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	<title>Jay Paroline - Grooveshark Dev &#187; fun</title>
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		<title>Obama Scary</title>
		<link>http://wanderr.com/jay/obama-scary/2009/08/12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope I&#8217;m not the only one who finds this incredibly amusing. I made this clip: From this clip: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p / 10c]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope I&#8217;m not the only one who finds this incredibly amusing. I made this clip:</p>
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<p>From this clip:</p>
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<td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.indecisionforever.com'>Political Humor</a></td>
<td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-july-28-2009/spinal-tap-extended-performance'>Spinal Tap Performance</a></td>
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		<title>What&#8217;s been keeping me busy</title>
		<link>http://wanderr.com/jay/whats-been-keeping-me-busy/2008/04/14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katy and I have been hard at work this past month on a top-secret project, code-named tambourine. It will be known to the public as Grooveshark Lite. We&#8217;re nearing the end and we&#8217;ve been given permission to leak a tiny little bit. There&#8217;s other big news coming down the pipe very soon, but this is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thingsthatwork.net/">Katy</a> and I have been hard at work this past month on a top-secret project, code-named tambourine. It will be known to the public as Grooveshark Lite.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re nearing the end and we&#8217;ve been given permission to leak a tiny little bit. There&#8217;s other big news coming down the pipe very soon, but this is pretty big to us too. Teaser screenshots:</p>
<p>Grooveshark Lite:<br />
<img src="http://wanderr.com/jay/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gslite.png" style="float:none"/></p>
<p>Search:<br />
<img src="http://wanderr.com/jay/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gslite-search.png" style="float:none"/></p>
<p>Listen to any song cached on Grooveshark:<br />
<img src="http://wanderr.com/jay/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gslite-player.png" style="float:none"/></p>
<p>Unlike the current Grooveshark website, Grooveshark Lite doesn&#8217;t require the sharkbyte client, and doesn&#8217;t require a user account to listen, search or browse.</p>
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		<title>Fun office pranks</title>
		<link>http://wanderr.com/jay/fun-office-pranks/2008/02/08/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of our co-workers recently managed to leave his computer unlocked when he left work for the day. Time for hilarious pranks! The standard &#8220;punishment&#8221; for leaving ones computer unlocked is to modify their system settings, often times setting their background to something humorous or embarrassing. Katy wrote up a long blog post explaining in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of our co-workers recently managed to leave his computer unlocked when he left work for the day. Time for hilarious pranks!</p>
<p>The standard &#8220;punishment&#8221; for leaving ones computer unlocked is to modify their system settings, often times setting their background to something humorous or embarrassing.</p>
<p>Katy wrote up a long blog post explaining in detail <a href="http://thingsthatwork.net/index.php/2008/02/07/fun-with-os-x-defaults-and-launchd/">how to hijack the background of an unlocked mac</a>, inspired by a prank we pulled on a co-worker who made just such a mistake. In summary we set his background wallpaper to get set every couple of minutes, also causing his dock to restart, very closely mimicking the symptoms of a virus&#8230;but on a mac. I don&#8217;t have any Mac-fu, but I was able to use my linux-fu to make the prank even more devious.</p>
<p><code>touch -f sourcefile destinationfile</code><br />
copies the timestamp from one file to another. If you put your prank image in a directory with a bunch of other files, you can help your file blend in by giving it a timestamp that&#8217;s the same as another file.</p>
<p>The other trick is to move the file into a folder whose name starts with a . so it is harder to find. While you&#8217;re at it, might as well name the file with a starting with a . also.</p>
<p>We stashed the trouble files in his .keepass folder and named them things like .specialkey.</p>
<p>finally, <code>history -c</code> clears out your terminal history so that nobody can see what you have been up to.</p>
<p>Sadly, Katy felt guilty about being so mischievous and left instructions on how to &#8216;fix&#8217; it, so he never got to appreciate the extra detail we went through to make it tricky to find and fix.</p>
<p>But you can bet he locks his computer now, <em>and</em> he learned how to make his Mac show hidden files.</p>
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		<title>BooStringlean</title>
		<link>http://wanderr.com/jay/oops/2008/01/27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when your UI doesn&#8217;t behave the way you expect it to? Yesterday, Katy managed to create a new type: BooStringlean. Oddly, her IDE did not complain that it had never heard of a BooStringlean; it was her auto-documenter that complained.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What happens when your UI doesn&#8217;t behave the way you expect it to?<br />
Yesterday, <a href="http://krichard.tumblr.com/">Katy</a> managed to create a new type: <a href="http://krichard.tumblr.com/post/24694013">BooStringlean</a>.</p>
<p>Oddly, her IDE did not complain that it had never heard of a BooStringlean; it was her auto-documenter that complained.</p>
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