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title: "links for 2006-02-02"
date: 2006-02-02T00:32:04-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2006/02/02/links-for-2006-02-02/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [links]
---

# links for 2006-02-02

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		<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.mrbass.org/ringtones/">Make your own Ringtones</a></div>
		<div class="delicious-extended">Remember to cut it down to mono.  With this capability, I'm surprised there's a ringtone industry whatsoever.</div>
		<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/mobile">mobile</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/ringtones">ringtones</a>)</div>
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		<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3689819.stm">BBC NEWS | UK | Speed-texter beats world record</a></div>
		<div class="delicious-extended">This, again, makes me wonder if some sort of morse code interface might be desirable on a mobile device?</div>
		<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/mobile">mobile</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/sms">sms</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/records">records</a>)</div>
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		<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.johncon.com/john/receivedIP/howto-qmail-procmail.txt">howto-qmail-procmail.txt</a></div>
		<div class="delicious-extended">Checking out how to get procmail working with qmail, in anticipation of setting up a moblog-by-email script.</div>
		<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/qmail">qmail</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/procmail">procmail</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/unix">unix</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/sysadmin">sysadmin</a>)</div>
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		<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://jwz.livejournal.com/595865.html">jwz - GLTerminal</a></div>
		<div class="delicious-extended">"It's pretty sweet, though not as faithful a simulation of a CRT as Trevor Blackwell's fantastic Apple ][ screen saver (in xscreensaver)."</div>
		<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/nifty">nifty</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/software">software</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/hacks">hacks</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/retro">retro</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/oldschool">oldschool</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/computing">computing</a>)</div>
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		<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://blog.delaguardia.com.mx/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=34&blogId=1">I blog therefore I am | Please Guido, pick me, pick me!</a></div>
		<div class="delicious-extended">Hee hee, I'm glad someone said it: "But hurry up, many leading web framework developers are pleading their case and you don't want to be last."</div>
		<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/webdev">webdev</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/python">python</a>)</div>
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		<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.365tomorrows.com/02/01/we-all-fall-down/">365 tomorrows - We All Fall Down</a></div>
		<div class="delicious-extended">"On the eighteenth day the sun didn't rise, we locked ourselves in our homes and apartments."</div>
		<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/scifi">scifi</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/stories">stories</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/writing">writing</a>)</div>
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		<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44892&rss=1">President Creates Cabinet-Level Position To Coordinate Scandals | The Onion - America's Finest News Source</a></div>
		<div class="delicious-extended">"In his State of the Union address to the nation last night, President Bush announced a new cabinet-level position to coordinate all current and future scandals facing his party."</div>
		<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/politics">politics</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/bush">bush</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/funny">funny</a>)</div>
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		<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://decafbad.com/">0xDECAFBAD</a></div>
		<div class="delicious-extended">Friends don't let friends drink decaf.</div>
		<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/programming">programming</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/coffee">coffee</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx/caffeine">caffeine</a>)</div>
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            <div class="content"><p>My Nokia phones lets me use any MP3 as a ringtone. I just transfer the file via Bluetooth from my Mac to the phone and select it. As I recall hearing, many phones/providers don't allow this because of all the potential money they can make off of selling ringtones.</p></div>
            
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