Archive for November, 2005
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23 Nov 2005
I updated the Greasemonkey script “Flickr More Home” today. It used to get its data from the RSS feelds, but I’d had problems with the feeds not actually showing my contacts’ most recent photos. Plus they’d always be missing non-public photos that I had access to.
So now it uses the HTML pages to get the list of photos instead. I don’t know if that’s harder on Flickr’s servers (it’s certainly less elegant), but since it caches them, it’s only really two more hits per Flickring session.
Update 14 Dec – Fixed to work with Greasemonkey 0.6.4
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15 Nov 2005
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has a blog that I was pointed to by a cow-orker a couple weeks ago. Half-surprisingly, he’s very well written, funny, and intelligent; so it makes a pretty good read. And he posts quite regularly.
The other day, he posted about the Evolution versus Intelligent Design debate. He didn’t debate the issue, mind you (he says “I’m not a believer in Intelligent Design, Creationism, Darwinism, free will, non-monetary compensation, or anything else I can’t eat if I try hard enough”), he decided instead to discuss the discussion.
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11 Nov 2005
Although there’s a chance that she may get a couple more in the next week or two, it’s very likely that M’s received all the requests for interviews that she can expect. The following are the interviews she’s scheduled, in chronological order:
- University of Connecticut in Farmington, CT (two separate interviews for two different programs)
- George Washington University in Washington, DC
- Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, PA
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA
- University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD
- Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, CT
- Boston Medical Center (associated with Boston University) in Boston, MA
- Mt. Auburn Hospital (associated with Harvard) in Cambridge, MA
- Lahey Clinic (associated with Tufts) in Burlington, MA (just north of Cambridge)
- Brown Medical School in Providence, RI
Solely based on percentages and how much we know about the cities, the Boston area looks pretty likely. All of the interviews are between Thanksgiving and January 13. She has to have her list sorted by February 22. Match Day is March 16. Exciting!
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10 Nov 2005
Welcome to WordPress. This is my first post with the new system. Things are going to be a little hairy here for the next week or so, as I make things work the way I want them. But the important things are all set.
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6 Nov 2005
I’m abandoning Moveable Type (the blog software I use right now) for something less.. er.. big-endian. I’ve been having issues with MT lately, and I’ve heard good things about WordPress for a long time. Also, using MT templates and plugins to make the integrated home page is a bit complex. I’m thinking about switching to something like Planet. While I’m at it, the design for the page will likely be simplified and tweaked, but I’m going to try to keep it largely recognizable.
I think I’ve made this kind of announcement in the past, but this time I’m serious.
Update 8 Nov: The home page and the uberfeed are Planet-powered, now.
Update 10 Nov: And now everything is WordPress. So long, MT.