Archive for April, 2007
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27 Apr 2007RHEL5 is shipping with a one page SLA. This is amazing.
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27 Apr 2007Ten years ago today, 3D Realms mentioned the followup to the groundbreaking Duke Nukem 3D for the first time. It remains a work in progress, perhaps the greatest hoax ever perpetrated.
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27 Apr 2007
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26 Apr 2007Bruce Schneier is my hero. That RIT story is a little scary.
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26 Apr 2007It's Starcraft's turn, that's for damn sure.
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25 Apr 2007♫
Recently listened to: MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Rising, The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth, Frou Frou - Details (more)
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25 Apr 2007Sunset over Boston
From the Sugar Bowl at the end of South Boston. This was Monday, when it was 85. The kitesurfers were having a great time.
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24 Apr 2007I'm totally going to do this. Look for a hell of a lot of photos on 5/5.
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24 Apr 2007
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21 Apr 2007Done moving
It took a total of about 7 hours to move Brian and Colin from Waltham to Somerville. But teamwork at the new apartment made it all go a lot faster than we all expected.
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20 Apr 2007More and more US and world governments are taking stands against proprietary closed-source software. Will Massachusetts be next? I hope so.
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20 Apr 2007MeFiSwap 2007
My CDs for MeFiSwap 2007 are all done and I'm going to drop them in the mail over lunch.
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20 Apr 2007Huge update. My first impression is that it's great, but there's a lot here. It's going to take a while to soak it all in.
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19 Apr 2007A spelling-bee-esque competition to define words, tonight at the Brattle. For adults! With beer! $5 to attend or compete.
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19 Apr 2007
For the last year or so, I've been using Planet to aggregate my del.icio.us links (white background), Flickr photos (blue), blog posts (yellow), and recently Last.fm music history (tiny text with eighth notes). I knew from day one that there were a few shortcomings, but I was able to code around most of them, like collapsing multiple consecutive items from the same source into one (like how photos show up with "and 3 more"). And I needed to write plutor.org twice, in two totally different templating languages. But in the last few weeks, several minor annoyances have become bigger. I never liked having my archives across several different sites. And some feeds are too short (Flickr, occasionally, but definitely Last.fm). Since planet was totally stateless, and just grabbed the RSS on every execution, once something fell off the source feed, it'd be gone. Even if it didn't yet need to fall off plutor.org.
Starting today, I'm using FeedWordPress to import these external feeds directly into Wordpress. No more Planet necessary. There's a totally separate list of things I need to code around, and some of them are less trivial than they used to be. But I'm hoping that getting that data pulled into Wordpress will allow me to make plutor.org even more complete than it already is. Twitter? Netflix? What else can I integrate?