Tue, 31 Jul 2007
A winning streak
I seem to be on a bit of a winning streak lately...
- A couple of weeks back I won tickets to the Christchurch preview of The Simpsons Movie. A chorus of "Spider-pig" has been heard around the house by various singers since...
- Then last week I entered a "Name the Thing Contest" contest on the Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog and won a Aryca D-pod mini camera tripod like this. The D-pod gets a good user review:
...little tripod - an aryca, very lightweight and strong. It is actually an extremely well designed bit of kit and folds flat into 15x5x1.5cm, so that it is easy to carry in ones pocket. Again I find it extremely useful...
I've recently acquired a Black and White parallel port QuickCam without a base so until it gets absorbed by a project the D-pod can serve as a base. - And then of course there's this Saturday... :-)
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Fri, 27 Jul 2007
pwyky wiki
Like many hackerly-inclined individuals I tend to develop or research a lot more stuff than I release or comment on. The reasons for non-release vary but generally relate to the non-trivial amount of work it takes to put even a half-baked idea on a webpage or blog entry. (A workload increased by the accompanying handy case of perfection-itis.)
The amount of work required to document something depends significantly on the tools at hand so in light of that I've installed a version of the pwyky python wiki on code.rancidbacon.com. The version I'm running is actually a cosmetically modified version of a modified pwyky version hacked by a guy I ran into during my Google Maps hacking escapades. There's some notes on the modified pwyky version and they include some Apache configuration suggestions also.
I'm treating the site as a "one-way wiki"--it's intended to make it easy for me to update it, not in order foster community additions. Various obvious reasons apply.
The updated site will include project documentation and general link-storage--I guess a local del.icio.us replacement--in an attempt to reduce my browser-tabbage when I'm exploring half a dozen paths at once. While much of the wiki is intended purely for my use I made it public on the off-chance it ends up being useful for anyone else.
With some use of mod_rewrite I think I even managed to preserve the existing URLs on the site.
"Oh, I'll chuck it in the wiki" will hopefully help with my information processing activities... :-)
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007
Event
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