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Computer languages considered in linguistic contexts?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 10:43 PM on July 27, 2008
(19 comments)
What's the (non-music-theory) significance of "Eight To The Bar"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 12:10 AM on July 20, 2008
(8 comments)
Major crashes with OS X 10.4 (on a G5 iMac). Bad hardware?
It looks like I'll have to take it in for repairs, but maybe there's a software fix?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 3:49 PM on June 1, 2008
(13 comments)
Has code been added to "fix" "invalid" HTML?
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 4:58 PM on May 8, 2008
(49 comments)
Contractor telling me outrageous lies. In writing. What are they guilty of? Lots more inside.
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 9:52 PM on April 12, 2008
(10 comments)
Does
this post about how wonderful new web technologies from Microsoft are, and how easy and quick it is to develop for them, set off anyone's alarm bells?
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 3:20 PM on March 13, 2008
(87 comments)
How can I run a web server on OS X without admin access?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 3:31 PM on February 20, 2008
(14 comments)
I'm going to be teaching less-than-enthusiastic students; help me keep their respect and attention.
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 5:05 PM on January 20, 2008
(18 comments)
Why would siblings who don't know they're siblings be attracted to each other?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 3:30 PM on January 12, 2008
(28 comments)
It smells like
dirty socks, wet dog, oil, chemicals, gymnasiums, burning, vomit, and more. It induces
blurred vision, disorientation, shaking and tremors, vertigo, seizures, loss of consciousness, respiratory failure, depression, sleep disorders, salivation, nausea and diarrhoea among other symptoms. Is
"toxic airline syndrome" the new Gulf War Syndrome?
posted to MetaFilter by AmbroseChapel
at 6:54 PM on January 7, 2008
(35 comments)
I can't get to any metafilter.com addresses from my home ISP. I can get to it from other places, i.e. work, and I can get to it if I use an open proxy.
More details inside.
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 4:25 PM on January 2, 2008
(25 comments)
Should I buy a Sony Reader? I'm on Mac and in Australia.
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 8:00 PM on December 19, 2007
(18 comments)
Can I make the side panel of Windows dialogs more like OSX?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 11:13 PM on October 23, 2007
(5 comments)
What's a good name for the kind of "piracy" that doesn't feel like piracy to a reasonable person?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 8:54 PM on September 1, 2007
(47 comments)
Reinstall Mac OS on G3 iMac after installing Linux?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 12:50 PM on March 19, 2007
(16 comments)
How, and how much, do the makers of TV shows get paid?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 3:32 PM on January 28, 2007
(15 comments)
"part of American culture is to utterly ignore people who are outside your circle of personal friends/acquaintances/family" ... "there is a cultural thing re yelling and violence in American domestic relationships" ...
we all know what those people are like ...
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 9:15 PM on January 2, 2007
(363 comments)
How, if at all, is geography taught in schools in the USA?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 7:59 PM on January 1, 2007
(54 comments)
Help my find my favourite shirt
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 7:59 PM on December 11, 2006
(2 comments)
Good free/cheap XML-and-XSL application?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 4:22 PM on November 16, 2006
(15 comments)
Today's random-deletion gripe:
this post was no more worthy of deletion than a bunch of other ones about human relationships.
What's the problem being solved here? Although it was asked in a chatfiltery way, the problem was clearly "The use of the word 'honey' has specific implications about the nature of a relationship for my boyfriend and I don't know why", with a side order of "is he a freak or am I?".
How is that different to some question about "how does dating work", for instance?
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 4:27 PM on November 14, 2006
(31 comments)
AskMe preview is
broken when the post contains list tags.
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 5:03 PM on November 9, 2006
(3 comments)
Why is copying a DVD so hard? No, seriously.
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 3:17 PM on November 9, 2006
(25 comments)
People who enjoy Ask might like to spend a bit of time on the NaNoWriMo forums this month, particularly the ones where they ask for
help on making their plots and characters realistic.
This year, How to take Congress hostage, how much of a body would vultures get through in three days, and how to deliver a baby outdoors. In short, lots of interesting questions getting asked and answered. Last year, a (presumably very young) novelist just wanted to know what having sex was like.
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 3:24 PM on November 4, 2006
(4 comments)
English slang expression that sounds like "CASE OH"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 4:01 PM on October 28, 2006
(33 comments)
What's the key difference between "
what are some great movie scenes involving food?" and "
what are some great upbeat 80s songs?" that gets one post deleted and not the other?
Supplementary question -- has anyone ever noticed these help-me-with-my-list posts turning up in articles? I can't help but think that
some of the people asking "name some movies for me where
happens?" are getting their journalistic homework done via Ask. Is that cool if they are, or do we feel used?
On another forum, someone asked a "name some TV shows where <foo> happens" question, and I not only heard my answer on the radio three days later but heard it word for word. The guy had obviously cut-and-pasted my exact words and read them out on air.
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 10:59 PM on October 2, 2006
(42 comments)
Is there any way of knowing whether a vacancy in Jobs has been filled? Do they disappear if someone gets the job? Is there a flag?
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 10:29 PM on September 27, 2006
(4 comments)
How can I get Google to re-index my site and how did it find it in the first place?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 8:28 PM on August 21, 2006
(14 comments)
Just in case you were wondering "how often is that AskMe feed
really borked, anyway?" [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 6:31 PM on August 20, 2006
(104 comments)
Is DreamHost always this bad? Are they going to get better?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 2:52 PM on July 30, 2006
(52 comments)
Web hosting and "illegal" activity
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 10:09 PM on July 22, 2006
(24 comments)
Just to keep you up to date, the AskMe RSS feed was invalid at
- Wed Jul 19 22:00 EST
- Thu Jul 20 08:00 EST
- Thu Jul 20 08:30 EST
- Thu Jul 20 09:00 EST
- Thu Jul 20 10:00 EST
- Thu Jul 20 15:00 EST
- Fri Jul 21 05:00 EST
- Fri Jul 21 05:30 EST
- Fri Jul 21 06:00 EST
- Fri Jul 21 06:30 EST
- Fri Jul 21 07:00 EST
- Sat Jul 22 09:30 EST
- Sat Jul 22 10:00 EST
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 4:47 PM on July 22, 2006
(21 comments)
Borked last night and Borked the night before/Going to get Borked tonight if we never get Borked any more./When we're Borked we're sick as we can be/'Cos "Syntax Error on line 1" is much too much for me.
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 2:24 AM on July 16, 2006
(13 comments)
RSS Feed Busted Again...
See if you can spot the subtle error in the XML Syntax:
Connection Failure
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 9:21 PM on July 11, 2006
(2 comments)
Is it just me, or is the
AskMe RSS Feed reported to be broken on BlogLines more often than not?
"The feed URL returns a page that does not look like an RSS feed. This can be caused by the feed URL being incorrect, or it can be caused by a configuration issue with the server hosting the feed. If this error continues, you should check the feed URL and, if it is wrong, subscribe to the correct URL."
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 7:04 PM on June 29, 2006
(20 comments)
Help me understand SVN
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 7:47 PM on June 13, 2006
(18 comments)
What is the point of PageRank, and why do people think that's a silly question?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 7:39 PM on May 31, 2006
(30 comments)
Graduates of the "school of hard knocks" flunk real life.
A study from the University of Leicester says that, contrary to popular expectation, unpleasant and traumatic life experiences don't make people suspicious and shrewd -- quite the opposite.
Many people who've had a tough life actually turn out more gullible and easily swayed:
"This is because the person may have learned to distrust their actions, judgments and decisions due to the fact that the majority of the time their actions have been perceived to invite negative consequences"
The counter-intuitiveness of this finding fascinates me.
Wait. Maybe I shouldn't be taking it at face value...
posted to MetaFilter by AmbroseChapel
at 4:28 PM on May 27, 2006
(50 comments)
CMSFilter -- recommendations and de-recommandations. Say I can get Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress installed with equal ease. Which do I want for a relatively simple site?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 2:24 PM on May 23, 2006
(13 comments)
Help me make my other Mac, in the other room, beep me when an app has finished what it's doing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 3:59 AM on May 11, 2006
(20 comments)
Trouble logging in. Or actually not.
I got a couple of different messages, one saying "error, email Matt" and another saying "error, delete MeFi cookies, if problem persists, email Matt". I gave up, thinking I wasn't logged in, but when I went to Ask, it turns out I was.
Another related thing. Is the CAPTCHA case-sensitive? Because it doesn't say either way. That would have eliminated one possible avenue of enquiry into why login was failing.
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 4:16 PM on May 2, 2006
(12 comments)
Problems Posting Code To Ask yet again.
I really wish AskMeFi handled code better. As in, handled HTML, JavaScript, Perl, whatever, with linebreaks and indenting preserved. Some people are smart enough to use the PRE tag, but they still need to escape the HTML brackets, and their code gets extra linebreaks added.
When I need to post code I pre-process it with a script now but the average person isn't that obsessive.
The
"regular expressions are overkill" guy has a problem in his code, please note, as does the
"screw the dom" guy.
posted to MetaTalk by AmbroseChapel
at 9:30 PM on March 27, 2006
(25 comments)
You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much disk space...
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 10:30 PM on March 12, 2006
(10 comments)
Why is Gmail telling me to use their SMTP server?
posted to Ask Metafilter by AmbroseChapel
at 9:43 PM on March 5, 2006
(8 comments)
