January 2008
52 posts
“There’s a lot happening on the island…and we’ll get to it all…after...”
– LOST
“…the Python folks have it so nice. Their language is easy to understand and this...”
– Curtis Poe on Reading Code Versus Understanding a Language
That quote nicely sums up what made me so happy about Python, over Perl, all those years ago.
“Grade-A bad-assery! My hat is off to you, sir!”
– anon, in the comments of “Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?”
In agreement, my hat is likewise…off. (via skadz)
Slashdot News Headline: Geologists Claim Earth May Be Softer Around The Middle Than Previously Thought
Brier News Headline: Wife Makes Similar Claim About Husband
“Diapers before all things. This is how it shall be.”
– Merlin Mann
Why the MacBook Air (and your laptop) are slow →
Interesting perspective.
The "Work From Home" Generation →
Working from home has been an incredible boon for me, both in terms of quality of life and work. I’m much more productive at home than at the office and being home let’s me avoid my hellish commute and spend time with my family that I just wouldn’t otherwise get. On the days that I do go into the office, when I get home the kid is already in bed, my wife has already had dinner,...
“…the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs
I’m cleaning up and modernizing my .bashrc, which has
shockingly grown to 870 lines of mostly old crap over 15
years or so. Amongst a plethora of nostalgia inspiring pieces I
came across this one:
case $HOSTTYPE in
NeXT) stty -extproc crtbs crterase ctlecho;;
sgi) stty dec; stty swtch '^Z' erase '^h';;
esac
Ah, my good old NeXT and Indy workstations.
And I remember...
“Throw your arms in the air.” — The Sound of...
Pownce opens to the public with friend finder
Pownce opened up to the public today,
including a new feature to allow you to find your friends on
Pownce from your other online networks. I applaud the
feature—anything to interconnect and lessen the redundancy in
our social networks is grand—but I’ve got a suggestion for the
implementation.
Months ago Pownce implemented the Other Profiles section of
your page where you can include all...
WatchDolphins Play with Bubble Rings (via Metacafe) — corcarpemei
@skadz: Now comes the quandary…who do you support, home town or own town?
“Oh, and one last thing. I told you so. There, that felt good.”
– Mark Baker
Rube Goldberg →
Watch this for a few seconds, so cool! — goldshan — david
Sun is buying MySQL →
Well, that’s interesting.
“And all you haters can… well, buy one in six months, when you realize how...”
– Wil Shipley right on, I think, about the MacBook Air.
With the heat working again and the radiators steaming up, it sounds like the Red October in here. “One ping only, please.”
For the 5th time in 2 years the heat is broken. 58 degrees inside the house and dropping. Good times.
@cdent: Simper fi! (Yes, I am just going to keep doing it.)
@avalade: @skadz and I have a mysterious and shadowy past as Jedi Baristas. The Espresso is strong with us.
@skadz: Bastard.
15 acres of snow shoveled; blood/coffee level dangerously low. Remediation underway.
The boy is down for a nap; the dad is out for a snow shovel.
twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter →
Simon Willison finds all these cool little experiments. This one is an OpenID server that authenticates by sending you a direct tweet.
It looks broken right at the moment, but a cool idea for a mobile means of authentication.
NoScript seems like a good idea →
But, it’s sort of pointless for me because I’m so reliant on my toolbar bookmarklets. In order for them to work I have to globally enable scripts, which seems counter to the whole point of NoScript.
@skadz: What a game. Two big upsets.
Robots beat out Rangers tonight, for me.
Wheeling and dealing with car salesman sucks.
Even better, I’m blind. It’s not ‘w’ but ‘vv’. Me give up.
Ha, that’s funny. I have an issue on the new hardware with the ‘w’ key sticking in software when I close windows. Thus, a tweet of just ‘w’.
“When I started this blog back in the nineties, I dreamed that one day I could...”
– Davenetics* : The Best Peanut Butter in the World via kottke
“The Flickr implementation, coupled with their existing API, means we could all...”
– Dan Brickley on Flickr and Yahoo’s upcoming OpenID support.
Oooooh! I’ve been thinking about this since I discovered OpenID. I think I’m more excited by the prospect of OpenID-based ACLs than I am about the SSO. Thanks to cdent for the pointer.
@cdent: Simper fi!
Remembering to look at the alt tags on xkcd.
Of all the things I miss about my Powerbook I think I miss the illuminated keyboard the most. I never would have predicted that.
In my stocking this year were two presents with tags. The tags read:
When it moves and shouldn’t.
and…
When it should move and doesn’t.
The first was a roll of duct tape, the second a can of WD-40.