Archive for the ‘ technology ’ Category
So, the special edition DVD set of Watchmen contains a "digital copy." Thats not really the case. What it contains is a code for iTunes to download a copy (oh yea, offer expires July 21, 2010. Its a year off, but still) or an executable to give you [ READ MORE ]
Anyone have any thoughts on Android based phones? I love my iPhone but I'm really getting tired of AT&T. My contract is up in September and I have no desire to pay an increased monthly rate for their mediocre service AND have apps pulled from the[ READ MORE ]
So, I've got a number of whisky blogs I subscribe to and what not. I decided to create a public feed for that sort of information. You can subscribe to this if you're interested: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jlwhisky [ READ MORE ]
So I spent a bit of today refactoring the Scotch scraping script and it now exists in a script + library form. The interesting bit about this particular change is that now I can make it scrape other sites as well. I've already added another state, bu[ READ MORE ]
So, I've got a sort of side project. For those who don't know, in the state of Washington, the distribution and sale of hard liquor is pretty much a state monopoly. Its expensive, there's not a great selection, and the stores frequently have reasonab[ READ MORE ]
And I just got an email that Amazon Fresh is now delivering to my neighborhood! This is very exciting - now to see if I can get unattended deliveries. More news as the story develops. [ READ MORE ]
So I'm confused about Amazon Fresh. I'd love to use their service for groceries, but its currently unavailable. I went to check again today, and I noticed a small discrepency. On the Amazon Fresh Help page, they have this content:13. Where do you deli[ READ MORE ]
Holy crud a motherload of .emacs configuration possibilities:http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/common/emacs/_emacs.html [ READ MORE ]
So website news. I've migrated http://www.thegentootux.com and http://www.wwtsl.com to a VPS server so they're no longer served out of my apartment. Thats a really good bit of news.They last moved from my OSX server to a Linux server back in December. [ READ MORE ]
Site moved to a different server today. That was "fun".Also upgraded a bunch of the backend software. Also "fun". [ READ MORE ]