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You’re probably already familiar with ssh’s portforwarding abilities — where ssh -L8000:somehost:80 otherhost will set up an encrypted tunnel where local connections to port 8000 will be tunneled through to otherhost and then connected to port 80 on somehost from there — and if you’re like me you might even have a couple of shell […]

Got my scanner working again, so here’s a couple of things I’ve been meaning to scan for a while. President’s Choice named their Ritz-alike crackers after Candice and I: And this is a skateboard-safety pamphlet that Health and Safety was distributing at work. Have they made skateboards like that in the last thirty years? Don’t […]

Candice and I are engaged! We’ve been talking about getting married for a while now — I think we mostly started thinking about it when my cousin Scott got married last October. It was a small wedding officiated by a Humanist, and both of those got us talking about what we’d do when we got […]

This is just odd. Tell me how this functionality could be useful: $ export testf=’() { echo test; }’ $ bash $ testf test In ten years I’ve never thought “Boy, I wish I could import shell functions from my environment upon invocation”, but maybe I’m missing something obvious.