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I’d post this picture every time I was reminded of it, but I would end up posting it several times a day, and that might get as old for you as it is for me. I hate that I have to go by “Bill” or “Jeff” to be taken seriously in coder communities. Troglodytes.

I’d post this picture every time I was reminded of it, but I would end up posting it several times a day, and that might get as old for you as it is for me. I hate that I have to go by “Bill” or “Jeff” to be taken seriously in coder communities. Troglodytes.

My shell always has the best advice

My shell always has the best advice

xkcd nails it once again (sent by Evelyn)

xkcd nails it once again (sent by Evelyn)

My next project is a script that automatically searches Snopes for the content of any email which …

  1. was sent to me by a blood relative or
  2. has been forwarded more than twice

Perhaps a conditional autoresponder is in order as well.

Tumblr Tag Clouds: Redux »

This is a tag cloud generator for Tumblr. It uses the Tumblr API’s JSON output and jQuery to generate a tag cloud each time your site is accessed.

Demo of top 30 tags by frequency:

Don't live like me

Me: Damnit, I can't figure out a good way to do this in Python.
Ned: Well, you could … no.
Me: What were you going to say?
Ned: It's nothing. I was just going to say, in C++ you could … no. No, don't live like me.
Database migration: ouch! Blame my lack of updates on the same.

Database migration: ouch! Blame my lack of updates on the same.

“The building of a kludge…is not work for amateurs. There is a certain, indefinable, masochistic finesse that must go into true kludge building.”

—Jackson Granholm
Tumblr Tag Cloud Generator, in case you use tags. (Tumblr API = love.)

Tumblr Tag Cloud Generator, in case you use tags. (Tumblr API = love.)