July 2010
3 posts
June 2010
9 posts
May 2010
5 posts
WatchCloud Montage
April 2010
3 posts
March 2010
3 posts
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More QR Goodness
Update to previous entry: since then, I’ve discovered that zebra crossing also has an online qr generator. It’ll generate a qr code for most any type of content using a magic form.
To pair up with the bookmarklets I showed yesterday, here is a bookmarklet to generate a qrcode for the current url: qrencode. The bookmarklet has the image dimensions hardcoded in the url. If you want a...
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QR Codes
Casey West, the devil that he is, turned me on to QR Code recently. I’ve seen these things popping up in ads and android-centric blogs in the last few months. At its core, qr code (and quickcode and a few other similar data types) are 21st century barcodes. They carry a lot more data in a redundant fashion. Their first niche was commercial package tracking and then Japanese culture found...
February 2010
1 post
2 tags
irc.perl.org - State Of The Network
It’s time for the first ever State Of The Network report for
irc.perl.org. We’re entering a new era in the evolution of the network
and it’s time we started communicating a bit better with our users.
Until recently, we, as operations staff, kept quiet and did our thing.
Servers came; servers went; we kept to ourselves. Recently, we had a bit
of a wake-up call. Thanks to an...
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
4 posts
1 tag
Archiving Etherpad
In case you missed it, Google acquired a company called Appjet on Friday. Their main product is Etherpad, a multi-user collaborative notepad. Their initial press release announced the immediate suspension of new activity on the site, with all content to disappear at the end of March. Since Friday, bowing to massive community pressure, Google/Appjet have announced the eventual opensourcing of...
November 2009
8 posts
2012
The movie… If the end of the world is going to be that boring, I’m going to kill myself now and avoid the torture. The first 30-45 minutes of the movie are what I expected: disaster porn. An absolutely ridiculous rollercoaster where tidbits of plot served only as a vehicle to carry me into the next scene of shit blowing up.
And then…. it became serious business. Here’s...
Thanksgiving
Here on american Thanksgiving, I’m keenly aware of all it took to get us americans, we humanity, and me specifically to this place, to this time in history. We americans usually think of pilgrims and native americans celebrating life and friendship. The flipside to that story is that they were celebrating a very hard year and looking into what would be a very hard winter. The days ahead...
I’m rediscovering that the keys to a happy geek life are:
Good typography
Scriptability
Automation
An excellent soundtrack
Copious amounts of caffeine
On Perl5 and Perl6 →
The p5/p6 discussion has come back around again. As always, there are quite a few
folks weighing in. And, if for no other reason, than to hear my virtual
gums smack around, I’ll toss my pesos…
“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.”
– Ayn Rand
October 2009
4 posts
September 2009
4 posts
