With the release of wordpress 2.6.1 I have once again updated my hackergotchi. This will be my third hackergotchi since 2006, and the original image was taken by my mother at our cottage in Pointe au Baril, and yes I am sitting on the barrel that markes the site of the original barrel that the [...]
Archive of posts filed under the earobinson category.
DeadlineExceededError on Google App Engine
A while back I wrote a post about using Google docs as an expense tracker. The post received a lot of great feedback and so when I wanted to learn about Google App Engine I decided the best way was to create a Google app that connects to my Google docs to let the user [...]
Hello World 2.6
I just upgraded to wordpress 2.6, and I am also now using the base theme. I know I have not posted in a while I have been working on another project, but I do have a post in the works. Edit: let me know any problems that you find with the blog due to the [...]
Summer Internship With The Citizen Lab
This summer I am lucky enough to be doing an internship with the Citizen Lab at the Unervisity of Toronto. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world [...]
Three XP Keys, But No XP Install
<rant>Although I get to use Linux mostly for work and personally, there always comes a time when I need to use Windows. It could be that I need to write a program for Windows, or that I have a friend, or family member that needs windows for something. This is one of those times. What [...]
Geek Poll: What Do You Have Open?
I am a sucker for memes so In responce to this I give you: 1 firefox window 6 firefox tabs 0 emacs windows 0 emacs buffers 3 gnome-terminal windows 5 gnome-terminal tabs 1 text editor (geany) 9 geany tabs 1 IM window (pidgin) 6 pidgin tabs 1 music player (Banshee)
WordPress Bugs and My Call For Help
I have been blogging for quite some time. During that time I have used blogspot.com, wordpress.com and now my own wordpress install. The main thing that has made me move from platform to platform is gaining more and more control over my blogging experience. With that said as of late I have been having some [...]
Google Docs As An Expense Tracker
I am a huge fan of the google docs, In fact I am pretty much a fan of all of googles services. I love having all my information with me wherever I go and I am willing to “sacrifice” my privacy in exchange for that service. Anything really important and I will keep it on [...]
Mapping Wikipedia
I was reading reddit the other day and stumbled upon the fact that wikipedia has an API. Neat I thought, and having some free time since my exams are now over I figured I would play around a bit with it. When I browse wikipedia I often click from link to link, and have come [...]
My top 10 commands 2.0
I know that this has been done before but it seems to go around every once in a while and I always have fun reading them. So once again here are my top 10 commands. My Computer [sourcecode language="python"]earobinson@MinusOne:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 143 cd 114 ls 53 [...]
