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14:23:00 - Geek bash meme?

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Bash History Meme

Run:

history|awk '{print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head

And paste your output:

Onyx:~ jo$ history|awk '{print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -n 11
  87 df
  65 ps
  50 ls
  49 whois
  39 dig
  37 top
  32 du
  26 ping
  16 kill
  15 telnet
  15 tail

As you can see - I'm constantly checking disk usage, pinging servers checking dns, and speaking RFCs, pretending to be a SMTP or IMAP connection via telnet to mailservers. I ran the top 11 (the -n 11) bit - try a tail on the end instead - what are you least used? Mine were exit, eject, pwd, rm, and man.

23:40:00 - A Night Surf.. Trolling List Archives...

I can't recall how it happened, but I ended up reading through the list archives for the WHAT WG this evening, and came across this one. I smiled.

Ok, that inspired me to find out how I ended up here. Scrolling back through some 342 pages of browser history - it seems it all started with a post to the TNC list. The Gadgets vs Widgets one:
http://list.thursdaynightcurry.com/mailman/private/wellington/2007-January/005526.html

In which I referenced David Pogues "Windows ISN'T copying OS X" video, To which Mr holloway.co.nz had already meantioned XUL - which piqued my interest in how Opera was coming along with SVG/XUL, and what the status of Canvas and SVG was with Apples Widgets... etc. Which brought me across a reference to "The WHAT" - which I Googled with useless results. -- but persisted and eventually got to the What working groups spec on Web Forms 2.0 - which seemed to be a little off track with what I thought the W3C where doing. I then found it had been submitted to the W3C.. and the submission was acknowledged with comments. - Intrigued I popped over to their mailing list archives and searched for W3C... and discovered a "discussion" ensued on their mailing list....

anyway - about 3 hours later, i'm still surfing. PJs, warm bed and all...