Category: general (Page 8 of 30)

and it is my own fault. i have tripped on my dissatisfaction, chronic and malignant.

I hang out as karpet on freenode.net in the #swish-e channel, where there is occasionally meaningful conversation related to the project. I have registered the channel under my nick, but I often logout and back in and forget how to regain operator status. Here’s the cheatsheet for my own memory:

/msg nickserv identify karpet mypassword
/msg chanserv op #swish-e karpet

Not too complicated but I always have to hunt around to find the right bots to /msg to.

Lest any of my less-geeky friends assume that I know everything hip on the internet, the Netflix Prize was unknown to me until about 20 minutes ago. Then I read a mention of it on kottke.org and read the IEEE Spectrum article written by the current leading team. Now I wish I had heard about it 3 years ago when it started, because it could have been a very cool learning experience.

The Guardian UK site now has an API for searching their content. Neat idea.