Browsing around, I found this nice piece about how to not get bored on conferences by Scott Berkun.
He talks about different kinds of sessions, and notes that it is often the case that conversations are more valuable than the sessions, something I deduced for myself long ago. Then he proceeds with helpful hints, some of them obvious, others less so.
A horror of the day: pierced eyeglasses.
In the vein of various link shortening services (http://tinyurl.com/ , http://xrl.us/ and so on) some evil soul has created an absolutely hilarious link longening service, http://www.hugeurl.com/
I am not discovering America, but this:
s/(\S+)$//s);
$x = $1;
$y = $_;
is the hell of a lot faster than an equivalent
/^(.*?)(\S+)$/);
$x = $2;
$y = $1;
One can really feel that with moderately long lines (50K or so).
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