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wickline writes "This just in:
Google and http://use.perl.org/ cooperate to force perl luminaries to make witty comments on use.perl.org users.
For details, put your username in the following URL:
http://wickline.org/ug.cgi?YOURUSERNAMEHERE
Google and http://use.perl.org/ cooperate to force perl luminaries to make witty comments on use.perl.org users.
For details, put your username in the following URL:
http://wickline.org/ug.cgi?YOURUSERNAMEHERE
Examples:
YMMV as google's cache grabs new random quotes from use.perl.org pages.
-matt"
wickline is all alone in the world.... In such cases, immediate and radical amputation of the power cord is the only recourse. --Larry Wall
wickline's Journal (135).... the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
wickline is either loved by all or just invisible.... charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-) --Larry Wall
wickline has posted 27 comments. Below find the most recent 24 comments.... feeling of just who would have to fix them :-) -- Jarkko Hietaniemi
YMMV as google's cache grabs new random quotes from use.perl.org pages.
-matt"
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huh? (Score:1)
Re:huh? (Score:1)
Re:huh? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:huh? (Score:1)
guess I'm just lucky (Score:3, Informative)
I've started getting spam on a couple of email addresses I'd used of perl-related postings, so I hopped over to google to see just how many places those addresses might appear on the web.
My first query was wickline perl which included two use.perl.org hits... my 'fans' and 'friends' pages. The Google page summary grabbed my name and some surrounding text, then grabbed "download perl" from the page footer, along with the quote of the day... and the combination happened to be entertaining.
So, I tweaked the query to pull up only those sorts hits. I used the word 'Download' instead of 'Perl' to have google include more of the quote of the day. I limited queries to use.perl.org, and only pages that had my username in the url and in the body of the page (without the body requirement, my name didn't show up in the page summaries).
The results were
entertaining [wickline.org], and so I whipped up simple redirect so that nobody else would have to type the google query, and posted the story.
Now that I'm reading folks' reactions, I can see that you have to be sufficiently like me in order for this to work. You have to have had your user page indexed by google, which means that you have to register and you have to have ether submited a story or a comment or had a recent journal article when google indexed use.perl.org (or have a link out there somewhere to your user page). You also have to be sufficiently invisible on use.perl.org so that there aren't a bunch of folks refering to your username and giving less entertaining hits. You probably also get less entertaining hits if you use your username in your own comments, as they will then show up as well. And for maximal entertainment value, you have to have no friends, no fans, and get lucky enough to get one of the quotes that fit google's context window.
basically, it turns out that most folks won't get as entertaining a set of results as I did. Many folks will get zero hits from google, and other folks will get hits that just ain't funny.
For what it's worth, here's some of the more or less interesting hits:
-matt
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Re:guess I'm just lucky (Score:1)
jonnosan is all alone in the world.
jonnosan has posted 2 comments.
jonnosan has submitted 0 stories. Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work. --Mark-Jason Dominus
More google fun (Score:1)
e.g. I just got this one: :-)
--Larry Wall in 1992Mar5.180926.19041@netlabs.com
If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.
And here's the full context: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=1992Mar5.180926.19041%40netlabs.com [google.com]
Re:guess I'm just lucky (Score:1)
---ict / Spoon
Re:guess I'm just lucky (Score:1)
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You are what you think.
Perceptive ?? (Score:1)
MeerCat is all alone in the world.
a fix looks like, then
It's just like being an adolescent again....
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