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go stormchasing

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:01:08 -0400

go stormchasing:

Iain Lowe adopted this goal

drink nothing but water for 30 days

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:31:44 -0400

drink nothing but water for 30 days:

Iain Lowe adopted this goal

lead 5.11s

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:32:43 -0400

lead 5.11s:

Iain Lowe adopted this goal

Go ice climbing

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:32:43 -0400

Go ice climbing:

Iain Lowe adopted this goal

climb a big wall

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:32:43 -0400

climb a big wall:

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go rock climbing

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:32:43 -0400

go rock climbing:

Iain Lowe completed this goal (worth it!)

grow my own vegetables

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:43:01 -0400

grow my own vegetables:

Iain Lowe completed this goal (worth it!)

Enable bash color prompt in Ubuntu

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:26:45 -0400

This little script will enable a colored PS1 in bash.


#!/bin/bash

X=`mktemp`; cat ~/.bashrc | sed "s/^#force_color_prompt=yes/force_color_prompt=yes/g" > $X; mv $X ~/.bashrc

build an iPhone app

Mon, 18 May 2009 23:31:55 -0400

build an iPhone app:

Iain Lowe adopted this goal

Looking into the fire at Elgin

Sat, 16 May 2009 02:25:06 -0400

Looking into the fire at Elgin

Photo

Sat, 16 May 2009 02:19:35 -0400

"How do you stop a VMWare Workstation from sending through “beeps” to the PC..."

Wed, 13 May 2009 14:08:57 -0400

“How do you stop a VMWare Workstation from sending through “beeps” to the PC speaker/soundcard? Well… look here and find out.”

- Turn off the PC speaker “beeps” in VMWare

"If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and..."

Wed, 13 May 2009 13:46:53 -0400

“If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with principles to which the success is tied.”

- John W Powell : The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers

"Not every service that is built on Amazon EC2, for example, is a spoke to it. Many services are..."

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:02:47 -0400

“Not every service that is built on Amazon EC2, for example, is a spoke to it. Many services are simply customers of EC2 and so shouldn’t be confused with being spokes, because as far as the customer is concerned it is not part of the hub’s ecosystem.”

- Thinking Out Cloud: Hubs, Spokes and Islands in the Cloud

"List the features you want to see in your program, and then cull it down to three milestones: 1. The..."

Wed, 13 May 2009 09:57:44 -0400

“List the features you want to see in your program, and then cull it down to three milestones: 1. The bare minimum you would need to implement before you let anyone see your code. 2. The bare minimum functionality you would need to implement before people could legitimately make use of your code 3. As above, but stable and well-documented enough to be used in a production system (for libraries), or by non-programmer end-users (for applications) Milestone 1 is your v0.5. Milestone 2 is v0.9. Milestone 3 is v1.0.”

- Version Numbers and You - The Fishbowl

"Excla.im is a jabber bot that allows you to update your twitter status very simply. All you need to..."

Tue, 12 May 2009 13:23:03 -0400

“Excla.im is a jabber bot that allows you to update your twitter status very simply. All you need to get started is a jabber account (google talk will work as well) and a twitter account.”

- Welcome :: excla.im

"The idea is simple: Find tweets that contain this phrase, parse out the location they’d just landed..."

Tue, 12 May 2009 13:05:10 -0400

“The idea is simple: Find tweets that contain this phrase, parse out the location they’d just landed in, along with the home location they list on their Twitter profile, and use this to map out travel in the Twittersphere (yes, I just used the phrase ‘Twittersphere’).”

- Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data | blprnt.blg

"Git has a rebase command which allows you to take a local branch and change its branch point to a..."

Tue, 12 May 2009 11:43:12 -0400

“Git has a rebase command which allows you to take a local branch and change its branch point to a more recent revision. For example, if one is working on a new feature for a product, a local branch may have been started from the 1.0 release. If while still working on the feature the main product line has been updated to 1.1, it may be desirable to pull in the 1.0->1.1 changes onto the local feature branch and treat it as a branch from 1.1 instead of 1.0. In most other systems, this is done by merging the 1.1 changes onto the branch. Merging is the right thing to do from an SCM perspective, where the focus is on ‘reproducibility of past states’. However, when the focus is ‘authoring a clean software revision history’, rebasing is sometimes a superior method. git-rebase allows you to make a previously non-linear history linear, keeping the history cleaner. To be fair, the same deltas are produced by simply merging every commit from the 1.0 version to the 1.1 version individually, and committing them individually. Rebasing is about safely doing this and then deleting the old 1.0 based versions so they don’t clutter the tree.”

- DVCSAnalysis - support - Analysis of Git and Mercurial - Google Code

"What does it take to succeed? A positive attitude? Well, sure, but that’s hardly enough. The Law of..."

Mon, 11 May 2009 12:58:17 -0400

“What does it take to succeed? A positive attitude? Well, sure, but that’s hardly enough. The Law of Attraction? The Secret? These ideas might act as spurs to action, but without the action itself, they don’t do much.”

- 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything - Stepcase Lifehack

"It’d be great if everyone on every other microblogging service switched over to Identi.ca today, but..."

Fri, 08 May 2009 18:39:37 -0400

“It’d be great if everyone on every other microblogging service switched over to Identi.ca today, but for a variety of reasons, it’s going to be a slow (in social media time) process.”

- How to Keep Track of Your Twitter Community After Switching to Identi.ca | Oh, Identi.ca!