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 [...]