http://www.earobinson.org "Brilliant people simplify things, and mediocre people complicate things." -- Unknone Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.earobinson.org/2008/06/09/summer-internship-with-the-citizen-lab/ I got my Ubuntu Hardy Heron T-shirt Today. I will try and post some pictures soon. Maybe even update with a new hackergotchi. http://www.earobinson.org/2008/06/05/number_of_t-shirts-number_of_t-shirts-1/ <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 ... http://www.earobinson.org/2008/05/22/three-xp-keys-but-no-xp-install/ 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) http://www.earobinson.org/2008/05/21/geek-poll-what-do-you-have-open/ 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 ... http://www.earobinson.org/2008/05/14/wordpress-bugs-and-my-call-for-help/ 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 ... http://www.earobinson.org/2008/05/08/google-docs-as-an-expense-tracker/ 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 ... http://www.earobinson.org/2008/04/27/mapping-wikipedia/ 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 ... http://www.earobinson.org/2008/04/10/my-top-10-commands-20/ I'm currently working on a cross platform project. The code is C++ and I'm going to be doing most of my development on the linux side but I need all of my compile scripts to be able to work on windows. After doing some googling and talking to people cmake ... http://www.earobinson.org/2008/04/09/cmake/ Today I updated to wordpress 2.5, and I have to say its great. I love the new interface. As well as updating in response to all the websites stealing planet Ubuntu content I am going to try using the ©Feed plugin for wordpress. So we will see how that goes ... http://www.earobinson.org/2008/03/29/hello-world-25/