Massively Parallel Procrastination

Prophet is a lightweight schemaless database designed for peer to peer replication and disconnected operation.

Come have dimsum :)

I just got back from OSCON.

I haven't been blogging about the Kindle for a while...mostly because I haven't hacked on the Kindle in a while.

So, Sunday's my birthday.

Now with better default fonts (Google's free Droid fonts) and border cropping. http://savory.googlecode.com/files/savory-image-2009-04-10.zip

Over the past day, a few readers have asked me what converted PDFs look like on the Kindle 2 and how readable they are.

From the bits of feedback I've gotten on Savory's initial release on Friday, it seems pretty clear that people want to be able to view rendered PDFs that look "like they're supposed to" Savory's initial release used a PDF-to-HTML converter that extracts t…

Good conversions of image-heavy or image-based PDFs.

UPDATED 5 April 2009 - 11:16 EDT: Pointers changed to Savory installer and uninstaller 0.06 which provide minor run-time reliability and book-detection fixes.

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.2 1484 300 ?

There appear to be on-board PPP configurations for both Sprint and AT&T (though of course the Kindle's EVDO modem will only talk to Sprint).

As a heads up, I'm going to be in the UK for the next week for work, so you shouldn't expect to hear much out of me on the Kindle front.

from rcS.d/S05video_primary_init: _PANEL_SIZE_6_0_INCH=6 _PANEL_SIZE_9_7_INCH=9

So yes, I have a root shell on the Kindle 2.

I've moved my technical blogging over to http://blog.fsck.com.

First, the bad news: the busybox Amazon ships the Kindle with doesn't have telnetd compiled in.

It looks like I'm pretty close to being able to start a telnetd on the Kindle2 and build an update package so that others could do the same.

When I said the K2 wasn't listening on any TCP ports, I was somewhat mistaken.

UPDATE: There's now a bunch more at http://blog.fsck.com, including bits about how you might get yourself a telnetd, root shell and other fun bits.

As I've been playing around with the Kindle 2, I've discovered a few interesting things that I haven't yet found documented elsewhere.

A couple months ago, I bought a Sony 700-series reader.

Are you a Kindle owner?

One of the more common complaints about deploying software written in Perl is the occasionally tangled nest of dependencies one must install from CPAN.

I ran into Nat on my way to OSCON this summer and he asked me what was new and exciting in my world, which gave me the perfect opening for my rant about why cloud-hosted services are essentially modern sharecropping.

Right then.

I will be more productive.

As currently planned: 140657 miles.

I swore to myself that I wouldn't get a T-Mobile G1.

I'm in SF for work on Friday.

If you are in London, we should have breakfast on Monday.

So. 4 counts Palin. 4 counts Ike. 4 counts Lehman. 2 counts Bush. 1 count telephone dog. 1 count dancing stormtrooper.

So, I need to be in Madrid on 24 and 25 November.

This Saturday (June 21) is my birthday.

I gave a 5 minute talk at Ignite Boston this evening.

I'm looking to get a quick read of what folks are using for bug tracking.

See photo: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/freedom_s_choice.

Today is Earth Day.

I'm going to be in London for breakfast on Friday.

CL and I went to Hawaii for spring break.

I can use livejournal as if it were Twitter!

Oh no!

(This goes to craigslist tomorrow, but I'd rather end up with a referral from a friend than with a total stranger) ABOUT US We're a small software company located in Somerville, Mass.

We have a new build and distribution tool called 'Shipwright.'

Hiveminder Pro launches today Today, we're releasing Hiveminder Pro, a major update to our online task management system.

The last time I saw the blogosphere slinging crap about an apple keynote-announced product like this...well, it wasn't pretty.

I think this makes a wonderful privacy-cautionary-tale example.