Every day for the past 8 years (give or take), cron has run a little script to change my Desktop background image to the astronomy picture of the day.
I logged in today, and this is what I got:
I realize it’s Gliese 876d, but I took it as a statement about the current state of my [...]
So I have succumbed to infection (thanks Ross), but I’m not entirely sure how this is supposed to work…and Kesa said “Don’t Do It!”. After reading Morbus rail about it I’m almost afraid that I won’t be able to lurk on #swhack anymore if I do spread this any further. But it’s already gutted the [...]
I just noticed that del.icio.us now has full, fast search across all content (not just your own bookmarks). This is something that Dan’s unalog has had on delicious for a while (apart from the delightful content). Dan uses pylucene as his search engine, which still has some interesting features. It’s pretty wild being able to [...]
Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index.
Although Google executives are keeping many details about Google Purge under wraps, some analysts speculate that the categories of information Google will eventually index or destroy include handwritten correspondence, buried fossils, and private thoughts and feelings.
Seriously, many a truth is said in jest. With the [...]
Thanks to the support of Anne Highsmith at Texas A&M MARC::Record v2.0 RC1 was released today to sourceforge. This new version of MARC::Record addresses the use of Unicode in MARC records. There has been a long standing bug in MARC::Record which caused it to calculate record directories incorrectly when the records contained Unicode. This isn’t [...]
I’ve been doing some work for Texas A&M who need a MARC::Record module that is Unicode safe. Many ILS vendors are moving away from MARC-8 encoded records towards Unicode. No doubt this move is being spurred on by big players like OCLC who are moving (or have moved) their mammoth WorldCat database to Unicode.
At any [...]
Hello WordPress, bye bye custom blog code written in Perl. Well the old code is still running, but I’ve wanted to install WordPress for the past few months and finally got around to it this weekend. I had a little bit of trouble getting PHP installed, only because I decided to use the older [...]
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