I like the Unix DBM file format (a.k.a BerkeleyDB). I use it for static data (like the zip code-to-latitude/longitude database for the Hebcal Interactive Jewish Calendar) and for dynamic data (such as the subscriber database for the Mountain View High School Alumni Internet Directory). BerkeleyDB is also great because it has many language interfaces. I […]
Dave Jeske, one the many brilliant Yahoo! alumni I know, is new to the blogging world. Here’s his second entry: Linux on the Desktop is a long way off, here’s why. I’m a UNIX developer and proud of it. I love the stability, scriptability, and remote administration capabilities of UNIX. I’ve built everything from small […]
Rachel has discovered that Minnesotans play “Duck, duck, gray duck” instead of the traditional “Duck, duck, goose.” She’s been thinking more about it recently, too. James Lileks of the Minneapolis Star & Tribune even wrote an article about the phenomenon. Wow. It’s a compilcated world we live in.
Just discovered this today (by way of Victor Chang):
Reading the most recent copy of PC Magazine, I stumbled across an article called Generating Dummy Text in Word. I gave it a shot this morning, and sure enough, it worked: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over […]
I bought a Palm Zire at Fry’s Electronics last night. It was on sale for $89. I lost my trusty old Palm V in November and have been miserable without it for the past 6 weeks. One of the reasons it took me so long to get a replacement was that I saw it as […]
Well, I completely ripped off the CSS from Jeremy Zawodny’s blog. Still doesn’t look right, but it’s way better than the MovableType defaults. I’m off to UCLA now to hear a lecture about “Seeing as Statistical Inference” for my CS201 class.