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      <![CDATA[I haven't used subversion for a while, but can't you just svn add .? Or git svn clone  and just go from there? :p
        
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      <![CDATA[yeah, my zune is fine, but thanks for your concern.
        
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      <![CDATA[Piping is just another way of saying OMFG i broke the symbolic link because someone didn't install your nutter package on my build so you're script must die.<br />
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      <![CDATA["Microsoft, eh?  So it's pretty easy to use?"
        
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What is it that the folks at Microsoft actually DO???<br />
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I mean, besides imposing a tax every couple years for a new, useless, and harder-to-use softwarre?
        
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      <![CDATA[<blockquote>Obama, like any normal person, doesn't understand how to deal with his life without email</blockquote><br />
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This may be the best sentence I have read all day.
        
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      <![CDATA[I couldn't stop watching and now I may be irrevocably damaged. I'm still hurting. They could make some money with that thing if they sold an antidote for the poor people who watched it.
        
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      <![CDATA[You added all new files to SVN... do I get a cookie? I just use TortoiseSVN's commit dialog, though :).<br />
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#3, I don't think grep can pull something out of the matched line like he did with awk.
        
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      <![CDATA["Obama's seat has an executive package. . ."<br />
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      <![CDATA[nope the network security video i watched today was the most terrible thing microsoft has ever done. hands down.
        
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      <![CDATA[@11, thanks for the heads up, I'm still using mine. Think I'll skip it.
        
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      <![CDATA[Is that Sumit in the commercial?  OMG it is!
        
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      <![CDATA[<i>Almost-President Obama is fighting with the Secret Service to keep his <b>Blackerry</b></i><br />
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worst typo ever?
        
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      <![CDATA[Best coverage of trade shows is from G4TV (which is my link for this post)
        
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      <![CDATA[That command is piped to grep, Will.<br />
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In the future, all music will be made with Songsmith. Even I would buy it if it had Bossa Nova on it -- greatest beat ever.
        
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      <![CDATA[Microsoft yet again proves that with their software and very little effort you can make something really crappy and believe that it's as good as something made by someone with talent and professional tools (see Front Page, Movie Maker, Word, the list goes on...)
        
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      <![CDATA[The video sucks, but I tried Songsmith and it is fucking awesome. Def. the coolest thing MSFT has made in maybe forever.
        
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      <![CDATA[I made it to 32 seconds of that video, and then I shat out my own liver.
        
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      <![CDATA[I want to see the Songsmith demo featuring  Diamonda Galas.
        
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      <![CDATA[Where the hell ARE the glow-in-the-dark towels?  Like the goddamn flying cars, the Jetsons had them forty years ago!  Where are mine?<br />
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      <![CDATA[I am so confused.<br />
Where's the girl's other dad?<br />
Who is that women in the man's kitchen and why is she there?<br />
What about the that young dark stranger in the coffee shop?<br />
"Miles, whadya have fo us."<br />
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      <![CDATA[No wonder MS is having layoffs. Wow.
        
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      <![CDATA[Re: The Obamamobile<br />
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What?  No flame throwers, machine guns, rocket launchers, oil slick dispensers, water cannons or ejector seats?<br />
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The geniuses in whatever rates as the Secret Service's version of Q Branch are really slacking off...
        
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      <![CDATA[Re the microsoft thing - I wonder if they retain the copyright on the music created by the software.  You sing a great song, it creates great music, then they sue you when you get a record deal?
        
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      <![CDATA[A professional jingle composer uses his daughter's music toy to create a corporate musical identity. The state of composition in america.<br />
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And "Bosses?" One isn't enough in corporate america.<br />
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This video makes me want to rip my arms off and beat my face in.<br />
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Microsoft, you lose. Gah!@
        
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