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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 27 years, 10 months, and 27 days. I am currently a hacker for SaurikIT and the Computer Science Lab administrator for the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.
[douglas@topsecret:~]$ fortune
Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
-- Mel Brooks, "The Listener"
[douglas@topsecret:~]$ fortune█
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
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
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
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
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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