Monthly Archives: January 2006

Podcasts I like lately

While being crazy busy, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying these podcasts: Ancestor by Scott Sigler. “On a remote island in Lake Superior, scientists struggle to solve the problem of xenotransplantation — using animal tissue to replace failing human organs. By getting back to the root of our creation, biotech firm Genada hopes to create an animal with human [...]

Server downtime – I wish I had downtime

Our fair server took a dive over night or so. But no worries, it looks like things came back up before I even had much time to worry about it. Hooray for being mostly oblivious. :)

links for 2006-01-24

Achewood – January 23, 2006 “I… I’m afraid I don’t understand. Does that mean you don’t eat cheese?” (tags: comics funny) [...]

links for 2006-01-23

radio babylon – a photoset on Flickr “” (tags: nifty hardware hacks audio wireless) [...]

links for 2006-01-22

HTML Screen Scraping: A How-To Document “This document explains how to do HTML screen scraping. In effect it shows how to treat the Web as a resource by enabling you to retrieve and extract data from [...]

A bit of newsRiver hackery

Update: I moved this code over to my space over at hosting.opml.org and added some updater code from Nicholas Riley’s webdav tool, so that you should be able to just “Get Latest Code…” once you’ve got this installed. (Or reinstalled, if you grabbed last night’s version.) Also, I fixed a bug or two. So, [...]

links for 2006-01-21

Daily Kos: Re: How Conservatives Argue: A Case Study “See, there you liberals go again! Sneaking off to download porn from Kentucky! I’m not forgetting you owe me 100 dollars!” [...]

Re-introducing nightly link posts

It feels all old-school like my first days of posting link blog entries, but I’ve added a “thingy” over at del.icio.us to schedule nightly posts from my day’s bookmarking activity. I was feeling a bit of a lack here, since I completely detached my links from the site after the reboot this past fall. [...]