February 2010
115 posts
Anonymous asked: Do you liek mudkipz?
Anonymous asked: When are you coming to Australia?
I’ve felt this so many times, finally someone put it into words. The fake achievement feeling virus http://j.mp/aN66i8 /via @ben_h
I just became the mayor of Unfollowing People Who Play Foursquare!
Playing with shiny new Sass and Haml is fun :D
I wonder if smokers and tabacco companies will pay for the amount of clothes cleaning stuff I have to use to get rid of their “cool” stench
Struggling to get to grips with DataMapper::Resource and multiple “has n through”s
I’m going to a pancake party!
SSDs are truely awesome. SPEED!
3 tags
Sure, why not: http://blog.benhumphreys.co.uk/ask
Thinking about starting a new experiment — trying to live vegetarian in Japan, because I like a challenge.
And no fish either. You can’t be vegetarian and eat fish.
Looking into using Processing to visualize some data
wow s/a/b/ in skype actually modifies the previous message. #nerds (via @dylanegan) So cool!
Box of tissues in Lawson with “School of Lock” on them. Sigh.
perlcrit hates MooseX::Declare
Time to MooseX::Declare the crap out of everything
I fixed up our resident status indicating feline. I broke her when giving her a randomized tail. http://pastie.org/839884
CPAN upgrade party!
Brrrrrmmm Sinatra!
Oh. So you write Triumph as TORIMPU eh Japan? That’s original. And you wonder why you find it hard to learn English. Accuracy > Style.
I made an 8 gb text file by accident with grep “use” -rh . > tmp.txt
This year it’s in Ibaraki :O @kakutani: rubykaigi! http://bit.ly/8Z4uDq
東京にある無線ランスポットのリスとありますかね
Sinatra is really awesome. All the cleanliness of Ruby, less of the hassle of Rails, all of the awesome of writing small fun apps!
That’s the second time in Japan I’ve seen a guy wearing a Royal Mail jacket. Where are they getting them from? It’s freaky.
“Low floor, high ceiling” about programming languages gives me weird images of nerds clinging to ceiling fans, making whooping noises.
UUIDs are SUPER unique. “6ba7b814-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8” This one is so unique it has 9 dads.
Curling is still a complete mystery to me. Also the difference in ages between the German and Japanese teams is interesting…
This weekend for the first time I was discriminated against because of my race. Got turned down for a nice apartment because Im non Japanese
Moving towards using @mongodb in production, to record statistics. Schemaless means we can record random nested stuff as we think of it!
Installing stuff from CPAN can be such a black box of WTF sometimes :(
I want to use Cucumber :( http://cukes.info/
Digital analog. Interesting interface for Hipstamatic http://bit.ly/8LceYZ
On a crazy adventure down tiny backstreets in a huge car with a Japanese estate agent. Fun times. :D
Looking for a new apartment. Smaller, cheaper, more interesting area. Thinking 三軒茶屋、下北沢、吉祥寺 etc. Ideas?
Reading about N-Grams
Python Eggs seem like a real hassle compared to Gems. easy_install is OK but it’s not nearly as shiny. Python experts am I wrong?
I think I need a project to rekindle my love of programming. Ideas?
Great little note-taking app Notational Velocity: http://bit.ly/LEUUf I used to use Voodoo pad but that seems to have died.
This is why the best documentaries are British. The US turns it into an action film: http://bit.ly/dcTMlB Narrated by Oprah Winfrey. :/
New Ubisoft games require constant internet connection, perfect server uptime to play. So glad I don’t care anymore. http://bit.ly/aEvKSX
Dousing for bombs http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8478857.stm $85m spent on devices that are empty plastic shells.
Congratulations!! RT: @jgl7188: My essay got published in the English Asahi Shinbun today! :) http://bit.ly/9nH9LA
Cycled to work today!