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 === Bernie the rockstar ====
 
-If you were considering hiring me, or entrusting me to do anything serious, you'd better see this first:
+If you were considering hiring me, or entrusting me to do anything serious, you'd better watch this first:
 
  * [[BernieIronMaiden.ogg]] - [1.8MB] if you have the free OggTheora codec
  * [[BernieIronMaiden.mov]] - [3.6MB] if you're stuck with proprietary QuickTime codecs
  * nothing - [0MB] if you're stuck with the proprietary MediaPlayer or RealPlayer codecs
 
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+ Q: why doesn't my browser play the link right away rather than asking me to download it?
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+ A: because my wiki doesn't support mime-magic yet
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+ Q: why don't you just let apache serve media files?
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+ A: because a CGI has no way to "handoff" a file to the web server once they've been invoked
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 ==== Food and Power ====
 
 Here's a stupid movie by SamuelKlein, ArjunSarwal and myself: