Questioning Coffee Geeks with Science

Monday, October 19th, 2009

There are a few people I work with who are very passionate about coffee, which is something I enjoy very much as well, and have been known to geek out on. Recently, I passed around this video from Sweet Maria’s, which is one of the bean providers the most enthusiastic of said co-workers shops with. [...]

FlickrPress now available: Turns Flickr RSS to WordPress Posts

Friday, October 16th, 2009

My wife and I like to post a lot of photos of our son to his blog. After using WordPress from both the browser and the iPhone client, I just wasn’t that happy using it for our pictures. On the other hand, we both love (and already use, and have Pro accounts on) Flickr. Having [...]

Testing perl system interactions

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

A lot of the code I end up needing to work on makes calls to various executables to read and process system state. It might be DTrace, or one of the tools that comes with the Virtuozzo/OpenVZ management suite, or one of the HP hardware monitoring tools — they all want to be called from [...]