The Christian Science Monitor has a nice article on religion and The Matrix. The article is more for people unfamiliar with the movie and its upcoming sequels, and unfamiliar … Continue reading »
Poking around ORA’s “hacks” site, I came across this quick note on searching and replacing with command-line perl: perl -pi.bak -e ‘s/bgcolor=#ffffff/bgcolor=#000000/i’ *.html The example, of course, is at the back of … Continue reading »
We saw Cirque Du Soleil’s Varekai on Saturday. Beyond some snippets on Bravo, we hadn’t seen Cirque Du Soleil before. It’s actually pretty amazing seeing it live: our … Continue reading »
Here’s an interesting article by Michael Totten on liberals and conservatives, and their attitudes about the world. The most provocative observation is that liberal intellectuals are in a way less interested … Continue reading »
Regarding my old school SQL, I found this site that covers new school SQL (or, in my case, SQL that isn’t at least ten years out of date): SQL Zoo I think … Continue reading »
My weekend programming project to improve the search capabilities of the weblog software I’m using is basically done, after a spate of typical computer-based monomania. The search function works … Continue reading »
This is from the New York Times. Someone has written a paper on co-op/condo prices in Manhattan where the price components are broken down using regression analysis. So, you get … Continue reading »
Scott sent his digital SLR set over. There were about 300 images total, most of them much better than the Sony point-and-shoot. He burned through all his CF … Continue reading »
I’m missing two documents from the co-op application right now: A copy of my loan application to Chase. This was sent to Chase by email. I had forgotten I … Continue reading »
I stumbled across the Queens Tribune’s 2002 “Best Of”. The categories are interesting: it’s very Old World, in the sense of being relatively heavy on the Italian, diners and … Continue reading »