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Perhaps Last.fm’s recent revelation will elighten more people to a longstanding reality about the tabloid Techcrunch:

Although only 1½ people read this blog, I’m hoping I’ll get some responses to this puzzle. I figured out a solution, but I’m worried i was being too clever and that there’s an even simpler BASH way of handling this.

A few things I found particularly interesting this week:

• Flash Vorbis player – An open source vorbis player in a 46KB SWF file!
• Engadget Cares: Save us from Apple’s groundbreaking, developer-shackling App Store
• Python 2.6 – Finally released with a ton of 3.0 features and the new -3 switch. Should be fun.

This blows my mind: Involver, sort of a competitor to the far more interesting Mosuki :-), recently posted on their blog:

You may have noticed that our site broke this morning. Apparently the power supply on our database server decided to commit suicide while everyone was asleep.

The next three days is CodeCon. This year I’m officially on staff handling the CodeCon Live Audio streams. You can view the schedule to see what topic is at hand.

Alright, this is fairly geeky, but I’d like to know if there is a better way of doing this.

Something I love about perl is how many places it lets you interpolate. Being used to this flexibility, I wanted to do something similar in a shell script (in particular, my .bash_profile). This is my first stab at it: