the umbrella man
Or… sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. I’ve long had an admiration for errol morris, a filmmaker who seems to just keep getting better (I hate him too!)...
answer & die
A series of events happened lately that caused me to reflect on how simple it would be to kill someone by phone call… or instant message… or perhaps by simply...
breaking wind down
Here’s a killer visualization: http://hint.fm/wind/ It’s a living graphic that provokes and rewards curiosity (zoom in and out, look at the eddies and whorls) as well as teaches. Really astonishing....
restoring mysql tables….
Note to self… use this perl program+backup…. http://blog.tsheets.com/2008/tips-tricks/extract-a-single-table-from-a-mysqldump-file.html And since things break over time… the program. Not mine, use at your own peril, etc… just don’t ask why I needed...
and now… custom fields
Useful little things. Beat on that old perl script and added support… a few lines of code, a lot of beating my head against the wall, but I didn’t see...