@heckj- heckj: RT @bethrobson: Very proud to be a WA state resident! WA state senate just passed same-sex marriage bill. #LGBT
- heckj: @danimal word
- heckj: @alexvollmer :-(
- heckj: @BrianTRice where are u tonight with the #dartlang stuff?
- heckj: good night tonight - catching up with a bunch of @xcoders friends I haven't seen since before the new year
- pinboard links
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/161881325429727232/photo/1) January 24, 2012
- Largest Solar Radiation Storm in Six Years Headed Toward Earth- Bloomberg January 24, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/159742603926056960/photo/1) January 18, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/johnderosa/status/159659196428726272/photo/1) January 18, 2012
- A brief history of personal computing platforms. on Twitpic January 14, 2012
- PyPy Status Blog: Transactional Memory (II) January 14, 2012
- Creation of iPxe Bootable USB | AT@ Blogger January 11, 2012
- The Book Designer — Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books January 6, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/152807856356331520/photo/1) December 30, 2011
- Vim Text Objects: The Definitive Guide | The Carbon Emitter December 24, 2011
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Geek Gift prediction flowchart
Courtesy of a link from Digg – a lovely cartoon from the geeks at UserFriendly: Geek Gift prediction flowchart
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Traffic Shaping/Simulating slower network connections
While scanning my RSS feeds this afternoon, I caught the headline Traffic Shaping in Mac OS X. Very cool. I knew Dummynet support couldn’t be super far away from the Mac, but frankly I’d never looked. When I wanted to … Continue reading
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Not much of anything…
It’s the end of saturday, and I can happily report that I haven’t done much of anything today. I shipped out a pile of Christmas packages, had some lovely green tea, and ate an awesome dinner with friends. And that … Continue reading
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more on OLPC
Ran across a link to Jim Getty’s blog where he’s talking about the hardware specifics associated with the OLPC project. Pretty cool – and definitely a blog to watch.
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no fog…
Tonight was a night to get out of the house. When I came home, Karen had clearly come down with a cold and wasn’t feeling well, which I thought would kill those plans for the night. But she sacked out … Continue reading
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how do you tell if someone learned…
“How do you tell if someone learned a topic” was the dinner-time question tonight. Karen finished her classes for the quarter (I keep wanting to call them semesters), and one of her finals left her really depressed and kinda wigged … Continue reading
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a dark and foggy night…
I wandered about the house sort of aimlessly this evening – Karen’s out at a holiday party. It wasn’t until recently that I actually looked outside though – and saw that it was a “dark and foggy night”. It immediately … Continue reading
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Django screencast
More geekstuff… If you’re into screencasts (typically of a demo of how to use some technology) – then you should hear about the Django Screencast. It’s nothin’ official like from the Django maker folks, but it is pretty slick. 7Mb, … Continue reading
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This just makes it too easy…
A little evening geektalk from the testing world. I was determined to play with Selenium a bit tonight, and while I was wandering around in FAQ land, I stumbled upon SeleniumRecorder – a firefox extension that records sessions and generates … Continue reading
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Monday
Its monday – just barely. Hi Monday! Time for bed.
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