Tab Sweep — Tech
2009-12-18 20:00:04
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Apparently there is still a gap between the short form and blogging even at a moderate scale. In the Twitter era, my browser tab count grows frighteningly large, simply because I get out of the Sweeping habit. ...
’tis the Season
2009-12-17 08:04:36
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Being a photo of part of our Christmas tree.
Our 3½-year-old is now old enough to get the concept, so she helped decorate, but the motor skills required to thread a glass ball or icicle on a shaky fir branc...
Concur.next — Hard-Core Clojure
2009-12-16 07:37:50
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Here’s real news: Alex Osborne of National Library of Australia, also known as @atosborne, whom I first met on #clojure, took the Wide Finder bit between his teeth and has posted a remarkable implementation st...
The End of the Golden Age?
2009-12-15 02:00:45
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For a few years now, the Internet has been just insanely useful. Everything is there and you can find it when you need it. But Google is working less and less well, and I’ve spotted another potential crack in ...
BSG
2009-12-14 08:05:42
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Lauren and I watched Battlestar Galactica end-to-end over the course of the last couple of months. I thought the form was more interesting than the content.
## The Form
It seems like a new thing in the world ...
Colonoscopy
2009-12-11 23:44:35
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I get one every three years now and just got back from the latest, which means that you get a reminder too. Because first of all, colon cancer kills many, and colonoscopy really fucking works. And it’s not tha...
Concur.next & WF2 — Tuning Concurrent Clojure
2009-12-11 00:17:13
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I’ve been working on, and writing about, running Clojure Wide Finder code. But I was never satisfied with the absolute performance numbers. This is a write-up in some detail as to how I made the code faster an...
Wide Finder 2
2009-12-10 01:06:17
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Last fall, I ran the Wide Finder Project. The results were interesting, but incomplete; it was a real shoestring operation. I think this line of work is interesting, so I’m restarting it. I’ve got a new compu...
On Baked Potatoes
2009-12-08 19:18:44
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I recently remarked “There are very few foods indeed that compare with a high-quality Russet potato, properly baked.” A voice in the comments wondered “And what do you call ‘properly baked’?” A harmless e...
Sunday Diary
2009-12-07 07:59:55
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A domestic wintry day (high of 3°C with gusts of very unpleasant wind) recalled and illustrated.
1. Made pancakes, a double recipe and we ate ’em all. I use a mix from Anita’s Organic, it’s tasty and eas...