December 2009
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Apologies to planet cosi
I didn’t realize that my tumblr account was still hooked to planetcosi through feedburner. On the cool side it was very easy to change through feedburner, I’d totally recommend using it to the rest of you. On the not cool side it was an interweb spam canon. From now on planetcosi will only be getting posts I’ve tagged at tech.
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Another twitter tool? Amazing. →
Cute little tool that watches your twitter feed. It resolves short URLs, kills dupes and gives you a feed for google reader or whatever. Pretty cool.
November 2009
63 posts
'I'm going to tell my son the worst swearword in... →
My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there’s a worse swearword than fuck. “No,” I say.
There’s a silence. “You’re lying,” he says.
“There’s none worse than fuck,” I say.
Joel narrows his eyes. “I know you’re lying,” he says. He leaves the room.
Wallpapers, Photos, Pictures, Desktop Wallpapers,... →
It’s great that national geographic is sharing some of their photos specifically for wallpaper. It’s a shame they are only going up to 1280x1024 though.
Brooklyn Brew Shop | Store →
I have a small apartment in the city, as much as I liked making my own beer I just don’t have the space for the equipment, let alone a 5 gallon batch of beer. Brooklyn Brew Shop makes 1 gallon kits…
DVI to HDMI overscan (screen edge cutoff) on an... →
My resolution ended up being at the TV. My Philips had a setting called “Unscaled” that did the 1:1 pixel mapping that you mentioned. For others reading this, I am not terribly happy with the…
Great Boxee →
This is a step by step guide to writing your first Boxee app. This is basically how I got started, so I hope it helps.
Boxee Support :: Where can i get some... →
Boxee is an open platform, inviting people to write new applications for it. Some of the Boxee applications were written and published by the Boxee team, but the rest are being published by the…
A proposed war surtax →
squashed:
The proposal would raise income taxes to pay for the Afghanistan war. The proposal seeks to both raise revenue and spread awareness of how much the war costs.
There will be a Dr. Horrible sequel →
There will be a second Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon said in a Thursday conference call with reporters to promote Dollhouse. The main question, he says, is whether he does it “on a shoe string again” or goes bigger budget and “invites other people into the process.” Either way, he promises that it won’t affect the storyline.
CouchDBX — The one-click CouchDB Package for your... →
CouchDB for Mac. That’s was a little too easy.
“American political opportunities and heavily loaded against those who are...”
– Richard Dawkins - An athiest’s call to arms
Viewing PDF files with Google →
To view a PDF file without any plugins, append the URL of the file to the end of the address shown here in bold type:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.example.com/file.pdf
Archive Binge - Comics →
Saw this on lifehacker a while ago. Rather than reading all of a particular web comic you can set up a trickle to yourself starting at the beginning. Rad.
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Holiday Giving
It’s the holiday season yet again. Usually I participate in holiday charities though work, but this year there doesn’t seem to be much going on in the office beyond yearly charity contribution commitments. I got a catalog from Heifer International yesterday and after a little bit of background checking I’ve decided that this year I’m going to go with it.
I like the option...
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Cthulhu? Python? This is gonna be brilliant.
Coding Horror is usually a good read, sometimes it’s just way too long and I skip it, but there are a few posts that are memorable. The one from earlier this week called Parsing HTML the Cthulhu Way was spectacular.
Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions. Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and...
Take that VMware! →
The Karate Chop:
vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/<datastorename>/<vmname>/<vmname>.vmx stop
or The Finger of Death (Be warned this no holds barred move will attempt to kill the VM instantly):
vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/<datastorename>/<vmname>/<vmname>.vmx stop hard
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WatchI think this may be a holiday project, I haven’t played enough with my Arduino and I think it might be a nice way to hassle the cat.
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copycats:
Good Ol’ Fashion Rump Shaker by The...
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PDX Food Carts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ame/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Shortly after I moved to Portland I was at a business conference telling co-workers how much I liked it. Another dude at the table was from San Francisco turned to me and said,
“Seriously? Portland, it has the worst of the weather and the worst food on the west coast, you could have at least made it to Seattle.”
I’d only...
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Build a Cheap But Powerful Boxee Media Center -... →
Some notes on turning a beige box into a boxee powerhouse. Kinda challenges my Tivo / pyTivo / NAS setup. I’m thinking the Dell Zino HD might make a better machine (pricewise at least) but some quick…
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Hey, Clarkbw!
topherchris:
All the East Coast people are asleep. Let’s talk shit about them.
copycats:
Burning Down The House (Live) by Dave...
