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AIR INDIA IS DISGUSTING! EPIC FAIL.
READ THIS. This is a phone conversation I just had with an Air India employee (a mistake, to begin with). Mind you, I have polished her English a little bit:
"Hi, I need to book a ticket from Mumbai to Denver."
"Denver?"
"Yes. Denver, Colorado. In USA. I need one for July. Anywhere between 7th and 17th of July. Whichever is least expensive."
"Ok sir. [long pause] What date sir?"
"Any day between 7th and 17th of July."
"Is it one-way or return ticket?"
"One-way"
"Ok sir, let me look." [long hold] "Yes sir we have a flight to New York. From there to langarda (?! - that's supposed to be LaGuardia - she wants me to 'go' from NY to LaGuardia!). And from there to Denmark."
"I'm sorry, Denmark?!? You mean Denver, right?"
"Yes sir, Danvar. Sir I can only give you rough fare sir."
"What do you mean rough fare? Why rough fare? I need a specific fare."
"Sir because Air India is only till New York. After that you have to go in another flight."
"Which is the connecting airline?"
"American Airlines sir."
"Okay, I see. What's the fare?"
"Sir it's Rs. xx,xxx."
"Okay, what date is this for?"
"I put in May sir... Sir what date did you ask for?"
"What date did you search for??"
"Sir I put in May."
"Ma'am, I specifically told you July! 7th to 17th July."
"Yes sir, I put in July."
"Whaat? What are you saying?"
"Yes sir, I put in one-way for May and return in July. Sir this is rough fare sir."
"I told you I need one-way!! Madam, are you even listening to me??"
[BEEEEEEEEEP]
SHE HUNG UP! SHE HUNG UP ON ME! AFTER GIVING ME THAT CRAP! %#@^@#!#%!!!
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Some handy bash commands
On Linux shells, I always feel pretty crummy about getting around quickly via cd. So, in the spirit of Daniel's up command, here's a few other quick-directory commands to add to your .bashrc:
# down somesubdir
#
# Find a directory below this that matches the word provided
# (locate-based)
function down() {
dir=""
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
dir=.
fi
dir=$(locate -n 1 -r $PWD.*/$1$)
cd "$dir";
}# cdd someglobaldir
#
# quickly change to a directory anywhere that matches the word you typed.
# best if your locatedb is in good shape
function cdd() {
dir=""
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
dir=.
fi
dir=$(locate -n 1 -r $1$)
cd "$dir";
}
Other variations that I tried:
# Not breadth-first, so less fun sometimes
function down2()
{
dir=""
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
dir=.
fi
dir=$(find . -type d -iname $1 | head -n 1)
cd "$dir"; } # Breadth-first, but really slow
function down3()
{
# create a list of all directories in the current folder
dirlist=( $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d) )
dirlist=( ${dirlist[@]:1} ) # exclude . # loop through the list
while [ $dirlist ]
do
# check the head of the list to see if it matches needle
val=${dirlist[0]}
found=`expr match "$val" ".*$1.*"`
if [ $found -gt 0 ]; then
# change dirs, we found the first match
cd "$val";
break # done
else
# not found!
# scan that new directory for subdirs
appendlist=( $(find $val -maxdepth 1 -type d) )
appendlist=( ${appendlist[@]:1} ) # exclude .
# add those subdirs to the tail of the dirlist
dirlist=( ${dirlist[@]:1} ${appendlist[@]} ) # rinse, repeat
fi
done }
Control which blogs you autopost to. And Wordpress categories
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Send an email to #url@posterous.com. If the part after the '#' appears anywhere in your site url, we will autopost there.
For example, if you have:
username.wordpress.com
nickname.wordpress.com
username.typepad.com
twitter.com/username
If you email #wordpress+twitter@posterous.com, we will autopost to the two wordpress sites, and all your twitters. If you email #username@posterous.com, we will autopost only to the three sites with 'username' in the url.
Also, we now pass categories to your Wordpress blogs. Tag your posts by email using the normal syntax. If any of those tags exist on your Wordpress blog as categories, they will get added. Click here to see how to tag posts by email.
