December 2009
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Dec 29th
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I ♥ grep
grep -o 'isbn=[0-9]\{10\}' | sort -u That is how you scrape the HTML source of your weRead page to get a nice CSV of ISBNs to export to GoodReads. Handy until they get proper export functionality.
Dec 29th
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Dec 24th
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“Prepare for Death, if here at Night you roam, And sign your Will before you...”
– Samuel Johnson on Old London Town
Dec 23rd
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Japan is: A clash of old and new
I hate when you have a power surge and all the lights go out and you go around turning the heaters and gas and computer and everything back on and a little while later you sit down on a cold toilet seat. This obstructive shock is the price we pay for having 21st century conveniences in badly wired Showa era housing.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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What I expect
This is too perfect in its entirety to simply publish a pullquote. Enjoy the whole thing and give Marco props. marco: My content will be stolen and republished in ways that violate my extremely permissive Creative Commons license. This will be done by both bots and humans. The bots will use my content to steal pennies from advertisers and time from people. Some of the humans won’t realize...
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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The Baby Staring Problem — Or, am I supposed to...
When you are a child, and you are staring at some person for being drunk or dressed funny: your mom hits you. If you are down in the pub and some bloke starts giving you the eyeball: you hit him. That’s the rules, refined over generations. However, another rule (well, more like a derivative corollary) that you learn elsewhere when you are a kid is: Don’t hit old ladies. This is the...
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Who do I have to lobby to get more content for my...
I assume Amazon is in deep negotiations with publishers to get more content on the Kindle. As an engaged consumer, with the power of the internet behind me, why should I leave it solely up to Jeff Bezos and Crew? I want to know what I can do as a consumer to help sway publishers to release more content in digital form. I think this is a chance for Amazon to leverage its massive customer base....
Dec 2nd
November 2009
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Nov 30th
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Nov 30th