Saturday, February 28, 2009

rogue




roguescience.org - home of Justin Love. He was performing at the Interdisciplinary Day yesterday at UVIC, where I also gave a talk. Really amazing things happening at UVIC right now.



Wednesday, February 25, 2009

urb




Clojure + CouchDB = Urbantastic. That's a lot of functional programming for web. Interesting.



Monday, February 23, 2009

i will follow





tail --follow=name -f /var/log/messages






Friday, February 20, 2009

test



fu




command line fu. some pretty good intermediate level commands in there.

but seriously switch to zsh for the real fu.



!git





what git is not. git is rock and roll. and flowers. and sparkles. i <3 git.



R



undel



Thursday, February 19, 2009

Super! Power! Cheesy and Sleazy Lyric Writing Stall

This is so FREAKING AMAZING!!!!

raviolo





Ravioli Caprese

Ingredients
Dough:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1 cup very hot water
Filling:
3/4 cup whole milk ricotta
1 egg
1/2 cup finely shredded store-bought rotisserie chicken
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh basil leaves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Sauce:
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons chopped fresh basil leaves
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Directions

For the dough:

In a large bowl combine the flour and the water. Using a wooden spoon, stir to combine into a large ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit for 10 minutes.

For the filling:

Combine all the ingredients in a medium bowl and stir to combine.

To form the ravioli, cut the dough into 4 evenly sized pieces. The dough should be slightly sticky. Add extra flour as necessary for rolling, but use only a little as necessary. Form each piece into a 2 by 6-inch rectangle. Recover the dough with the plastic wrap.

Lightly dust the work surface and a rolling pin. Working with 1 piece of dough at a time, roll the dough into a 4 by 19-inch rectangle. Place 9 rounded teaspoons of filling about 1-inch apart down the center of the dough. Fold the dough over the filling. Press down around the edges of each of the ravioli with your fingertips. Cut the ravioli into small squares and press down around the edges again with your fingertips to seal. Place the finished ravioli on a baking tray and continue forming the remaining ravioli.

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add half the ravioli and cook until the ravioli float stirring occasionally, about 3 to 4 minutes. Drain into a large bowl and cook the remaining ravioli.

Pour the olive oil over the cooked ravioli. Add the basil, lemon zest, salt, and pepper. Gently toss to coat and serve immediately.



integrate




Continuous integration at Mozilla - Very neat ways to visualize problems with the source tree of mozilla.



while



unix




"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson



funny




Top 13 Funny Software Development Quotes

"In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." - Author Unknown



random




Why you should never use rand(). Interesting analysis for speed of random number generation for game developers.



hello multicore



Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Stanislav Grof

Stanislav Grof - Holotropic Breathing

Grof rocks. shaman comes out the other side of the tunnel. sness.

Have Guru Darshan 1977

5



ioloader error




I was having some major problems with some Actionscript 3.0 that I was writing. I was trying to write a try/catch block to handle the case when a URL was missing:


_metadata_loader = new URLLoader();
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(MarGridFlash._metadata_filename);
_metadata_loader.load(request);


But no combination of try/catch worked. It turns out that it was a case of "ur doin it wrong", and instead, as I learned from this excellent post that I should instead be doing:


loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, loaderMissing);

function loaderMissing(event:IOErrorEvent):void
{
trace("ERROR");
}




why?




An interview with why the lucky stiff. Why is just so random, I like.



git!




Git - is the C of Version Control Tools. I realllly like git, much better than svn. It sometimes gets a little hinky, but I'm sure it's because I don't understand it well enough yet.



font




Consolas - is a monospaced (non-proportional) typeface, designed by Lucas de Groot.

I use "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-14" myself.



test




Your Unit Tests Lie to You. Mostly interesting.



lp




Graphical solution of 2-var LP's. I'm thinking of taking a Linear Programming course this summer at UVIC.



zsync




zsync - is a file transfer program. It allows you to download a file from a remote server, where you have a copy of an older version of the file on your computer already. zsync downloads only the new parts of the file. It uses the same algorithm as rsync. However, where rsync is designed for synchronising data from one computer to another within an organisation, zsync is designed for file distribution, with one file on a server to be distributed to thousands of downloaders. zsync requires no special server software ? just a web server to host the files ? and imposes no extra load on the server, making it ideal for large scale file distribution.



xmonad




xmonad - A Linux X11 window manager written with Haskell. Go FP!



netcat




netcat - very cool unix network utility program.



Tuesday, February 17, 2009

happy




From 5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won't)

"This may be why studies show friendships, altruism and religious practices bring happiness. It may be that taking the focus off your own happiness is what makes happiness possible."

This is so true. One thing that I would like to add is that people who are really into self-improvement, and talk about self-care, are in fact deluding themselves. The only way to be happy is to take the focus off of your own happiness and focus that love of self to love of the universe.

I think that this might be due to the way that our brains have been constructed by evolution, but I have to do more thinking on this before I can present a really cogent argument.

And it's past my bedtime. :)



ixda



tricky




Here's a real quick and dirty way to test to see if the program I'm refactoring continues to do the right thing. If the diff command prints anything out, I need to take one step back and try the refactoring again.



./newnotes > la
./newnotes | diff - la





NuMOG (twinkle twinkle 2)

NuMOG (twinkle twinkle 1)

java mozilla




ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_11/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so



Friday, February 13, 2009

balloon




Trying to decide whether to use balloon tags, like Google Maps in a new application I'm building

balloonhelp in C
what is a help balloon
problems with balloons on Google Maps
Balloon Help at Wikipedia
Tooltip at Wikipedia

I might go with a status bar instead:

Status Bar at Wikipedia



Thursday, February 12, 2009

rock




rock. and. roll.



Wednesday, February 11, 2009

gf




sness was a little sad that his girlfriend dumped him on the weekend, but now realizes that he totally dodged a bullet and is way better off. whew!



page



Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Friday, February 06, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

0.5



aubio




My project for CSC 561 - Multimedia is going to be to port the algorithms in aubio to Marsyas. Sweet.



birthing



stevne




A Stevne is a convention, meeting or rally. I sometimes accidentally misspell my name this way. Interesting.



Monday, February 02, 2009

likeminded



lulin




More about Comet Lulin



git




Fine. Git is Awesome.

I really like git. I have everything in git repositories now, including subversion projects, which fit nicely inside of git. Git is simply awesome.



pv



python



not null



comet lulin






Comet Lulin approaches!



Sunday, February 01, 2009

rgb



im




Right now I'm listening to:

Infected Mushroom vs Shpongle - Live at the Underground 2002 -.mp3

It's off the hook.



aurora