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Just in case you were wondering, yes, this is the official site of Douglas Thrift, it is owned and maintained by me, Douglas Thrift.

Note: This is a non-smoking website. Thank you for not smoking while viewing these webpages.

About Me

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 27 years, 9 months, and 24 days. I am currently a hacker for SaurikIT and the Computer Science Lab administrator for the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.

Douglas Thrift's Blog My blog: a collection of random thoughts, commentary, and crazed opinions.
Douglas Thrift's Nonexistent Journal My LiveJournal: like my blog only more so, but with Top Secret stuff (maybe).
Wikitastic An experiment in the personal wiki category, whatever that means.
Facebook | Douglas William Thrift My Facebook Profile: but you already know that.
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Fortune Cookie
[douglas@topsecret:~]$ fortune
When the lodge meeting broke up, Meyer confided to a friend.
"Abe, I'm in a terrible pickle! I'm strapped for cash and I haven't
the slightest idea where I'm going to get it from!"
"I'm glad to hear that," answered Abe. "I was afraid you
might have some idea that you could borrow from me!"
[douglas@topsecret:~]$ fortune█
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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

Links

Vance, Thrift and Biller LLP | CPAs
Villanova Preparatory School
KCLU Public Radio - NPR & Jazz
Ken's Sharpening & Services
The Avatar's Journal Jay Freeman
Ventura High School Class of 1969
daskling.net Matthew Shayefar
Hamlet on the Moon
jeweled platypus Britta Gustafson
POSSIBLE INSTANTANEOUS COMBUSTION Colin Curtin
Whim: Custom Treasure Hunts Graham Talley
Teludriel's Oil Paintings: It isn't done by number here. Natalie Joy Williams
Vegetarian Industrial Complex
Eat Places

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	OpenBSD Porting Checklist to documentation openbsd pkg unix … saved by 12 other people … on Jul 24, 2010 at 12:29 PM
	pkgsrc.se \| The NetBSD package collection to netbsd pkg unix dragonflybsd … saved by 77 other people … on Jul 24, 2010 at 7:38 AM
	The pkgsrc guide to documentation unix netbsd dragonflybsd pkg … saved by 36 other people … on Jul 24, 2010 at 7:30 AM
	Chromium development to browser freebsd chrome documentation google unix pkg … saved by 5 other people … on Jul 15, 2010 at 7:05 PM
	Chicken tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tariff on light trucks imported to the US that is still in effect for no apparent reason. to history insanity international politics trucks … saved by 1 other person … on Jun 28, 2010 at 7:26 PM
	The GNU C++ Library Documentation I should use this instead of the SGI STL documentation. to c++ documentation datastructures algorithms … saved by 35 other people … on Jun 15, 2010 at 1:08 AM
	Kid Pix: The Early Years to art fun history games … saved by 12 other people … on Jun 13, 2010 at 10:16 PM
	Google Map Parameters - Google Mapki to documentation geo google stuff … saved by 649 other people … on May 25, 2010 at 5:57 PM
	Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection to documentation freebsd unix pkg ccscslab … on May 18, 2010 at 8:34 AM
	mozilla.dorando.at keyconfig: goDoCommand("button_compact") Shift-E to thunderbird email … saved by 161 other people … on Apr 28, 2010 at 2:38 AM
	What is your most productive shortcut with Vim? - Stack Overflow "Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi." to documentation linux unix via:inanimate ccscslab … saved by 435 other people … on Mar 31, 2010 at 10:56 PM
	Dennis Forbes on Software and Technology - The Impact of SSDs on Database Performance and the Performance Paradox of Data Explodification to database datastructures computerscience insanity ccscslab via:saurik … saved by 138 other people … on Mar 25, 2010 at 2:15 AM
	Food Genome Complete with a url shortener: nom.ly to fun stuff food via:straup … saved by 31 other people … on Feb 18, 2010 at 1:38 AM
	Cyrket 2.0 -- Developer's Cockpit for Android Market It's always funny to see what various journalists get wrong about Jay. to android personal stuff fun ccscslab … on Feb 6, 2010 at 12:36 AM
	Posts by Wil Wheaton at TV Squad to tv startrek history … saved by 222 other people … on Jan 20, 2010 at 8:27 AM

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Location	Date and Time
Greenwich, England	Saturday, July 31, 2010 3:10:21 AM GMT
California	Friday, July 30, 2010 8:10:21 PM PDT
Colorado	Friday, July 30, 2010 9:10:21 PM MDT
Washington, DC	Friday, July 30, 2010 11:10:21 PM EDT
Japan	Saturday, July 31, 2010 12:10:21 PM JST

[douglas@topsecret:~]$ stardate
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