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• Another day in the car and now returned to Bogota's milder climate. Medellin was beautiful! #

• In our nice hotel in Medellin after a looong day's car ride. The temperature is 25c. Hello my first warm christmas! #

• After spending a nice week and a half in Bogota visiting with Daniela's family we're off to Medellin with just us and the parents for xmas! #

So now Yahoo is shutting down Delicious. I really can’t think of a single service that has been made better under Yahoo, and plenty that have died horrible slow deaths after taking off so quickly and getting bought for decent prices. Yahoo is where you go to die, even if you are healthy.

Anyways, a quick and simple backup command to get an XML file of your bookmarks from Delicious care of Ixiaus 9 on Hacker News

curl https://{your username}:{your password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > bookmarks.xml

Ha, coupled with massive lay offs just before xmas I think Yahoo’s holiday spirit can be summed up in “Bah Humbug!”

• Boarding a plane to Colombia via Huston! Here we go! #
• Touch down in Huston. 2 hours to eat and charge electronics #
• So does Ubuntu 10.10 not suck out of the box on any hardware? Cus I've just installed it on computer #3 and it again has major issues #
• Boarded flight to Colombia! Lift off (hopefully) shortly to follow #
• Landed safely in Colombia! @drallab hilarious you saw it before I could tweet #

• So if you're bored in a mac store and open a terminal on a display comp the staff gather round distrustfully quickly and ask you questions #

• Defective and accidently over aggressive but highest scoring bot (over later fixed & "improved" version) GO! #

• I <3 @xach. He is heroically making solid well thought out utils for Common Lisp to make it the modern dev environment we need it to be, thx #

• Waiting for library printer to print 4 pages, I've now seen it refilled twice. 30m wait. Wtf with ppl printing 100s of pages here? #

• Aaawesome. Participated in an UbuntuForums thread decrying the new 10.10 netbook edition and had it shutdown! promising http://bit.ly/b7Exb1 #