…hedgehogs!
This cute fellow visited us tonight. I was walking out from the bathroom when it made its way across the hallway. It hid under the staircase leading to the second floor. It took some engineering (moving furniture, shoes and misc stuff around) to get him to leave.
Also in the category “animals in our house”: Early bird
I’ve been beta testing Krugle for some time, and Yesterday they went live. It has already saved me quite some time when coding on different projects.
Krugle is a search engine specifically targeted at developers. It indexes source code, technical information and information on projects and lets you search it using a very nice web interface (very Web 2.0).
I’ve had this one ready for release for atleast a week, but I couldn’t come up with a decent name for it. It’s a 140bpm psy/goa track with many classic elements. Enjoy!
edit: Forgot the link! Doh! “Destination Cairo” (5:05) 5.9MB
Recently I’ve been feeling a bit fed up with the whole Web 2.0 thing. I develop software, including web applications, for a living, so of course I appreciate the “new” possibilities that have emerged from XMLHttpRequest etc, but sometimes it just seems… a bit much. There’s also the Ruby on Rails movement. I’ve tried Ruby (the language) but there’s going to take a lot to drag me away from Perl, I’ll tell you that.
Recently I’ve been unsubscribing a lot of my Web 2.0 related feeds on Bloglines, and it actually feels good. I need a break. I’m also doing a lot of regular native client programming (C# in .NET) at work right now, which also feels good.
Maybe I’m just cranky ‘coz I can’t keep up with all the cool javascript libraries being released every other day. :)
Wow! When I published my “Hay-fever” post yesterday, I immediately got 5 comment spam. I’m not the world’s most active blogger – and probably not that interesting to the world – so this surprised me a bit. Anyway, I got me an API key, activated Akismet and today Akismet have intercepted 39 comment spam for me. Nice!
I published yesterdays post from Ecto. This is the only difference from previous posts. I’m sure Ecto had nothing to do with this though. It was just bad luck. Fortunately for me, Akismet seems like a rock solid plugin for fighting comment spam.