[03:57] <Takyoji> Hmm; apparently there's a Twin Cities PHP user group, but appears very dead.
[03:58] <Takyoji> Like; 5 years dead
[04:00] <tonyyarusso> typical...
[04:00] <tonyyarusso> Computers got all commonplace, and the Twin Cities users groups for Linux, PHP, Java, etc. died simultaneously.
[04:31] <kermit> since the internet, i havent figured out how to meet people locally
[04:31] <tonyyarusso> Ugh.  I hate init scripts that can fail without logging anything whatsoever.
[04:32] <kermit> (previously, i did via BBSes)
[04:39] <mr_steve> I miss when BBSs were still relevent
[04:51] <Takyoji> such as phpBB3, or?
[04:52] <kermit> Takyoji: what such as phpBB3?
[04:52] <Takyoji> "mr_steve: I miss when BBSs were still relevent"
[04:53] <kermit> i doubt any BBSes were written with php
[04:53] <tonyyarusso> Was PHP even around early enough for that to happen?
[04:53] <kermit> it "appeared in" 1995
[04:53] <kermit> so, no
[04:53] <Takyoji> Misunderstood "BBS"
[04:54] <Takyoji> Was interpreting BBS as "forum"
[04:56] <Takyoji> Anyone golf clapping for http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/ubuntu-software-centre-gets-brand-new.html?
[04:58] <Takyoji> then again, still no checkboxes (which probably won't ever be added)
[05:04] <mr_steve> Whoops, I wasn't paying attention there. I was talking about dial-up BBSes
[05:06] <kermit> was anyone here on twinlink, troppus, or runestone?
[05:07] <mr_steve> Nope. Bucket Brigade, Graveyard, and occasionally L'etoille Du Nord(sp?) and Hard Drive Cafe
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[22:28] <Takyoji> Kind of makes me headdesk when government files are in Microsoft Word format..
[22:28] <Takyoji> http://broadband.gov/
[22:31] <Obsidian1723> inefficeny at its finiest. what else woulkd you expect?
[22:31] <Obsidian1723> Government to be ope nand free?
[22:31] <Obsidian1723> Ogvernment does not solve problems, it susidizes them.
[22:31] <tonyyarusso> Takyoji: Indeed.  This is why I submitted an open document formats resolution at my party caucus.
[22:32] <tonyyarusso> it passed my precinct and the senate district whittling committee unanimously, so we'll be discussing it at the senate district convention tomorrow.
[22:37] <Takyoji> Ooo
[22:40] <kermit> tonyyarusso: very cool, thank you