Tim Bray on the future of browsing.
Category: Legacy
In case this comes in handy for anyone: touchoff is a little perlscript I hacked together last night b/c I couldn’t find anything that would already allow time offseting by default. Perl has sort of lackluster date-handling functions for doing offsets by default (say, compared to PHP); Dave Rolsky has been working on DateTime modules, but honestly, that would’ve been overkill for this thing.
Usage: touchoff +/-TIME FILE...
Change the modification times of each FILE by the specified offset.
+/-TIME TIME is a decimal number appended by: d, h, m, or s
for respective units. Defaults to hours.
todo: try a python version; also, just for fun, a php version
Tonight’s goal: get calorie counter back up and running.
- USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 15 downloadable from the Nutrient Data Library site.
The ASCII is sorta a pita to parse; I wasn’t really up for manually recreating the data model. The easiest way to load the data ended up being using the sample Access DB, running exportSQL on it, and then dumpinging it into mysql from there. Worked w/o any complications (just be sure to reference the DAO libs first when calling the exportSQL module).
Neural.it, now in English
Ahh, seeing this Burning Man 2003 Travelocity package hoax reminds me of something Bruce Sterling said in an old /. interview
- Usability tip: Pad Little Links
- Styling forms
- Class:XPath = adds xpath matching to object trees
- via MozillaZine: OneStat.com have released their latest browser usage data. It’s as expected, IE6 has made big gains at the expense of IE5, Netscape 4 has made losses and Mozilla and Safari have made gains.” thelem adds that IE now has a global usage share of 95.4% (up 0.1 percentage points since February), Mozilla 1.6% (up 0.4 percentage points), Netscape Navigator 4.x 0.6% (down 0.4 percentage points), Opera 6.0 0.6% (down 0.1 percentage points) and Safari 0.25% (up 0.14 percentage points). “These figures show similar trends to those being reported by thecounter.com, although thecounter.com puts mozilla usage at around 2.2%
- Kinetic Typography
From eggpost’s archives, via matt’s a.whole:
Dear teenaged males of America, with your baggy pants and ironic nerd hair: You have turned all the teenaged females of America into lesbians, good work. Do you think there were this many teenaged lesbians 10 years ago? Sorry, there weren’t. I am not judging you, just letting you know.
I think I escape culpability here because my nerd hair is the real deal.
Ask /.: How Do You Get Work Done?
I’m hoping to figure this out in time for the fall. 30+hrs work, 9 grad units (including 2 production classes [5 shorts])
I’m back from Vancouver. I had pretty spotty ‘net access during the trip. Also, I was quite lazy, hence the lack of updates. Timing for the trip was rather haphazard. Going up a couple days earlier and I could have caught WebVisions in Portland. Err, also, missed California Extreme on the way down. But on the bright side, the trip was fun and relaxing. Vancouver is disappointingly quite un-unwired, but otherwise a beautiful place.
Also, Red Bull apparently cannot be sold in Canada (heroin and prostitution are, however, decriminalized).