Monthly Archives: December 2010

cpio: command not found

Posted on December 14, 2010 by vinhboy

Here, save yourself some head scratching with Git git clone file://localhost/path/to/the.git This is how you can clone a local git directory without using cpio.

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git push freezes and hung on compressing

Posted on December 11, 2010 by vinhboy

Today something odd happened on one of the git repo I manage. When I tried pushing my commit to the origin, it got to “compressing file” then hung there. Doubly worse, it was a server machine hosting a corporate website … Continue reading →

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Google Map and Gchat

Posted on December 10, 2010 by vinhboy

If you post a google map address into gchat, they automatically format it it into the address for you, instead of leaving an ugly http web address. This is why Google is the number one company on the web. This … Continue reading →

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Obama is a donkey

Posted on December 7, 2010 by vinhboy

I don’t mean to be disrespectful or offensive, but President Obama is the equivalent of a poker donkey. A fish. A noob. He’s the poker player that sits down at a table and plays the first hand dealt to him. … Continue reading →

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I did it before Google

Posted on December 5, 2010 by vinhboy

So a while ago, while I was knee deep in analytics, I wrote this blog entry about one of Google’s missteps. http://vinhboy.com/blog/2010/03/02/google-analytics-how-do-i-manually-track-clicks-on-outbound-links/ Basically Google was giving you bad advice, and I called them out on it. :) Finally, Google updated … Continue reading →

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Daniel Ellsberg

Posted on December 1, 2010 by vinhboy

The other day I caught an amazing documentary about the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Most Dangerous Man in America Without knowing much about the man, other than what I learned in this documentary, I have to add Daniel Ellsberg to … Continue reading →

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Why get married?

Posted on December 1, 2010 by vinhboy

I wanted to write this for a long time now, but never found the time, so here it is. What is the point of getting married? Well to be honest, as a male, when we decided to get married, I … Continue reading →

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