00:00:30 One of our European hubs started having serious latency problems, we've rerouted. Should be okay for now. 00:12:39 GabeW has quit ("Client Exiting") 00:23:35 * AaronSw is away: dinner 00:25:24 tansaku has quit () 00:35:31 * AaronSw is away: bottomless pit 00:59:25 redmonk has quit (""Time... to die...."") 01:31:30 * sbp is writing rather rhythmical emails at the moment 01:33:40 * AaronSw is back 01:33:56 welcome back 01:34:15 from sbp / is this message to thee / please reply most promply 01:34:40 * sbp giggles 01:35:30 I should use that in my .sig :-) 01:35:36 Heh. 01:35:56 * AaronSw tries to think of rhymes for "Kindest regards" 01:36:37 fragment'ry shards 01:37:13 writers and bards 01:38:00 "Kindest regards," 01:38:01 say the writers and bards 01:38:01 who constructed this message 01:38:01 from framenty shards. 01:38:25 AABA? ugh 01:39:09 "Kindest Regards" / say the writers and bards / who constructed this message / from sheep's guts and lettuce 01:39:26 lettuce? lettuce? 01:39:30 AABC is even worse 01:40:01 well, it nearly rhymes with message... it's A A B Bish 01:40:11 doing a few small conversions to the new server code 01:40:20 hey, don't interrupt 01:40:41 Bish is even worse than lettuce! 01:40:53 expect to see some very small netsplits 01:41:05 hey! what did I just tell you? Genii at work 01:41:16 * AaronSw giggles out loud. 01:41:48 well, it's nursery rhymey: ay ay bee bish 01:42:25 ay ay bee bish, have you any wool? yes sir yes sir, shear my back 01:43:20 * AaronSw laughs 01:44:22 do Americans call nursery rhymes, "kindergarten rhymes"? I'm surpised that you have the word kindergarten at all 01:44:44 * sbp is just kidding about the former, truly baffled at the latter 01:45:13 We call them nursery rhymes. 01:45:20 You call kindergarden nursery there? 01:45:38 I guess we call it playschool most often. And no, we don't have any playschool rhymes 01:46:10 playskool is a trademark here, used for plastic rollable kitchen sets for kids and the like 01:46:27 heh, neat! 01:47:06 small kids must have a tough time when they migrate between the USA and the UK 01:48:09 ooh, hip-hop question of the week: http://www.daveyd.com/sellout.html 01:48:16 "What constitutes a sellout in hip hop?" 01:48:43 N.B. the article contains the words "kindergarten rhymes" somewhere 01:49:13 """just sing and throw out some old kindergarten rhymes out there, you know, so you can shake dat ass and enjoy the music.""" 01:50:20 On our sex-rms subject: 01:50:21 it's not sex, it's GNU/sex 01:51:19 William is quite conservative with his commas, isn't he? That's a nice example. I think I'm sprinkling them into my sentences to liberally[,] these days 01:51:32 example [to follow] 01:51:44 I'm a liberal commaist 01:52:33 not as liberal as you could be 01:52:57 Aaron, a liberal, commaist 01:53:51 .google commaist 01:53:51 no results found. 01:54:00 I think we need a semi-comma, really 01:55:40 For example, we can take a long sentence like this,, and denote where the semi-comma should go using the ",," string 01:56:20 i wonder if there's a semi-comma in unicode 01:56:27 i mean, if they have an interrobang... 01:56:58 I did a google search ages ago, but most of the results were just people messing up "semi-colon" 01:57:10 .google site:unicode.org "semi-comma" 01:57:11 no results found. 01:59:58 well, theres: 0xA4 0xFF64 #HALFWIDTH IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA 02:00:10 0x8141 0x3001 #IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA 02:00:15 0x8143 0xFF0C #FULLWIDTH COMMA 02:00:47 ooh, interesting 02:01:02 * sbp goes a googlin' 02:02:49 I did find some information, but now IE has crashed. PFf 02:04:30 [[[ 02:04:32 Halfwidth. Characters of East Asian character sets whose glyph image occupies half of the character display cell. In legacy character sets, halfwidth characters are normally encoded in a single byte. The Japanese term for halfwidth characters is hankaku. 02:04:37 ]]] - http://www.unicode.org/glossary/ 02:06:52 Hint: If you feel you need a local server, check the web site every so often (http://openprojects.net/irc_servers.shtml) as occasionally servers are added without much fanfare 02:15:16 restarting another server, small netsplit (about 35 users) 02:29:26 Gotta run 02:33:15 "I cannot walk throught the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it supresses idle details, just as our memory does." - JORGES LUIS BORGES 03:01:05 sbp has quit (devlin.openprojects.net irc.openprojects.net) 03:02:20 sbp (~sean@63.149.73.20) has joined #swhack 03:28:35 davb (dave@alb-24-58-162-46.nycap.rr.com) has joined #swhack 03:29:51 sbp has quit (Read error: 54 (Connection reset by peer)) 03:30:04 sbp (~sean@63.149.73.20) has joined #swhack 03:46:10 redmonk (~steve@ip68-2-102-26.ph.ph.cox.net) has joined #swhack 03:46:26 davb has quit ("Client Exiting") 03:46:53 hello 04:20:25 Apologies for that routing-and-lag glitch on an EU hub. Problems should be resolved. 04:23:05 it's always you europeans 04:28:16 heh 04:29:42 Apologies, looks as if we lost Sydney due to memory problems, took the opportunity to fix 'em 04:31:19 walloper is popular today 04:37:22 @ http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/ 04:37:31 A: http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/ from AaronSw 04:37:36 A:|Welcome to Google 04:37:38 titled item A 04:37:40 A::via tav 04:37:43 commented item A 04:37:44 A:|Welcome to Google (circa 1998) 04:37:46 titled item A 04:38:00 A::"Might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype that is much more up to date.: 04:38:01 commented item A 04:38:05 A::"Index contains ~25 million pages (soon to be much bigger)" 04:38:06 commented item A 04:38:14 A::"Google! is research in progress and there are only a few of us so expect some downtimes and malfunctions." 04:38:15 commented item A 04:42:30 that's funny 04:42:56 Hm. deltab reminds me a bit of Dominique Francon 04:49:30 Hi to everyone in #kernelnewbies, this one will probably affect you just a bit. Apologies and it should go pretty quickly. 04:55:31 heh 05:01:41 [Global Notice] Hi all. Europe is going to get a little crazy for a few moments as we upgrade the hub. Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for using OPN. 05:03:35 sbp has quit (devlin.openprojects.net irc.openprojects.net) 05:06:19 sbp (~sean@63.149.73.20) has joined #swhack 05:09:27 [Global Notice] That should be it for European rehubbing. Thanks again for your patience. 05:10:11 Apparently I spoke too soon. :) 05:11:32 This is a WALLOPS message for the Open Projects Network. These messages contain non-critical comments and announcements and detailed server admin information. To turn them off, turn off user mode 'w'. On most clients: '/mode -w'. Thanks. 05:31:34 GabeW (~gwachob@12-236-237-100.client.attbi.com) has joined #swhack 05:36:03 tansaku (~sam@mtl10gw.mtl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) has joined #swhack 05:50:02 redmonk has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 05:57:08 [Global Notice] Hi all. One more server will be converted this morning, and this one has about 450 users, so it'll be a bit noisy. 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