Parand

Wikihow's How To Stop Accumulating Books has been making the rounds in blogs and delicious popular.

Inaugration day, and I missed just about all the festivities.

Queues are nice things.

Parand says: When attempting to do a two man job with only one man, substitute endurance for raw power.

We're starting a San Diego Hadoop User Group.

Interesting video of how Obama's campaign logo was designed.

Slides from my Data Processing in the Cloud talk: Cloud Computing: Hadoop View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

Have you noticed how more and more the headlines of the top blogs are all the same announcement at the same time?

In most cases I prefer dot notation over bracket notation for dictionary access.

There have been several requests for this, so I might as well post it here for general use.

I'm trying to setup ad-hoc small mailing lists using GMail.

I'm using Yahoo Live to get a look at the Yahoo UCSD Hack Day event, and I'm quite surprised at how well it works.

I'm trying to find the appropriate design for RESTful design of URLs for search and for collections of items.

As the "computer guy" for my wife, various friends, and my own activities, I often see a need for a very simple "CRM" system.

My image, mp3, and ebook collection were a mess after years of copying to various servers, consolidating, and re-copying.

I am an incredibly cheap bastard frugal.

Say you want to access the values if your dictionary via the dot notation instead of the dictionary syntax.

I'm participating in the UCSD Yahoo Hack U week this coming week (Oct 13th-17th) with a talk on Wed and hopefully sticking around through most of the actual hack day (Thurs/Fri).

beanstalkd is a promising in-memory queuing system in the mold of memcached (minimal configuration, just works) with client libraries in a variety of languages.

(First install beanstalkd and pybeanstalk) Beanstalkd is an in-memory queuing system.

For about a week now the network at home has been slow.

My laptop suddenly stopped working, throwing me into panic - what if it's a problem with the motherboard, the same problem that killed my last laptop?

Stackoverflow is a newish service for developers - ask a question, get answers, vote on answers, build reputation.

This is an excellent development - The Big Picture from boston.com, a beautiful photo blog and one of the big reasons for putting ReaderScroll together, has implemented j/k navigation, inspired by ReaderScroll.

Is it me or does Palin struggle to say "nookiller" instead of nuclear?

Watching the Palin/Biden debate and the subsequent babbling by the TV talking heads has me depressed.

The Freebase folks have open sourced their Python (Jython) based Hadoop framework, calling it Happy.

Here's a lazyweb question for you: what's the best way to convert my flickr photo stream into facebook albums on an automated, continual basis?

How's this for a productivity tip: leave your power cord at home.

Live doesn't get a lot of love and with those new ads Microsoft needs some serious help getting the word out, so let me say something nice about them.

Disco is a map-reduce framework written in Erlang and Python.

I'm surprised to find I use Chrome pretty regularly already.

Drizzle is interesting: Drizzle: A High-Performance Microkernel DBMS for Scale-Out Applications Drizzle is a community-driven project based on the popular MySQL DBMS that is focused on MySQL's original goals of ease-of-use, reliability and performance.

I wasn't aware of generator expressions: wwwlog = open("access-log") bytecolumn = (line.rsplit(None, 1)[1] for line in wwwlog) bytes = (int(x) for x in bytecolumn if x !

The Chrome download was surprisingly fast (as in, less than 5 seconds).

Javascript inheritance is another one of those topics that always escapes my mind, so I'm recording it here for future reference.

Interesting that Google's Chrome is based on WebKit instead of the Mozilla rendering engine…

What I know about the innards automobiles I learned from a book on Wankel engines when I was 8.

Three.

I frequently run into pages with loads of images (here's one via Kedrosky, here's another, and here's yet another).

Several friends have been at work on several startups and are looking for technology leaders to round out their teams.

Mozilla announces TraceMonkey, a just-in-time compiler for Javascript.

MI5 report on terrorist profiling, via Schneier.

Parand.

Watching the women's uneven bars.

Mike Verdon's Python Twitter Tools is less popular and findable than the Dewitt Clinton's python-twitter (I only found the former from an email on the latter's mailing list), but it's a beautiful library. 125 lines, most of which are comments.

All the cool kids are into Git these days and I've been reading plenty of articles about how good it is and how to use it.

Wife is in Florida with the youngest kid, and the other two spent most of the weekend at my parents', giving me a chance to engage in plenty of bad habits.

This is just incredible.

I couple of years ago I wrote about Taste Vectors, did a bit of hacking, and not much else.