Montserrat
Originally uploaded by Carles9. This weeks Flickr interesting photo. The perspective of this make me think of some crazy Escher painting. Very cool looking though.
Filed under Media Posted on July 31st 2009
Archive for July, 2009
Giant Vortex Cannon
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. This is the ultimate geek toy. I want to know how to make one now. Etsy/DIY where are you when I need you?
Filed under Media Posted on July 30th 2009
Improving Django Cache – Part I
Django is a Python framework for rapidly developing web applications. It’s loosely based on the “Model-View-Controller” programming paradigm. One of the great things about Django is it has several cache implementations built in. One of those implementations is for the very popular memcached. The base Django implementation for memcached is great, but there are few [...]
Filed under Work Posted on July 28th 2009
Filed under Media Posted on July 22nd 2009
Tab Listener
Sometimes when developing Firefox extensions, you need to store information on a per tab basis. I’ve developed some reusable code for doing this. As an added bonus the information is stored using the session store api so it will be restored when a tab is restored. It also listens to the private browsing notifications and [...]
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July 21st 2009
Illium
Dan Simmons is the author of my favorite book series “The Hyperion Cantos”. I’m just finishing up my second read of another of Dan Simmons’ books “illium”. The story takes place after the post humans have evolved separately from the old style humans. Autonomous robots, morovecs, have been living around Jupiter and the post’s have [...]
Filed under Editorial Posted on July 20th 2009
JavaScript Expiring Cache
I’ve been working with JavaScript for a long time on web pages and Firefox extensions. From time to time I run into instance where I want to keep an object around for a while in case I need it later. At the same time I don’t want to bloat memory usage by holding reference that [...]
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July 15th 2009
Expialidocious
From Fagottron, He’s done it again. Alice in Wonderland, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and now Mary Poppins; I’m not sure which is my favorite.
Filed under Media Posted on July 14th 2009
Grandma
For Grandpa’s funeral several people shared stories about the things they remember about him. Afterwards I wondered if there was anything I could have shared. I know that I’m the wrong person for this kind of things since specific events don’t tend to stick out in my mind. More like general perceptions and images. So [...]
Filed under Family Posted on July 13th 2009
Scrumdiddlyumptious
Another great mix from Fagottron This time he’s mixed the song “Scrumdiddlyumptious” from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. I’ve previously posted his remix from Alice in Wonderland. Thanks Lon Harris for pointing it out via Twitter.
Filed under Media Posted on July 7th 2009