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Two weeks from now I am arriving in Delhi. A month from now, Tokyo. The next 4 weeks are going to fly by in an instant, and then... and then... ? Update Roughly: Montreal -> Narita -> Delhi (4 days)...

I needed to update my string to hexcolor function to also check the luminosity before returning a color cause I was often getting colors too bright to be legible when applied to text on a white background. It now takes...

Just came across this: What are the odds that two commenters leave the exact same comment (barring the capitalization of one word) at the same moment on the same photoblog post? "Selena" and "Mojo â„¢" both said "LOL home!!!" at...

(get past the melodrama and the fact that it's an anime / "oh it's cheesy scifi" ;) Just as there are many parts needed to make a human a human there's a remarkable number of things needed to make an...

The MacBook was repaired earlier this week and I am now on it full time. Sadly, it is hotter than the G4 Powerbook it replaces, and noisier (the HDD). It is also markedly faster, so the tradeoff is... acceptable. India...

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Waiting for my laundry this evening, I went for a walk down St-Denis to find some food. Walking buy a "smart games" boutique, I decided to duck in and see if I could find... Quarto is the game Chicken...

business idea the product: freshly pressed fruit juices and smoothies, in two size formats each, coming in a handful of standard combinations (based on price of raw materials and, you know, what tastes good and sells). at order time, buyer...

the above is a cheat sheet for the vi terminal-based text editor. it is evil in it's powerful complexity. amongst geek ideology wars, vi is often pitted again emacs. the emacs camp backronyms vi to mean "vicious interface" my...

Hello, what's this? "We automatically detect new buzz by crawling 50,000 of the very best web sites, blogs, and news sources. Then our technology crunches the raw data from these sites to identify new buzz that’s just starting to spread....

I'm over at my mobile carrier, Fido, 's website. Was gonna see if I can login somewhere and manage my services. Time to get rid of voicemail as, well, I just don't ever check it. Been over a year. I...

Yesterday's achievement for IMD was a bit more straight forward: put a Flickr badge of the department's group photo pool on the homepage. Can you tell I did it? ;) To be honest the hardest part was the calculations for...

The Top 10 Lies of Web 2.0 Méfiez-vous du Web 2.0 [fr] *cough* toldyouso *cough* ;) Totally unrelated; having sex on a domestic flight in America will get you 20 years in prison....

From a list of undergraduate projects available at the Center for Intelligent machines at McGill, "Content-Based Image Retrieval": 2. Finding Animals in Internet Imagery Using Learning Methods This project, based on a recently published paper, involves finding images on the...

I woke up this morning with, in my head, the first words from an email I had gotten from Scott last night, pleading: "*Desperately* need some kind of shared calendar capability on the [IMD] events page." "How could I do...

Mike couldn't remember the source, but I needed to take this down one way or another: tell em what you're going to tell emtell emthen tell em what you told em However, now that I think of it, I do...

Seems our local municipal "government" is high on something. Nevermind the fact that they are driving landowners to pave over small parks because the local police can't handle a couple of drunk teenagers, now they are fining a mother of...

Not Dead, Defective. So it's not the Hard Drive, but rather, it seems, the right fan is misaligned. According to the technician at the Apple Certified place I went, usually the cause of such misalignment is sudden impact; someone dropped...

("It starts well...") Just took delivery on a brand new MacBook Pro. The only customized part was the 160Gig Hard Drive. Unpacked, let the battery charge up to full. Press the power button and ... ROOOAAARRRRRRrrrrrrrr... Nice, the Hard Drive...

Flickr patents "Interestingness". Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as "interestingness." These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the...

Absolutely most see. "Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at ... all » school, the places oil centre stage as...

setfacl gets soooo much more useful after you realise you can also getfacl. facl. getfacl --access --tabular -R -P ... ah that's why you can't do anything on that server, Jer......