Sparrow and closed source

Some grumbling on the tubes about the decision to discontinue development, and counter-grumbling about free software, and counter-counter-grumbling about how free software is useless (with which I disagree).

JOIN in PowerShell

A nice tutorial. I've often wondered how to do this but was too lazy to look it up.

Usenet is what?

Dare I say, up yours Lifehacker? They say:

Usenet is a wonderful service for finding and downloading digital media, giving you speed and reliability you won't find with other file-sharing options—like, say, BitTorrent.

That's funny. I was under the impression that Usenet, or Newnews, is

a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system.

That has some rogue groups dedicated to rather illicit activities. But what do I know.