i’m swimming in data. i need something that will let me take a stream of data (filehandle on a text file, in this case) and graph it in real-time. i need to be able to spin up a new real-time graph for an arbitrary number of datapoints completely ad hoc. i need scatter graphs and…

coffeenicole has instituted a rule in our house. the kids can ask nothing of us until after we’ve had two cups of coffee. this has helped; note the time of this entry. today celeste asked me to make coffee. boozehad tapas and drinks at cascal, wednesday. first exposure to mojitos and i’m sold. rum, soda water,…

there are a few bay area college radio stations that i don’t think i could live without. kfjc is what radio stations should aspire to be. well trained djs with good scope of music knowledge and a free form format. i am a huge supporter of kfjc. kpfa is good to have around as pacifica…

this is easily the most useful perl module i’ve found in recent history: Parallel::ForkManager. doing something in parallel without the overhead of actually writing really multithreaded code is quite cool. use Parallel::ForkManager;$pm = new Parallel::ForkManager($MAX_PROCESSES); foreach $data (@all_data) {# Forks and returns the pid for the child:my $pid = $pm->start and next;work goes here$pm->finish; # Terminates…

i picked up a microsoft mn-710 usb 802.11g dongle, last friday. the microsoft company store had them for $40 (access points for $70, pci and pccard nics also for $40). with the recent purchase and bastardization of a linksys wrt54gs, i thought i should at least have one 54mbit/sec capable nic in the house. looks like we just…

to sod or not to sod… the backyard on the new house is in pretty bad shape. i’ve been contemplating the options. the guy at dale hardware suggested starting with weed and feed, just to see what it’ll do. he said that there’s typically lots of grass lying dormant under all the thistles and weeds. we’ll see…

i’ve caved. while i still don’t understand the appeal of blogs, more people i know are maintaining them everyday. i’ve found acutal information in them, i’ve been impressed by the design of them and i’ve occationally thought about keeping an online diary to report on the status of something… so, i’ve caved. this is a…