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#67523 (138/302) ↑Good ↓Bad ⚐Flag
<North> In school I wrote on a desk "This desk is SERIOUS business"
<North> the next day, I saw under it "stfu"
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< marnanel> getting an email from the people you wrote a database app for ten years ago to say that it's still working fine... is an awesome thing.
<@tberman> marnanel: did it have money in it?
< marnanel> the email? no.
< marnanel> nor, I'm pleased to report, did it say "Would you do some free consultancy for us?"
< marnanel> Ah, I remember that app so well. It was distributed onto laptops with synchronisation when they were docked. And it printed letters. And it had a built-in macro language based on Forth. And it was written in Visual Basic.
< marnanel> I was young and foolish.
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<Angelic> In other news, Sony annonced that it's new game console, the PS3, would in fact NOT run games, and instead play VIRTUAL FUN DISKS which are totally different from games in all ways and should totally not be connected in any way to the "Game Industry" which the representitive speaking declared as "Childish" and "For Wimps,"
<Angelic> To go along with this bold declaration, he stated "YEA, YOU HEARD ME NINTENDO! YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF PUSSIES."
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<turtlexiv> do you know of a built-in function to strip out possible extra info from the filename? i need to escape all back slash and forward slashes
<espantoso> back slash, forward slash, escape... sounds like OJ Simpson

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