January 2011
10 posts
Jan 30th
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Jan 22nd
Jan 22nd
Everything in One Place?
So I can now pull my 1FP feed into this blog, because I’ve added all of my blog feeds to feedburner. The question is, should I? I’ve already seen that two people who follow me here (via tumblr, not rss) are following me on 1fp as well. I would hate to saturate lots of people with repeats. Comments have been put back into place in this (look for the word comment over on the left by...
Jan 17th
Dead Drop
A few weeks ago I took part in something of a stunt. A number of participants would consider it a hack, or a feat of some sort of engineering, or something. They’re probably half right. I made, in the space of a few hours, Durham’s first dead drop. The notion, put quickly, is to recreate the old sneakenet method of dropping data using USB drives embedded in the cityscape. It’s...
Jan 11th
1F¶
A new proposal. I’m still intent on doing more writing here, but my “one big ass meaningful post” thing isn’t working. Clearly. So scratch that. I’ve got another blog up (which I’ll sync to here as well (thanks tumblr imports)) (which will not be imported here because you can’t do that with tumblr feeds). The premise is simple. One paragraph a day....
Jan 10th
Jan 10th
I’m contemplating building a set of scripts that would let me “thumbs up” and “thumbs” down whatever is playing on iTunes. The basic idea would be to set everything to 3 stars if it doesn’t already have a rating. The “up” hotkey would just boost the rating to the next star. The “down” hotkey would both drop the rating by a star and skip...
Jan 4th
Jan 4th