According to my Linux Calendar, this is the anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to move to the back of the bus AND of Martin Luther King's boycott two years later, AND the independence of both Portugal and the Central African Republic And it is even Anniversary Day in Chatham Islands (when everyone celebrates their anniversary, I suppose).
Here is the full output from my Linux Calendar:
- DEC 01
- Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
- DEC 01
- First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
- DEC 01
- Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
- DEC 01
- Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
- DEC 01
- Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence in Portugal
- DEC 01
- Independence Day in Central African Republic
- DEC 01
- World AIDS Day
- DEC 01
- Ian Jackson became Debian Project Leader, 1997
- DEC 01
- Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Florence.
- DEC 01
- N'oubliez pas les Ãloi !
- DEC 01
- Bonne fête aux Airy !
- DEC 01
- ÐÑемиÑнÑй Ð´ÐµÐ½Ñ Ð±Ð¾ÑÑÐ±Ñ Ñо СÐÐÐом
- DEC 01
- First Sunday of Advent (4th Sunday before Christmas)
- DEC 01
- National Holiday in United Arab Emirates
- DEC 01
- Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Viviane.
- DEC 01
- Washingtoner Abkommen über Bi-Zone, 1946
- DEC 01
- 1. oder 2. Advent
- DEC 01
- Anniversary Day (Chatham Islands)
If you have Linux, you can open a terminal window and type in "Calendar" and this will let you see YOUR Linux calendar. Or, you can type in "cal" and see something entirely different...
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And who would have known were it not for my Linux Calendar....
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Silly me, I'd figured that the first Sunday in Advent would fall on ... don't get ahead of me here ... a Sunday.
I always wondered about Linux. :-)
Linux is not that good at religion....
Linus Torvalds isn't famous for being religious...
BTW Greg, there's something wrong in the character encodings of the page. Your text is in UTF-8, but Firefox treats it as ISO-8859-1, because a meta tag in the page template says so. And the -1 version should be replaced with -15 that includes the euro sign.
The encodings have bugged me some time, because they bork the sexy umlaut in my name. The only way to get it correctly is to post directly, not via the preview window.
Uffda...
That's helpful. The transformation from a calendar file to a post is something I hope to have totally automated one day, as a proof of concept. Character encoding is obviously a problem, but an interesting challenge (many of the calendar files are written in, well, languages.) Note also that these are
formatted lines (I won't say what "DL" stands for) and you can't tell this, but the formatting is not correct there either.
Someday I hope to be able to type:
calendar -option | formatter | uploader.py
or better yet, have cron do that every two days forever.
fantastic! A complete day for every tastes...
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2311958