Ben Humphreys

Mar 10

Was trying to remember Python framework name: “Pot? Jar? Lamp?” The answer was Bottle. #synonymfail

Reading about the Mayan writing system. Fascinating stuff!

Reading about the Mayan writing system. Fascinating stuff!

RT: @benschwarz: annnd heres where @foursquare start selling all the information you gave them. Enjoy, kids. http://bit.ly/drYXYt

Got Mecab working, but ideally I want to put this online and I can’t get root access to install this on most servers.

Nevermind, trying Mecab/Chawan/Ruby stuff now

Wondering if it’d be worth making a pure-Ruby version of Mecab for portability and a fun project.

Also trying out www.alfredapp.com (via @puresock)

Want to get a Japanese Part-of-Speech tagger up and running, but it’s always the setup that takes ages.

Mar 09

chasenを使ってみようっと。。。なんか動かないな。日本語POSでいろいろ試してみたいだけ。。

http://godzillahaiku.tumblr.com/ GENIUS

Cafes with Wifi/LAN/Power http://hack-space.com/ (via @miyagawa, @dice)

I want a shiny status board like this at work! http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/ via @panic

Open Data! http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide.html I want more tagged corpuses

Mar 08

Listening to http://bit.ly/dqX7GG, found them as they feature on the new Gorillaz album.

How I roll at work: dual vertical screens, vertical start bar, vertical ffox tabs. Who needs widescreen when you’re 80-character coding.