Kerry Buckley

"Roger that Houston, I'm a PC."

Yeah? and how's that working out for you?

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Here's mine:

~ $ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5dt%sn",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head
  232	git
   82	cd
   30	ls
   20	sudo
   18	rm
   13	./script/server
   12	mate
   11	rake
    7	vi
    7	ssh

Probably slightly skewed by the fact that I was doing a git demo yesterday.

Meme via Simon Brunning.

From the meme collision department...

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This clip [MP3, 57s] from a Rails Envy podcast made me laugh. It's referring to Charles Nutter's recent musings on whether werewolf is killing the conference hackfest.

Incidentally, how often do you get the chance to Google for "nutter werewolf"?

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I'd originally intended to present something about BDD, but the slides and demo never really came together so I didn't really want to inflict them on people who could have gone to a better session. I was going to risk bad karma by not presenting at all (there were plenty of empty slots, so I don't think I'd have been the only one).

At some point in the early hours of Sunday, trying to sleep in a very warm room where the lights kept randomly coming on, I thought of another idea – could a bunch of us come up with 101 uses for an index card (something I've been planning to try myself for a while)? It would be obvious from the title that it was just a bit of fun, but maybe ew might learn something along the way about the techniques that people used which used index cards in some way.

Unfortunately (I like to think purely because I posted the session on the board at lunchtime on Sunday!) only two people turned up, beating my record of four from BarcampBrighton. We did manage to get a third of the way though, coming up with 34 uses:

1. CRC cards
2. Shopping list
3. Werewolf
4. Release planning/User stories
5. Enumerating the uses of an index card
6. Taking notes
7. Essential use cases
8. Paper prototyping
9. Bookmark
10. Funnel for salt, sugar etc
11. "Indexing stuff" (ie whatever they were originally designed for)
12. Emergency business card
13. Barcamp/unconference scheduling
14. Playing 1001 Blank White Cards
15. Inflicting paper cuts on an enemy
16. Making an animation flip-book
17. House of cards
18. Making noises with bicycle spokes
19. Drug pouches (I have no idea what this means!)
20. Roaching
21. Paper planes (although our test model was prone to nosedives)
22. Cue cards
23. Flash cards
24. Postcard
25. Beermat
26. Recipes
27. To-do lists
28. Lighting fires
29. Setting fire to, in order to satisfy the requirement to collect "fire" in a scavenger hunt
30. Bulletin board advert
31. Very simple origami
32. Signage
33. Action Man billboards
34. Blocking CCTV cameras

Paul also added "toothpick", via a Flickr comment.

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This from the profile page on Orkut (which is, of course, an international site):

Someone really ought to tell them that African American isn't a globally-applicable synonym for Black.

Ever wondered what would happen if you mixed lolcats with PostSecret?

Of course you have.

Very clever.

So I was reading Jon's post about Paul's SEO talk at Barcamp Brighton, and thought I'd give the tip for finding incoming links a whirl.

I searched Yahoo for linkdomain:www.kerrybuckley.com -site:www.kerrybuckley.com, and found pretty much what I expected – my blog comments, links from a couple of other blogs, links from my profiles on sites like Twitter.

Then I found this: Apple's new iMac: blogger reaction - Times Online.

Of all the blog comments about the new iMac, I'm not sure why he chose mine.

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