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Philly Geek Awards 2012 On Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/48292290 I attended the Philly Geek Awards two weeks ago and had a great time. (If you don’t blink, you can see me in the background sporting my kilt at a couple of moments in the video above.) I was there representing WordCamp Philly for Local Event of the Year (we didn’t win, alas). If…
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CLANG: A Worthy Kickstarter From Neal Stephenson
Respect Stephenson: the man’s a true geeks’ geek. (I agree with @gruber: you must watch the video for the full effect.) Might this be the first Kickstarter that I end up contributing to?
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Imperial Fleet Week San Francisco
Nerd-tastic:
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Tweet Fulfillment
There are days that I’m amazed by the Internet, and then there are days that it lives downup to my expectations. Take, for instance, a recent Tweet of mine in which I pondered I was quickly answered by Stephane, who pointed out the wonderfully-implemented and -documented iPod Shuffle RAID0 array. A few days thereafter, Slashdot…
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Just Call Me MacGyver: Systems Administrator
I’m working a bit late today as I had to schedule some downtime for a critical piece of hardware that needed to be powered down, lightly disassembled, have a part replaced and then powered back up. As I unscrewed the part to be replaced, I thought to myself “Boy, it’d sure stink if I dropped…
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1/2 Scale Panzer Tank Built By College Student
…Membership in fraternity mentioned in article. Color me surprised. *grin*
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Philadelphia Metro Residents: Get Thee To The Franklin Institute
For lo, Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination is currently running and is eminently check-out-able. (CrunchGear has pictures to prove it.)
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My Friend Flickr
If you’re looking for something to while away a Wednesday afternoon, you could do far worse than the following photosets on Flickr: Understanding art for geeks and Andy Ihnatko’s awesome behind-the-scenes tour of Alcatraz. Well worth your time, both of ’em.
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There’s Just No Accounting For Crazy. Or Masochistic. Or Masochistic-Crazy.
As I wended my way home last night, I was listening to this “week’s” FLOSS Weekly and just about had to pull my car to the side of the road, due to my sheer astonishment. Leo and Randal had a developer on who was promoting Seaside, a web development framework for Smalltalk (particularly the Squeak…
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It Is Here, Thus I Shall Not Be
Awww yeah. Our copies arrived at work this morning — this is my first official post from a newly-Leopardized Mac Pro. I’m about to give Bootcamp a spin and my Applications folder is near-pristine, so I’ve lots of work to do.Onward, upward and Leopard.W00t!