Found out about Duck Duck Go via Benad’s Blog. I’m hoping to experiment with LSI at $work in the coming weeks.
an eddy in the bitstream
Maker of lunches.
Teller of stories.
Singer of songs.
Crafter of code.
Kicker of darkness.
Found out about Duck Duck Go via Benad’s Blog. I’m hoping to experiment with LSI at $work in the coming weeks.
E. O. Wilson’s fiction piece in the New Yorker reads like a National Geographic article, not the kind of fiction I expect from the New Yorker. But then, that makes it the kind of thing I expect to read in the New Yorker, which is a wide-ranging publication. I liked the piece.
I was at the Apple Store just now getting a bad RAM chip replaced in my MacBook. All in all it was a very pleasant experience, and aside from the inconvenience of having to drive 40 minutes round-trip for a 20 minute errand, pretty painless.
I took the bad RAM chip, which I had identified and yanked from my machine a couple of weeks ago, in an anti-static bag I had in my desk drawer. My desk is full of them, along with spare parts and adapters and such, many for machines that haven’t been manufactered or supported for over a decade. I’m a packrat for old computer junk, though to my credit I have tossed/recycled lots and lots of old “beige” computer parts in the last few years, especially now that the city/county has good recycling for that kind of thing.
Anyway, when I handed the bag with the bad chip in it to the young man at the Apple Store, I didn’t think anything of it, but on returning the bag to me he joked that it was a vintage piece. I chuckled and replied, Well, I’m feeling kind of vintage these days.
The bag had the original label attached: 32MB Apple Quadra and Centris Series.
The chip I had replaced was a standard-issue 2GB size, roughly 1000x more memory than the bag had originally held.
You know you’re getting old in this business when you can distinctly remember the thrill of a 32MB chip of RAM and how much pure computing power it held.
It’s been a long week, culminating today in Frozen Perl 2010, a Perl conference for and by Perl hackers, here in the Twin Cities. I gave two talks at today’s conference, one on Swish3 and the other on Devel::NYTProf and Search::Tools. Both talks seemed well-received.
In the process of preparing the talks I also released a few new, related modules to CPAN this week:
I think OpenSearch is very cool and look forward to doing more with that spec, including adding more features (e.g. facets) to Search::OpenSearch.
foo=( 1..4 )
and that’ll be expanded to
foo=( 1 OR 2 OR 3 OR 4 )
when the Dialect query object is stringified. Handy for things like ranges of dates, which is how I am using it as $work.
So, yes. A busy week.
I enjoyed hearing other folks’ talks today at Frozen Perl. There was a good variety: pack/unpack, Unicode, i18n and best practice-related presentations. I met some new people, renewed friendships with folks I already knew, and drank lots of free coffee. The cookies were good too.
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