Even though I haven’t blogged in a while, I at least try to keep the version of WordPress and PHP up-to-date. Last year, my hosting service DreamHost notified me that it would start charging me for using PHP 7.4, which was no longer supported. So I upgraded all of my PHP installations to version 8.1, …
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Twitter highlights: May 1–7, 2011
James Landay: “Nice profile of Scott Klemmer’s work in Technology Review: Tools for Better Web Design” Watch President Obama announce the death of Osama bin Laden: MSNBC [May 1] Osama’s death have prompted huge crowds to gather at World Trade Ctr. (Wall Street Journal) Hard to believe I was there <36 hrs ago. Sadat Shami: …
Twitter highlights of my trip to New York: April 23–30, 2011
Saturday, April 23 When setting your alarm for a morning flight, make sure it’s set for AM, not PM. Parked in short term and just made it. Don’t remember so many NYC subway service notices, but managed to get to the hotel anyway. Late night pizza nearby for dinner. Sunday, April 24 For brunch, meeting …
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Twitter highlights: April 24–30, 2011
Thou Shalt Not Be Colloquial: why the King James Bible endures (New York Times) Sadat Shami: “Awesome overview of the New York Times’ R&D Lab’s Project Cascade – a tool to explore the life stories in social spaces” (Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard) @StartupJesus: “Googling ‘Torture + Friday’ used to return hits about Good Friday, …
Twitter highlights: April 17–23, 2011
Sadat Shami: “Giving up tenure… and getting happiness in return? Reflections from someone who did” (The Scientist via Nick Diakopoulos) I think I’ll get a standing desk (New York Times) Jeffrey Bigham: “How languages may have diffused from Africa, modeling phonemes” (New York Times) Boris Smus: “Allow me to explain sorting algorithms through interpretive dance” …
Twitter highlights: April 10-16, 2011
Backbone.js is a model-view-controller JavaScript library in just 4KB (via Boris Smus ) SparkFun intros IOIO, which allows Android phones to control DIY electronics. (Engadget) Everyone in Google Doodle for Charlie Chaplin’s birthday are part of Doodle team, and like many of Chaplin’s films, it was filmed in the Niles District of Fremont, California. More …
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14
(2 wks ago) Got back from Pittsburgh yesterday. The pilot announced that the Giants were going to the World Series! # Great talks yesterday at #baychi @egoodman on IxD practices in the field, Xianhang Zhang on social software design. http://bit.ly/a93Tv9 # I'm starting to dig through and reorganize all the computer files I've accumulated over …
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07
@jeffbigham Don't know. Personally, I'd like "Delay by", and so far haven't felt the need for "Delay until". Time for a user study! 🙂 in reply to jeffbigham # #SFGiants #49ers and #Raiders all win on the same day. When was the last time *that* happened? # YEEEESSSSSS!!!! After 56 years, the #SFGiants have run …
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24
Nice article on TurKit with @jeffbigham, @msbernst, and Greg Little. Congrats! http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26535/ # @manukumar So if your mom and bf/gf are both Facebook friends, then Facebook is stressful all the time. in reply to manukumar # @landay Funny, the first meaning I learned for that character was "and". in reply to landay # Powered by …
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-17
Today's date as a binary number, 101010, equals 42. So today is the ultimate day for geeks to get married! /via http://nyti.ms/c2Z4tA # Congrats to the SF Giants! Apparently, the key for them winning a post-season game is for me to not watch it. I only saw Friday's game. # Powered by Twitter Tools