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- Fire in Sierra Madre
I took this picture Saturday afternoon and at the time, it seemed things were being contained. Now, they definitely aren’t as I saw flames in the hills this morning on my way back from the gym. The kids don’t have school since their school isn’t that far from the fires.
Here is some coverage [...]
- Why I Take the Train
I filled up the car last night on my way home. The good thing is only have to do this every two weeks but still, almost $50. The summer could be even worse and the train more crowded but I’m ok with that.
- Lowering Transaction Costs
I finished reading Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. It’s one of those books which causes your brain to constantly look for patterns in everything you do. If you haven’t picked it up yet, you really should. It’s really good.
One of the main points I took away from it was how the [...]
- Twitter, Twitter, Twitter
It seems that yesterday and today were filled with various bits of Twitter. First, I added the Top of the Ticket blog to our various Twitter accounts at latimestot. I’m thinking about releasing the code for how I do it if I get approval. It’s pretty basic but could be useful for [...]
- The Shirt for 2008
The Notre Dame bookstore is now selling the 2008 shirt. Looks really good on first impression.
- LiveNewsCameras.com
LiveNewsCameras.com is an aggregation of online video streams from television network affiliates. You can easily move from city to city, seeing what is going on throughout the country. There is also an online moderator who updates which streams are doing interesting things.
bub.blicio.us has additional information on it. This looks very interesting and [...]
- Kevin Burton on scaling MySQL
Kevin Burton has posted his slides from the MySQL conference. It’s based on his blog aggregator, Spinn3r which uses MySQL in write-heavy processes instead of the usual read path.
- Trains Missing A Huge Opportunity
It seems with all the problems the airline industry is having lately and the addition of screening devices which look underneath your clothes, you’d think Amtrak would have tons of discounts and ways of getting people on trains. But I haven’t heard anything form them in the media. That’s too bad because I [...]
- Shell History
Since everyone else is doing it:
a21772:~ jlucas$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
126 rake
121 svn
69 vi
57 ./script/console
21 ./script/server
17 cd
15 ssh
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