December 31, 2009

Sweet and Spicy Chicken Curry

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/12/sweet-and-spicy-chicken-curry-recipe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseats%2Frecipes+%28Serious+Eats%3A+Recipes%29 this would be good to make
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

AeroDynamic Aviation: RHV Airport Webcam

http://www.aerodynamicaviation.com/webcam/ nice! now you can see where our airplane used to live
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

December 29, 2009

Grub 2 Basics - Ubuntu Forums

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 I want to get around to reading this someday
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

December 28, 2009

NYTProf v3 – Worth the wait! « Not this…

http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/12/24/nytprof-v3-worth-the-wait/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PlanetPerl+%28Planet+Perl%29&utm_content=Google+Reader total kick ass work
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

December 26, 2009

Sierra On-Line Electronic Christmas Card "A COMPUTER CHRISTMAS" AGI 1986

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w4xECgTYkE&feature=PlayList&p=F3184FA516B5C255&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2 well that sure brings back memories
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Ask proggit: are there any hash algorithm that can tell 0% - 100% likeness of two binary files? Let's say let's say hash 0xffffffff and 0xfffffffe means the two files are 87.5% alike

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ail7k/ask_proggit_are_there_any_hash_algorithm_that_can/ ssdeep and simhashing
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

December 23, 2009

Tiger's Wood - Reality Kings

http://www.rk.com/tigerswood.htm holy crap that's funny!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Vine seeds become 'giant gliders'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8391000/8391345.stm nature is quite the inventor
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-lsof/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catonmat+%28good+coders+code%2C+great+reuse%29&utm_content=Google+Reader a good introduction to lsof
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

December 21, 2009

Sup Rocks

http://taint.org/2009/12/18/005520a.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PlanetPerl+%28Planet+Perl%29&utm_content=Google+Reader interesting linux console email client I hadn't seen. oh, and Justin works for Amazon now, huh?
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

December 18, 2009

Must-Have R Packages for Social Scientists

http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=1614 if I ever start to play with R
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Cruise Ships - Long Beach, CA - Los Angeles Harbor -

http://www.sanpedro.com/spcom/crusshp2.htm information about cruses leaving from LA
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

December 17, 2009

Thank you Google for the SLOOOW Internet

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/12/17/thank-you-google-for-the-slooow-internet/ "As you know, time is money, and this time “free” cost too much."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Characters in the local part of a mail address

http://www.remote.org/jochen/mail/info/chars.html a useful referfence page
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Neoease WP Themes

http://www.neoease.com/themes/ some good looking wordpress themes
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage - Nick's Blog

http://blog.notdot.net/2009/12/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Log-structured-storage a good overview of log structured storage
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

Redis Benchmarks on FusionIO (Round 1)

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/12/10/redis-benchmarks-on-fusionio-round-1/ good to see some confirmation
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Serious Cookies: Chewy Gingersnaps

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/12/serious-cookies-chewy-gingersnaps-recipe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseats%2Frecipes+%28Serious+Eats%3A+Recipes%29&utm_content=Google+Reader yum!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

December 16, 2009

Geeks drive girls out of computer science

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34437233/ns/technology_and_science-science/ It's difficult for me to understand how "research" was needed to figure this out.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

How to destroy the Earth

http://qntm.org/?destroy something to try in your spare time
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Craigslist CEO on the 2 Meg Whitmans [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s2GvwtWzNA heh
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

December 15, 2009

Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices

http://cloudexchange.org/ it was just a matter of time
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Crockford, webhosting, online dating, JSON, alert

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/12/10/crockford-alert/ amusingly awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Boeing 787 Dreamliner First Flight

http://787firstflight.newairplane.com/ffindex.html this will be neat to watch
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

December 14, 2009

make scrolling suck less in emacs

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/12/scrolling.html ooh, I like it
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

Real time online activity monitor example with node.js and WebSocket

http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2009/12/7/real-time-online-activity-monitor-example-with-node-js-and-websocket node.js and websocket are an interesting combo... I excpect this is just the beginning
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

Future of RDBMS is RAM Clouds & SSD

http://www.igvita.com/2009/12/07/future-of-rdbms-is-ram-clouds-ssd/ indeed!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

December 13, 2009

GOOGLE: Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems

http://www.slideshare.net/xlight/google-designs-lessons-and-advice-from-building-large-distributed-systems here's a PPTish version of Jeff's talk that I probably linked earlier
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

The Whys and Hows of Preheating-revised

http://www.reiffpreheat.com/Article-Busch.htm good info on pre-heating aircaft engines
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

zsh: The last shell you’ll ever need!

http://friedcpu.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/zsh-the-last-shell-youll-ever-need/ interesting... I haven't paid attention to zsh for years
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

December 12, 2009

Perl.Hacks.On.Vim

http://www.slideshare.net/c9s/perlhacksonvim jesus, there's a ton of useful shit in here if I ever get serious about vim
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

December 11, 2009

Final glide with LAK19 [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxvYMC2QvI wow, that's one hell of a glide
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

The 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo

http://en.oreilly.com/mysql/ April 12-15th
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Free workingLCD tv

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ele/1498514993.html hahahahaaha
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Hadoop at Twitter (part 1): Splittable LZO Compression

http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/11/17/hadoop-at-twitter-part-1-splittable-lzo-compression/ LZO sounds pretty interesting
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

December 10, 2009

How to Ride a Pony

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/pony hahahahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

[SOLVED] missing cursor - Ubuntu Forums

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=628028 I might have seen this problem too... maybe.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Potty training a cracked out tyrannosaur is extremely hard.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/tyrannosaur_crack/potty_training.png yes it is!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Motion, Action, and Management

http://getluky.net/2009/12/08/motion-action-and-management/ what if your job title was less about your political rank and goals and more about the motion you engage in daily?
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

MySQL Performance: InnoDB Dirty Pages & Redo Log Size Impact

http://dimitrik.free.fr/db_STRESS_MySQL_InnoDB_dirty_pages_and_log_size_impact_May2009.html very interesting look at InnoDB flushing behavior and performance with vraious log file sizes
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

December 09, 2009

Ready, Set, Go!

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/ready-set-go/ a good Go language intro and overview
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

FusionIO – time for benchmarks

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/12/08/fusionio-time-for-benchmarks/ these numbers are close to what I'd expect to see
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

The Difference Between Motion And Action

http://steveblank.com/2009/11/09/relentless-%e2%80%93-the-difference-between-motion-and-action/ yes, I agree
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Video: Surprised Kitteh

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/12/08/funny-pictures-video-surprised-kitteh/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ICanHasCheezburger+%28I+CAN+HAS+CHEEZBURGER%3F%29&utm_content=Google+Reader this cracks me up every time I watch it
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Bluetile branch merged into xmonad!

http://xmonad.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/bluetile-branch-merged-into-xmonad/ this is very cool... a version of xmonad that normal people can ease into while still getting all the benefits of xmonad
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Bluetile

http://projects.haskell.org/bluetile/ "A modern tiling window manager with a gentle learning curve"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

How To Install Bluetile In Ubuntu

http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/how-to-install-bluetile-in-ubuntu.html doesn't look so hard. maybe I'll try it
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

December 08, 2009

The State and Future of JavaScript

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockford-yuiconf2009-state a very interesting and educational talk by Doug Crockford
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

The 25 Essential Public Speaking Skills

http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/25-skills-every-public-speaker-should-have/ good advice
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

xkcd - 154

http://xkcd.com/154/ sad but true
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

December 07, 2009

Mabou.ca

http://www.mabou.ca/ this page is all web 0.9 awesomeness
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Accessing a MySQL database from Node.JS

http://devthought.com/blog/2009/12/accessing-a-mysql-database-from-nodejs/ using DBSlayer
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

December 05, 2009

A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs

http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_for_matching_urls handy little regex
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

An Engineer's Guide to DNS

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/11/an_engineers_gu.html good background info from YDN
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Belite Aircraft

http://www.beliteaircraft.com/ cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

December 02, 2009

Intel Shows 48-core x86 Processor as Single-chip Cloud Computer

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=825 holy crap!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves

http://blog.notdot.net/2009/11/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Spatial-indexing-with-Quadtrees-and-Hilbert-Curves I want to come back and re-read this before too long... good stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html well, duh
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Windows-1252

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 a weird superset of Latin-1 that Microsoft has forced upon the universe
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Sphinx 0.9.9-release is out!

http://www.sphinxsearch.com/news/40.html with more stability! yay
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

December 01, 2009

Google Earth for general aviation

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/aviation/google-earth.html some good stuff from nelson
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Perl bug #60508: Assertion...

http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=60508 a crazy-assed bug that I ran into and managed to work around (I hope)
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Special Delivery

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Special-Delivery.aspx ha! that is totally awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM