. """

http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

qcassidy··on Free Kindle This November
Note that Amazon's new free movie/TV-streaming service for Prime members isn't available to Amazon Student or Amazon Mom customers unless they pony up the annual $79 fee:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_...

So students and moms probably won't get Kindles for "essentially-free or even straight-up free."

qcassidy··on Kahneman: Nothing is as important as you think, while you are thinking about it
Or, most anywhere:

for i in {1..17}; do curl http://edge.org/q2011/q11_$i.html >> edge.html; done

qcassidy··on How to Buy an iPhone at the Worst Possible Time
T-Mobile plans are actually about $20 cheaper without a contract. (They're pretty quiet about this.) Also, there's value in being able to switch carriers without penalty at any time if, say, you decide to get a different phone a year from now.
qcassidy··on Hell Freezes Over As MySpace Fully Surrenders To Facebook
Actually, hell really is frozen over, at least at its core:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#Ninth_Circle_.2...

qcassidy··on Path — Introducing The Personal Network
No, it didn't. If you're sharing pictures via email, you're doing it wrong.
qcassidy··on Trent Reznor on Why Facebook "Sucks"
I hope you're joking, but in case you're not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Reznor
qcassidy··on Steve Jobs's slight of hand
There's a slight misspelling in this headline (and in the article itself).
qcassidy··on The Opposite of Fitts' Law
Really? I've never seen a better webmail interface than Gmail's. Can you justify your claim by providing some of "it's" qualities that are so laughable?
qcassidy··on C Craft
The author works for Google, and his most recent blog post is actually about the Go language:

http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2009/11/it-go-time_6644.html

qcassidy··on SmartGit - A better GUI for Git
not GitSmart?