Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01jan2008
Who needs matrices?, by Jack W. Crenshaw. Everyone does.
Santa Claus, Mark Dominus: “You don’t get presents because of the fat guy in the red suit, which is a shame, because wouldn’t it be fun if it were true? But you do get them anyway, and it’s because your family loves you. As consolation prizes go, that one’s pretty good.”
Halcyon is a JSON Web App Server Framework built on Rack for speed and light weight. Pretty neat, wanted to write something like that myself.
Out in the valley of wandering sleep
The images flood I can not keep
It’s picking me up blind energy
I’m floating on sensations wings
Fluttering kisses I go by
It catches me and soothes my worried mind
— Supreme Beings Of Leisure, Last Girl On Earth Lyrics
etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git repository. It hooks into apt to automatically commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades. It uses metastore to track file metadata that git does not normally support, but that is important for /etc, such as the permissions of /etc/shadow.
100 things we didn’t know last year, “34. Kryptonite exists.”
Low red moon,
How can you sleep like a baby,
Sleep like baby?
Sleep like baby?
— Belly, Low Red Moon
BLDGBLOG: The Year in Review: May 2007, the other months are linked there.
Find objects in IRB directly from browser URLs, a hack from Dr Nic.
New Years Beethoven-a-thon, Joi Ito reports: “Last night, Mizuka, Sachiko-mama and I went to see the special New Years performance produced by our friend Shigeaki Saegusa. This was the 5th year of the event where the theme of each year is to perform Beethoven’s 1st through 9th Symphonies in one day as we pass into the New Year.”
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