A decent number of things are blocked where I work. SSH is not. I usually use git via SSH. I did want to clone someone's repo that was shared over the git protocol, so I typed in the git-clone command, and waited. It timed out. The quick fix would be to clone it to my home machine, and then clone it over ssh. I never like doing that though, I like origin being the actual origin. I decided that it shouldn't be too hard to get a clone to work, so I did a bit of googling. I figured that if git had any support for a proxy server, it'd be possible one way or another.

I figured that I could use a combination of the "netcat" utility and ssh to get the desired result. I found the following article: http://twopenguins.org/tips/git-through-proxy.php that ...

All through High School, I struggled in English class. I never broke a C in any English class I ever took. When I got to college, I managed a B in my Freshman English class. I find myself looking up those pesky grammar rules, and even submitting tickets and patches to emerging open source projects which were written by people like me-- lots of spelling errors and some ugly grammar mistakes.

I've contributed to Django's documentation. I submitted a patch to fix "noone" ("no one" is correct.) in a couple places on the open source MMORPG called "The Mana World."

I've become almost a professional note taker, and I get irked when I have a teacher who uses all caps in an outline, or consistently spells something wrong that a spell checker is sure to have complained about.

I was driven nuts when I opened a handout ...