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Blood donation in Canada

I did my 2nd blood donation in Canada today.  I’d like to encourage any Canadian’s that read my blog to go out and schedule a donation to the Canadian Blood Services, it’s a worthwhile experience that can save someone’s life.  It’s free, it’ll take an hour of your time, and you get juice and cookies. [...]

Android v1.0 released

For anybody that cares, Android v1.0 has been released along with the T-Mobile G1 handset running Android on it.  The future is finally here — I can hardly wait.
Here’s the download site:
http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html
Their download page hasn’t been updated yet, but here’s the link to the SDKs:
http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.0_r1.zip
http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk-windows-1.0_r1.zip
I’m very excited now.

Enable date-stamp in your .bash_history file

While it’s easily cleared by a malicious person, this can easily extend the usefulness of your history file with the information of when you ran that command.
This works in bash v3 and up.
If you’d like to add the timestamping to all users on the machine, the file you’d want to edit is probably /etc/profile.  If [...]