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blip.June 10, 2010 12:16 pm
Progammers Must All Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All… still GREAT after all these years http://ping.fm/rp1Cd
dueling beetles — hornicus vs. scarabæ
The sub-tropical southern United States, where I live, is rife with strange and amazing insects. These guys like porch lights. I’d dearly like to know more about them. Either that, or I’d like to see them go against each other … Continue reading
Self-Service Linux®: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination
I’ve been a Linux sysadmin a long time, and have a certain knack for tracking down system problems (so I’m told). In the midst of perhaps the worst set of hardware/software problems I’ve ever faced, I stumbled across this book … Continue reading
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Yeoman’s Work?
‘Yeoman work’ or ‘yeoman service’ is simply good, honest, hard work. A yeoman was a class of farmer, above a labourer but below a land-owner – a tenant farmer – who had (has) a reputation for hard toil. from phrases.org.uk; … Continue reading
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I feel like you’re my friend even though we’ve never talked face to face. Though there is a great divide between my culture and yours, I feel very happy for you that you are getting married to a beautiful young … Continue reading
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blip.April 30, 2010 12:45 pm
How ninjas watch their access logs: http://gist.github.com/385455 Please don’t chide me on my bash syntax, it gets the job done nicely and took about 3 minutes.
blip.April 30, 2010 6:14 am
Novel! I upgraded WordPress using FileMerge to compare files, saving the merge to my Dropbox, which auto-synced to my server. Bleeding-edge stuff that’s just too fun for words right now. I promise to disclose all soon!
Home office, as blogged from my iPhone using the WordPress app
So here I am at home, writing this on a device the size of a pack of index cards. Is this the future? Quite possibly.
Why I won’t be signing up for a Pixily account
I saw an ad in Evernote for Pixily Pixily a “secure document scanning service.”. I clicked, and was disappointed, because they don’t seem to understand security. Rather than the wise thing, which was to walk away, I decided to give … Continue reading
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Django, Pinax, and Humble Pie — My talk at Refresh Augusta
Django, Pinax, and Humble Pie View more documents from phredcode. These are the slides I used for my talk at Refresh Augusta today on Pinax and Django, and how I learned to be humble and rely on other people’s code. … Continue reading