So I’m reading Reamde because I happened by the CBPL and against all odds they had it on the shelf. The benefits of being one of the few cyberthriller readers in the metro area that didn’t pre-order on Amazon or just torrent the thing I guess. Anyway, there is a part where the main character…
It’s probably not the most brilliant observation but it just came to me today that Facebook is basically LiveJournal, only with more adults and fewer kitty animated gifs. The more they play with friends and groups, the stronger the correlation becomes. Not sure if this is a feature or a bug. Also, the upcoming profile…
I always feel like I’m rabbiting away at the Hall of Justice when I get email from Super-User. Even if it is just a reminder than I need to update my password.
I think “first world problems” is the intelligentsia’s “you may be a redneck if…” To wit: If you’re complaining that your download from MSDN is running at a measly 650KB/sec average, you’re experiencing first world problems. And yet, I can’t believe how long it is taking to download some old-assed .iso so I can build…
Seems simple in that “WTF is up with me not doing that until now” kind of way but setting up all of your web content in SVN and then using svn export to deploy to your production server just plain rocks. Version control–which is desirable on its face The model enforces backing up–your deployment is…
Looks like the migration is mostly complete. A little less painful than anticipated all things considered. Not a lot of planning up front and it looks like the main pieces came across with only minor hair pulling. I can’t believe 10 years of accumulated clutter on $OLD_WEB_HOST was this easy to move. Even if things…
Brighton Cambridge Chelsea Essex Geneva Hamburg Holland Holstein Lisbon Luxemburg Macedonia Madrid Manchester Marathon Marne Moravia Moscow Norway Oxford Pella Pomeroy Portsmouth Protivin Rhodes Rome Sheffield Stratford Volga Waterloo Westphalia Now with added map So…what am I missing?
I know it’s a topic I come back to now and again, but only because it is one of the most useful “technologies” to come out of my WorldWideWeb experience. The ability to essentially bookmark something of interest and then have that thing tell you when something happens to it is a remarkable way to…
For what seems like forever, a certain list-serv list on a topic of academic research interest has been a mere dribble of traffic in my Inbox. Most of the traffic being the monthly “you’re subscribed to List-FOO” and occasional position postings, most of which are in the UK. I know I stopped monitoring the list…
I’ve been tinkering with pulling all of my generated content on other sites into a single, browsable, About Me kind of page here on SRT. On the flip side, I’ve been toying with how to create a nice portal that collects all of the various bits of content people I like create on various social…