Until my blog is restored, I thought I'd just dump this here for future reference:
 
You know how annoying it is when you open up Firefox after a crash and it opens up

# if you have to do particularly gnarly XML handling, you often have to double-encode
# ampersands. Of course, ideally, you'd use CDATA sections to avoid this. But, alas,
# life ain't that easy. Here's a simple regex to enable you to replace "&" with

[ AWT-EventQueue-0 ]  -  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: apple/laf/ScreenMenuBar
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: apple/laf/ScreenMenuBar
	at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)

portable usb linux shopping list
 
* debian/ubuntu based

tom$ sudo gem install rdiscount
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rdiscount:

@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix event: <http://example.org/event/> .
@prefix soa: <http://example.org/soa/> .

@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix event: <http://example.org/event/> .
@prefix soa: <http://example.org/soa/> .

...........................................................
.................. OpenCL Bench V 0.25 by mitch ...........
...... C2D 3GHz = 12 sec vs Nvidia 9600GT = 0,93 sec ......

require "rubygems"
require "nokogiri"
require "open-uri"

Dom has asked for guidance in the world of OO programming - see
http://www.thehodge.co.uk/programming/php-oop-wtf.php
 

Aug  7 00:00:00 iMac newsyslog[1434]: logfile turned over
Aug  7 00:00:00 iMac com.apple.launchd[1] (0x119860.cron[1438]): Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access
Aug  7 00:00:00 iMac com.apple.launchd[1] (0x119a60.cron[1437]): Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access

I don't really get Markdown.
 
Here's the situation: I want to have some Markdown that's 74 (or 80) chars

Clearleft[1] are a clever bunch of user-experience designers and consultants
based in Brighton. They have a very useful Client Worksheet available on their
website in RTF format[2].

# taken from http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/morepr0n/pr0n92.txt
         _..----''"`""'"'"`--.._
  __...+"                       `-.

#!/usr/bin/python
# a twitfave json-to-rdf converter
# twitfave.com provides really awesome data as JSON

/****************************************************************
 * microformatted address FireEagle updater plugin for Operator *
 ****************************************************************

# this code is a rough prototype of a simple IP login-based system for
# checking to see where a person is logged in from. I'm intending to use
# the string it returns to pass to Yahoo's FireEagle service.

# converting notation3 with formulae into rdf/xml using cwm
 
ricoeur:~ tom$ cat | cwm --n3 --rdf

<div xmlns:v="http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#"
 typeof="v:Review"
>

# simple "is this running?" script
# 
# I wrote this (a) because I have uses for it among those who use