Today (thanks to Jeremy and Rasmus) I learned about a tool that I never knew I needed but now can’t live without: Mozilla LiveHTTPHeaders. I’ve been debugging HTTP for years using trusty text-based tools like telnet and nc, but today a quasi-technical person stopped by my cube to ask for help with a caching problem […]
Here’s my own personal Yahoo! Year in Review (i.e. the highlights of my job in 2003): In January, I started my new role as an Engineering Manager, leading my own 3-person team. The change of job responsibilities was just the thing to get me charged up about work again. A month later I finally got […]
Minutes ago, there was a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in California — 11 km NE of San Simeon. That was one big quake. The building shook for over a minute.
I just received a rather amusing MP3 in my email today: (I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica (1.7 MB) Turns out it’s a Tom Lehrer song from 1990. Check out the lyrics. The Yom Kippah rhyme is a bit of a stretch, but I guess that’s what they call poetic license. 🙂 Related: check out […]
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DBM-style flat files are great, but sometimes it’s hard to deal with binary formats. Being able to have data in a textual format can be very handy for transferring between different platforms, modifying in your favorite editor, crunching with standard tools like grep, etc. There are a couple of text-friendly DBM export out there, each […]
Stuck in bed this weekend with a cold, Ariella bought me a copy of Introducing Chomsky, 2nd Edition. Between naps and feeling sorry for myself, I managed to read the entire book. Since I’ve already read a few of Steven Pinker’s books, the first half of this book (Chomsky’s theories on linguistics) seemed a little […]
I want the equivalent of Fetch Art for iTunes for Windows. I’m not sure how easy it would be to write my own. Apple seems to provide a iTunes Visual Plug-ins SDK for Windows but it’s not clear if there is a generic plug-in architecture for things other than visualizations (i.e. audio formats or generic […]
Zawodny thinks he needs mod_gzip but in fact he’d probably like mod_deflate for Apache/1.3 better.
Ariella and 10,999 other University of California teaching assistants will strike on Thursday. Although Los Angeles has had its share of labor disputes recently (the MTA bus strike was settled a couple of weeks ago and the Ralph’s/Vons/Albertson’s strike/lockout has been going on for 8 weeks now), this thing is gonna be statewide. TAs from […]