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Somehow google managed to replace my name with my son's in various people's address books. Now it's gone and done it with akpm@linux-foundation.org as well as akpm@google.com. I'm in a losing fight trying to prevent those two identities from getting intermingled, absorbed and generally borgified. And how did google know that we're related? I can only think that it snarfed that connection from facebook.

-- ~~Andrew~~ Matt Morton

If people have to think for a moment about the concise expression, well, great, I don't mind people having to think about kernel code.

-- Hugh Dickins

About two years ago, before Alex was my fiancée, we were discussing things people do for good causes. She declared she would never shave off her hair. She says she doesn't remember the conversation...

-- But Rusty Russell always remembers things like that; you have been warned

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Posted Mar 8, 2012 18:30 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] (4 responses)

And will Rusty shave his hair?

I do not know what he looks like. Perhaps he is bald and has no beard or mustache. So perhaps he should grow hair in that case. I wonder how much money he would raise for charity.

:-)

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Posted Mar 8, 2012 21:20 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]

You wont get much for it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell

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Posted Mar 8, 2012 23:36 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

If Rusty had a way of getting bald men to grow hair, he wouldn't need a *charity drive* to raise money.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012 0:30 UTC (Fri) by rusty (guest, #26) [Link] (1 responses)

Shaving my head would be a non-event, indeed.

More importantly, this is my chance to have more hair than Alex for almost two weeks. Bwahaha!

Thanks!
Rusty.

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Posted Mar 16, 2012 10:29 UTC (Fri) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

Well a bald man is ok but a bald woman might feel that much discomfort, and for a reason. We shouldn't treat them just like the code, really.

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Posted Mar 8, 2012 19:56 UTC (Thu) by volfy (guest, #8026) [Link] (8 responses)

Sounds like a great charity.

Also, using $ for both USD and AUD is confusing. I'm so glad euros and pounds have their own symbols.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012 0:34 UTC (Fri) by rusty (guest, #26) [Link] (5 responses)

It is a great charity.

Yes, and it would be easier to raise $USD at the moment. I will accept bitcoins though!

Cheers,
Rusty.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012 18:59 UTC (Fri) by jackb (guest, #41909) [Link] (4 responses)

Can you provide a donation link for people who think that mentoring at-risk children is a great idea but don't want their donation to contribute to pointless destruction?

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Posted Mar 10, 2012 1:10 UTC (Sat) by rusty (guest, #26) [Link] (3 responses)

The 'donate' link seemed pretty prominent on the website (the donation gauge also leads to the same place), but here it is:

http://www.givenow.com.au/timeforkidsalexbaldtarget

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Posted Mar 10, 2012 1:19 UTC (Sat) by jackb (guest, #41909) [Link] (2 responses)

Yes, I saw that link but I didn't see any obvious way to donate to the charity without indicating that I want your fiancee to shave her hair off.

That just seems bizarre and sadistic.

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Posted Mar 13, 2012 13:36 UTC (Tue) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link] (1 responses)

If you go to http://www.timeforkids.com.au/ then you can donate directly to the charity. It's not majorly obvious on the Alex donation page, but it is there.

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Posted Mar 26, 2012 6:44 UTC (Mon) by rusty (guest, #26) [Link]

Indeed, several people have explicitly donated to the charity without linking it to this campaign.

In retrospect, it seems clear that we should have had "baldalex.org" and "savealex.org" and highest result wins...

Thanks!
Rusty.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012 15:46 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

>Also, using $ for both USD and AUD is confusing. I'm so glad euros and pounds have their own symbols.

£/₤ also denote{s,d} Italian Lira. Such glyphs are the Comic Sans in finance: one should (preferably always) use the ISO codes to avoid running into exactly these ambiguities.

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Posted Mar 16, 2012 0:25 UTC (Fri) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link]

Wikipedia map of currency symbols: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Curren...