June 24th, 2002

All kudos to Rob Harley,

All kudos to Rob Harley, sed stud, for fixing my sed regex, and then (because true wizards answer the underlying question, not just the one asked), showing that sed wasn’t even necessary. So, Rob got me from this:

| lynx -dump -force_html -stdin \
| sed -e 's/^\ \ \ \ \ /bigindent/' \
| sed -e 's/\ \+/\ /g' \
| sed -e 's/^\ /\ \ \ /g' \
| sed -e 's/^bigindent/\ \ \ \ \ /' \
| mutt $MAILLIST -s "${SUBJ_}"

To this:

| lynx -dump -force_html -stdin \
| sed -e 's/\([^ ]\) \+/\1 /g'
| mutt $MAILLIST -s "${SUBJ_}"

And finally to this:

| lynx -dump -force_html -stdin -justify=0 \
| mutt $MAILLIST -s "${SUBJ_}"

Thanks, Rob.

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Fortune has a fluffy piece

Fortune has a fluffy piece on Gates and the next big OS upgrade, called Longhorn:

Why can’t I tap into all my stuff at home or at work from any device that’s mine, and have it just be available because it knows I’m me?

They should just take a look at Sproqit.

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