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If you hadn't guessed already, I am Douglas Thrift. My full name is Douglas William Thrift, but you can call me Doug or Douglas. I am from Ojai, CA, USA and currently live in Goleta, CA, USA. My current age is approximately 29 years, 7 months, and 13 days. I am currently a hacker for SaurikIT and the Computer Science Lab administrator for the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.

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Unicode Christmas and Other Holidays ☃

Tags: christmas, stuff, tree, unicode

Britta and I launched Unicode Holiday Xmas Tree, a web app that lets you decorate and send Unicode Xmas trees, on Monday. On Tuesday I submitted it to MetaFilter Projects and before long it was on MetaFilter as SEVEN SYMBOLS...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 2:03 AM

Moar Pictures from Google I/O

Tags: conference, google, googleio, insanity, io2008

Apparently Google has released its pictures from Google I/O, so much like previously in I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go I've compiled their pictures of us:...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 2:02 PM

I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go

Tags: conference, google, googleio, insanity, io2008

On Tuesday, after the CCS All College Meeting, Jay asked me if I wanted to "go to the Bay Area". Phill's web design class had left to go San Francisco for Google I/O earlier that day, missing the meeting. Anyway,...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 10:52 PM

The Future Is Now!

Tags: c++, database, dooom, freebsd, software, terminal

[douglas@slowhand:~]$ uname -a FreeBSD slowhand.douglasthrift.net 6.2-RELEASE-jc1 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-jc1 #0: F ri Feb 16 19:33:37 PST 2007 user@jail14.johncompanies.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/s ys/jail14 i386 [douglas@slowhand:~]$ █ Yep, you guessed it, you are looking at my blog served from my new virtual FreeBSD server with John...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 6:31 AM

Coder's Workshop Rescheduled

Tags: dooom, insanity, teach

My course, Coder's Workshop, has been rescheduled. Hopefully, this means more people can be there for the whole time....

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Monday, April 16, 2007 at 1:31 PM

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Wireless access point - DD-WRT Wiki
to documentation hardware ip linuxsaved by 2 other people … on Sep 11, 2011 at 6:07 PM
USC Digital Library - Construction of Eagle Rock Reservoir, 1952
to history infrastructure trucks via:brittasaved by 1 other person … on Sep 4, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong - By Leon Aron | Foreign Policy
to coldwar history politicssaved by 32 other people … on Jun 20, 2011 at 2:10 PM
Bootstrapped Add-ons
to documentation firefox instantbird thunderbird javascript … on Jun 16, 2011 at 11:32 PM
Restore transcript donation option (accidentally clicked "Never") - Google Voice Help
to stuff insanity documentation browser … on Jun 16, 2011 at 3:25 PM
Bootstrapped extensions - MDC Docs
to firefox documentation thunderbird instantbird javascriptsaved by 6 other people … on Jun 15, 2011 at 12:44 AM
Instantbird
to pidgaim irc javascript firefox instantbirdsaved by 410 other people … on Jun 14, 2011 at 11:55 PM
The Lay of the Land: Summer 2004: First Responder Training Sites
to fire infrastructure stuff cars trains trucks via:britta … on Jun 12, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Inside the Ghost Ships of the Mothball Fleet | Beyond the Photos
to history infrastructure ships via:ignatzsaved by 69 other people … on Jun 9, 2011 at 6:49 PM
BART To The Future « Burrito Justice
to history infrastructure propaganda trainssaved by 2 other people … on Jun 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Golden Gate BART and other failed rapid transit dreams (photos) : The Poop
to history infrastructure propaganda trainssaved by 1 other person … on Jun 7, 2011 at 11:22 AM
Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer | ZDNet
to del.icio.us insanity censorship ccscslabsaved by 101 other people … on May 1, 2011 at 10:02 PM
Salvation is here!
ME Models Metal Rails.
to lego trains stuff … on Apr 16, 2011 at 8:22 PM
Infrastructure – Pictory
to infrastructure cars trucks trains via:brittasaved by 43 other people … on Mar 18, 2011 at 8:13 AM
Python Extension Packages for Windows - Christoph Gohlke
to python windowssaved by 309 other people … on Mar 6, 2011 at 10:33 PM

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LocationDate and Time
Greenwich, EnglandSaturday, May 19, 2012 9:55:05 AM GMT
CaliforniaSaturday, May 19, 2012 2:55:05 AM PDT
ColoradoSaturday, May 19, 2012 3:55:05 AM MDT
Washington, DCSaturday, May 19, 2012 5:55:05 AM EDT
JapanSaturday, May 19, 2012 6:55:05 PM JST

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