Earthquake
The Bay Area just experienced a moderate earthquake. This felt stronger than any others that I've experienced in the 12 years that I've lived here. Still it wasn't bad and we had no discernible damage.
Month: October 2007
HTTP Proxy Client
From http://httppc.sourceforge.net/: HTTP Proxy Client is the small set of libraries and scripts, which provides transparent access to Internet via HTTP proxy for programs, which uses TCP/IP for communication. The list of...
Possible fix for using apt through a broken HTTP proxy
Seen on a work email list. A possible solution to the problem where files downloaded through apt-get on Ubuntu at work (where we have a squid HTTP proxy) periodically get corrupted. Put the following in apt.conf:...
links for 2007-10-29
The Django Book Welcome to the online version of The Django Book, a free book about Django. The book is due to be published in 2007 by Apress, but in the meantime you can read the "beta" book online. (tags: django python book...
Pinnacles National Monument
Did some hiking at Pinnacles National Monument (Wikipedia article). We went to the West entrance, near Soledad (the East entrance is near Hollister)....
WordPress 2.3.1
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1. $ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.1 ... Updated to revision 6294.
links for 2007-10-26
Tutorial : Using JSON with Flex 2 and ActionScript 3 Adobe has some open source ActionScript libraries available that include JSON support (tags: json flex actionscript programming flash) Basking Ridge Wiki (tags: baskingridge)...