Category Archives: Web

Scribefire!

Posted on July 30, 2007 by slacy

ScribeFire is a plugin for Firefox that allows in-browser blogging of links. It looks pretty cool, and did a great job of automatically detecting my WordPress XMLRPC interface. Check it out! Powered by ScribeFire. Ok, Update: ScribeFire adds a cheezy … Continue reading →

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Updated solar stats pages.

Posted on June 19, 2007 by slacy

I’ve updated my solar stats pages with 30-day and 90-day reports. Take a look!

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More on lolcats…

Posted on June 19, 2007 by slacy

So, if you need something to make you smile (and you’re a cat lover) then check out I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER. I’m not sure what it is, but these make me chuckle every time!

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A real double metaphone implementation in C++

Posted on May 20, 2007 by slacy

I’ve been doing some work on a baby name explorer web app, and I needed a good C++ implementation of the double metaphone algorithm. There are several C and C++ implementations mentioned on the web site, but most of them … Continue reading →

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U.S. second least likely to believe in evolution.

Posted on April 26, 2007 by slacy

U.S. residents are the second least likely people to believe in evolution. Only Turkey has a lower rate of belief in evolution.

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Yuri’s Night ’07!

Posted on April 12, 2007 by slacy

Too bad I’m gonna be “under the knife” today, otherwise I’d go to Yuri’s Night ’07 thats happening at NASA Ames research center this year!

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Scrobbling, 5 years late.

Posted on March 20, 2007 by slacy

Well, I’ve finally found an easy way to use last.fm with the way I listen to music — which is all from my personal server. It turns out that ampache has a builtin last.fm client support. So, anything that anyone … Continue reading →

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CBS5 video about the Mountain View Solar CO-OP.

Posted on March 13, 2007 by slacy

Learn more at http://mvsolar.blogspot.com

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Switched to GMail.

Posted on February 12, 2007 by slacy

Well, I’ve finally become a convert. After using GMail for a while at work, I’ve become addicted enough to want to use it on my personal accounts. I looked into Google Apps For Your Domain, created an account, but decided … Continue reading →

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A Million Penguins (a Wikinovel)

Posted on February 1, 2007 by slacy

So, I saw this post on technocrat about “A Million Penguins” which is a self-proclaimed “Wikinovel.” So, my first thought was that its a curiosity. The text seems a bit stilted, simple, disjointed. I’m not sure. I haven’t read the … Continue reading →