So my little project while I’m bored at home is PumaCreed — a poorman’s Google MapReduce. (astute hunter-types will notice the anagram name)

I’ve been toying with the idea for the past few days since I got inspired by the MapReduce chapter in Beautiful Code. Mostly it’s a cute little project that’s trendy and scratches an [...]

http://www.unsanity.org/archives/haxies/leopard.php

That’s what was wrong with my Leopard install. I was using (an uncompatible) hack to run Witch, a really nice power tool (which I hope, once they update, will remain Leopard-compatible)

My take on Leopard, now that it works:

New Finder really beats the pants off the old one. Not a hard task, but an important one. You [...]

tar -cvvf /Volumes/BARAKPOD/backup.tar michener/

So I got Leopard today, and, throwing caution to the wind, decided to upgrade my system.

bzzt Wrong! I am hosed!

So I’m lifting my userdata out onto my iPod — praise be unto the gods of the command line — and am going to do a fresh install.

I guess it all works [...]

More 164 rantage:

So today I woke up and rewrote my crappy parser from scratch, having had a showertime epiphany about not only how to write a good one, but write one with features we’ll need for the next part of the project.

In the end, I came out with exact same linecount. So I was +0 [...]

So I changed all my Flickr pictures to be under Creative Commons: Attirubution-ShareAlike, under the heading of being a good sport while retaining what I really want (which is largely attribution — the sharealike merely perpetuates the CC) — so yeah, if you care to use them, you can totally do so and it’s fully [...]

====Things I’ve Learned==== * Python has no conditional expressions (but does in 2.5) * svn rocks my socks * Eclipse doesn’t suck as much as I thought * [[http://www.nowpublic.com|NowPublic.com]] exists and they wanted to use my iPhone photos * I let them * I feel [...]

Let’s see….

Been trying to learn a little ruby and the ruby way. And been playing with Jyte. This is the result

The first write was slow. This rewrite is shorter and much faster. Sure, it basically scrapes the page, but hey, it’s kinda cool.

Cheap hacks FTW.

Check out the source here