Starting Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade on last two boxes.
Software Development
Open Font Library
CSS3 is bringing @font-face, which finally allows us to use a variety of real fonts on the web. Huzzah! This site offers a variety of fonts in an Open Font License. Hopefully the number of fonts available will grow over time.
Starting 2nd Ubuntu upgrade to 9.04. First one went very smooth.
Wha? Ubuntu 9.04 released? Time for do-release-upgrade?
Suspenders ← Cool starter project to get you going with your Rails work faster. Nice.
You could spend a nearly infinite amount of time goofing around with Cacti.
It seems fitting that make doc for git takes way longer than making the binaries.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce looks interesting. Opens up some new solution paths!
Tracking Twitter Followers with Cacti
Two weeks ago I was one of the guests on Midmorning on Minnesota Public Radio for a show about Twitter. The result has been a lot of conversations lately about Twitter. I was intrigued to see how many people had started following me from the show and before you knew it I felt the …
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I missed the 2 year birthday of my Twitter robot, Thinglesbot. He turned 2 on March 11. He was limping along though having lost connections to various sensors in the house and became a bit uninteresting. I finally took a little time tonight to get him wired up again. Happily he …
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