4 Apr 2003 (Friday) 

I hope the old man was right, or this is going to be a real short trip. [ A real short trip; Stargate SG-1 ]

Said by the captain of the Prometheus as they try to take off whilst all the guns are still aimed at the ship; a paraphrase of a similar situation in Star Wars IV where Han et al are trying to leave the Death Star in the Falcon. I just found it quite funny - I'd actually missed it the first time I saw that episode, but I actually laughed out loud at that .

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26 Apr 2003 (Saturday) 

Pine is invariably wrong when it warns me about postings to newsgroups. I've developed a simple fix for this.

perl -e "open (IN, \`which pine\`) || die;" -e "while (<IN>) { s/Posted message may go to thousands of readers. Really post/Posted message probably won't be read be anyone. You sure/g; print; }" > notpine

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