Mar
5th
Fri
5th
Stale
Man did my tumblr get stale. I hope to change that.
Mar
9th
Mon
9th
Tug
Mar
7th
Sat
7th
Observation
Update on Google AJAX Lib Stat Tracking Request
Stat tracking request in the Google AJAX API Loader remains questionable after reviewing a Googler’s response to @johnandrews , who will be posting it soon.
Mar
4th
Wed
4th
Installing Tweetdeck and Adobe Air on 64 bit Linux
First, Adobe Air on 64 bit Linux:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb408084&sliceId=1
Then Tweetdeck:
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
Book Review: Anathem
A friend helped me get a signed copy of Anathem when Stephenson was at the Union Square B&N… I should read it based on Matt’s review… I might like it. Its been a while since I got a good sci-fi escape.
Culling the Microblogosphere
Trying to figure out how others deal with the signal-to-noise ratio on twitter, tumblr, etc. ..
Mar
3rd
Tue
3rd
In reponse to John’s post about Why is Google hosting common Javascript/AJAX Libraries…
Google AJAX Loader API makes extra HTTP calls to do stat tracking on loads of the JS APIs (ie http://www.google.com/uds/stats?r0=el%7Cprototype ) A GET request is sent, and along with it a handful of cookies (perhaps the standard Google cookies, perhaps not - haven’t looked). Any ideas whats burried in there? See the attached request graph for an example.
Subsequent loads of a lib do make another HTTP request, which results in a 304 Not Modified response, but the request is also trackable. Bypassing the loader and getting at the JS libs directly does not cause the stat tracking to be called (and no cookies).
You Paid For It
@fields:
Wikileaks releases ~$1 billion worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. Huge. hyperorg.com/blogger…
We each contributed about $4 to that $1B. We should read it!
Mar
1st
Sun
1st
Bad Bank
This American Life had a great program on tonight on the banking system collapse and the various methods being considered to solve it… in plain english. Give it a listen when you can, and share to others. There is not enough understanding of the situation.
Feb
27th
Fri
27th
A “serious” Ubuntu-based Linux
CrunchBang Linux is the first distro I’ve seen in a long time which tickles all my favorite Linux points: small, fast, and simple. It isn’t trying to be “friendly” and certainly isn’t trying to look like Windows. It just wants to give you a platform for running apps and getting things done. I will install!
That looks like a very elegant desktop setup.
I used to gut my linux desktop distros in favor of using a combination of GNU Screen, ION window manager and a hot-key/macro engine whose name escapes me… My goal was to never have to have my hands leave the keyboard, all in the vein of trying to be uber-efficient. Today I’ve learned to configure Ubuntu or Kubuntu to be reasonably as effective, as the maintaince on such my custom setup, though simple, tended to make the novelty less appealing.
Time to try CrunchBang Linux… may be just what I wish I had 8 years ago!
People who are members of online social networks are not so much “networking” as they are “broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren’t necessarily inside the Dunbar circle.” Humans may be advertising themselves more efficiently. But they still have the same small circles of intimacy as ever.
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A recent piece in the Economist.
(via mikehudack)
And the recipients - they are consuming these broadcasts in their desired fashion - how, when and where… Not only is social networking and media enabling this, but the “web 2.0” architectures that drive them.
Feb
20th
Fri
20th
RT @elazar: If you’ve used SVN, you’ll probably find this funny. http://tinyurl.com/d7tx9z
Feb
15th
Sun
15th
Converting to Symfony image_tag()
Here is a quick and dirty regular expression to convert html img tags to Symfony image_tag() helper calls. I used it in NetBeans - you can run it in most regexp enabled editors. YMMV.
Search: <img src=”/images/([^”]*)” ([^>]*)>
Replace: <?php echo image_tag(‘$1’,’$2’); ?>
Feb
13th
Fri
13th
if you didn’t see it, EFF updated it’s Legal Guide for Bloggers http://tinyurl.com/ce59ok
