Linklog » Archives » November 2004

visitors looks pretty good - fast web stats analysis in c, with a single no-images html output. and a streaming text mode for cli junkies. excellent. combine with slurm to watch realtime bandwidth and hits. » « 02:00 01/11/04 | permalink | software

do you love egg? those crazy easterners. » « 05:21 01/11/04 | permalink | movies

the VPM looks very cool - a completely portable os and apps which you can stick on your usb drive and carry around with you. » « 05:31 01/11/04 | permalink | hardware software

a new release of lib_filter lets you choose whether or not to strip html comments, and ensures that their contents are escaped to avoid data being mangled. » « 22:03 01/11/04 | permalink | software

"caution: it is recommended to use this directive effectively". the squid documentation is lacking a certain something. oh yes, actual documentation. » « 23:15 02/11/04 | permalink | software

matt diephouse and joshua gatcomb have put together an automated benchmark suite for parrot, which is nice to track alongside trunk development. » « 06:19 03/11/04 | permalink | parrot

morville presents "a radically incomplete and idiosyncratic list of freely accessible research papers worth review before you plunge into your next information architecture project" » « 06:56 03/11/04 | permalink

tom points out the apple typography page on wikipedia. a fascinating read. » « 07:02 03/11/04 | permalink | typography

bush wins the election. i'm moving to canada. oh, wait. » « 17:07 03/11/04 | permalink | election

distopia is holding a wake for common sense. » « 18:42 03/11/04 | permalink | election

chown +bush -gne / » « 18:43 03/11/04 | permalink | election

we're hiring. » « 21:05 03/11/04 | permalink | work

mena has the right idea - canada 2.0 » « 22:00 03/11/04 | permalink | election

who actually uses these buttons in a way that does suck? mena did. oh, wait » « 05:40 04/11/04 | permalink

sam ruby pointed out microsoft's cli spec on the p6i list - makes interesting reading, especially the language interop sections. » « 17:42 04/11/04 | permalink

jeff r is still overcompensating wildly. » « 18:30 04/11/04 | permalink | comics

tom points out blue coconut on osx (10.3 only) which allows you to copy shared itunes tracks to your local machine. somebody needs to write this for windows very soon. » « 18:49 04/11/04 | permalink | software

someone has produced a wonderfully detailed purple map of america, broken down by county. » « 21:12 04/11/04 | permalink | election

someone's published the actual election results. hardly suprising ;) » « 07:34 05/11/04 | permalink | election

save our liberal american cousins - marry an american! (via tom) » « 07:36 05/11/04 | permalink | election

more election related crap: (wtf? i'm not even american) jeff r's new shirt is super-awesome. » « 20:29 05/11/04 | permalink | election comics

you know what time crisis was missing? yes, kittens. » « 21:39 05/11/04 | permalink | games

roadblocks is pretty fun, but trying to build a solver is more fun. patches to support one ways and teleporters are welcomed (you'd need to extend the find_stop_*) functions to return an x,y pair for the teleporters. one ways are easy - just add to the blocks list for each direction). :) » « 23:19 05/11/04 | permalink | code games

the perry bible fellowship is really good - well worth a trawl through the archives. » « 08:11 07/11/04 | permalink | comics

what we clearly need is more diagrams which don't really show anything, but look really pretty. [via george] » « 02:35 09/11/04 | permalink

ghost in the shell 2 is a great piece of work. slower and more dialog heavy than the original, but with a great meshing of cell animation, *really* stunning 3d work and hand painted (or perhaps photographed) backgrounds. really worth seeing. also makes me want to see the tv series that came out a couple of years ago. must be available on torrent somewhere, » « 08:08 09/11/04 | permalink | anime movies

my newest solver for roadblocks can handle one-ways and teleporters. seems to be able to cope with advanced levels easily. » « 22:51 09/11/04 | permalink | code games

e points out disturbing auctions which is frightening/great. » « 06:44 10/11/04 | permalink

i can't operate my microwave, but luckily i was saved by the web. now why haven't microsoft made a fast pdf reader for ie? i can only assume it's patent territory. » « 05:18 11/11/04 | permalink

e pointed me to this article in usa today. what the fuck is wrong with american catholics? if there really was a god, he'd hopefully smite those fucking idiots down. ahem. » « 05:21 11/11/04 | permalink

it seems some of the northern states aren't so keen on the US south. very nicely put. » « 22:59 11/11/04 | permalink

a beautiful piece of flashy 3d work about the us war project » « 23:06 11/11/04 | permalink

sam ruby wonders about the implementation of classes in parrot - specifically how to provide a system which can provide both perl and python class semanics, which are wildly different. » « 07:23 15/11/04 | permalink | parrot

some anonymous coward sent me some feedback about the fuck-the-south site. » « 07:56 15/11/04 | permalink | politics

'it'd be nice if stock Perl 6 ran blazingly with perfectly consistent and flexible semantics, but it's also important to have a knob you can turn up that says "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"'. larry talks about speed vs features for perl 6. » « 17:35 15/11/04 | permalink | perl

lealea points out a nice/serious site about moving to canada. » « 00:51 16/11/04 | permalink | canada

e noticed that somebody has lost their frog in a big way. » « 17:58 16/11/04 | permalink

this apache/lamp tuning article has been doing the rounds. nothing new really. » « 19:30 16/11/04 | permalink

jason just reminded me about progress quest, probably the best game in existance. » « 01:46 17/11/04 | permalink | games

i have halo 2. i have half life 2. who wants to touch me? » « 05:00 17/11/04 | permalink | games

aim comments looks pretty cool - first step on the ubiquitous interface path perhaps? » « 19:06 17/11/04 | permalink

half life 2 is amazing. i have a feeling i'm going to hear things in real life and think "that's almost as realistic as half life 2". fuck yeah » « 05:01 18/11/04 | permalink | games

striatic pointed me at this love xbox scale graphic - yes, it really is that big. » « 05:02 18/11/04 | permalink | games

i want an octodog! though i suspect using a knife would be just as easy. » « 18:08 18/11/04 | permalink

bookmarked for later: dan's explanation of continuations. » « 01:18 19/11/04 | permalink

a handy graph of relative port speeds. usb2 is faster than firewire's current implementation, but slower than the firewire original design. » « 01:33 19/11/04 | permalink

a good introduction to multicast. » « 18:23 19/11/04 | permalink | networking

secret santa lives once more! thanks to all the people who helped this year, even if they were late and i told them i hated them. » « 02:00 20/11/04 | permalink | web

it's conferance season again. our paper for etcon has been accepted (yay! etcon is alot of fun) and hopefully wont be the same mad development dash as last year. i've might also be talking at a vancouver php thingy, possibly along with rasmus, sterling and miss parks. i suspect people overestimate my php-fu ;) » « 02:15 23/11/04 | permalink

salt points out the tetris cosplay photos. awesome. i wish i'd thought of that. » « 19:17 23/11/04 | permalink | games

lea pointed me at this excellent article on mcsweeny's : the riddler makes an announcement. » « 00:31 24/11/04 | permalink

lea knows all - lowbright has some really awesome comics. » « 03:58 24/11/04 | permalink | comics

damien popped up on p6l to talk about parsing of perl6 and gave this excellent one liner: $parse_tree = ( $source_text ~~ m:keepall/ <Perl.prog> / ); which is very nice - a full adaptive parse tree including comments, whitespace, etc. » « 03:46 25/11/04 | permalink | perl

12many is a great game. i got 244 - what about you? » « 07:58 25/11/04 | permalink | games

tom linked to a good collection of ways to annoy absent cow-orkers. » « 08:04 25/11/04 | permalink

berkeley's evolution site is good stuff - pass it around to the 37% of americans who want evolutionism outlawed in schools. » « 18:35 25/11/04 | permalink

lea adds in to the evolution thread: the gallup poll that spawned the discussion. » « 20:09 25/11/04 | permalink

am i the only person finding the mozilla/firefox zealots tedious? do people not realise that moz is full of bugs too? » « 00:47 26/11/04 | permalink

pb posted a link to this frightening anti-islam pro-christianity comic. wow. » « 01:00 26/11/04 | permalink

zefrank has some words of advice for writing corporate email » « 02:06 26/11/04 | permalink

the nintendo ds looks pretty powerfull - now how can we use this power for evil instead of for playing with puppies? » « 02:12 26/11/04 | permalink | games

some guy (pun intended) has scanned in the pages from the 1971 and 1979 editions of the 'how it works' computer book from ladybird. i think i have the 1971 edition at home. note the glamourous women in the 1971 edition. » « 02:20 26/11/04 | permalink | books

more lowbright action: same difference is stunning. » « 08:20 26/11/04 | permalink | comics

gah. sealab 2021 is awesome, but the theme song by calamine is really really addictive. » « 18:22 29/11/04 | permalink | music

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