Welcome to the first of (what I hope are) many posts where I share what I see as the real motives behind many of the events in our daily lives.
First up: The first every online Presidential Town Hall. Cool, huh? Obama bringing politics into the 21st century. Saving the government money by not traveling. Helping the environment by not using fuel on Air Force One. Giving the ‘little guy’ easier access to the President. This is all well-and-good, but what’s the real motive?
Unfortunately, I think it’s to collect names, addresses, and email for future political campaigns. To submit questions and vote on the ones President Obama will answer, you need to enter your contact information. This information will be used to contact people to try and gain support for future legislation, candidates, and the Presidents own re-election. As of right now, 92,927 have participated… seems to have worked.
Ok, some posts are clearly just to help me remember how to do things… this is one of them. The Subversion source control system keeps private information in .svn directories. There is one such directory for EVERY directory in your source tree. Here’s how you recursively delete ALL the .svn directories from the current directory in Linux (or Cygwin in Windows).
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`
NOTE: Those are back ticks around the ‘find’ command, not apostrophes. I recommend you just run the ‘find’ command first and verify it is listing the directories you expect.
