Bloom Filters
are a data structure that can be used to compactly represent a very large set of items. Rapleaf released a Ruby library.
Miwa in HK: Called, or Open Door...?
My friend Maria writes on a subject I’ve been thinking about a lot the last week or two.
I realized that while I have been called clearly to do some things, there are… opportunities where a door has opened, and I have had the choice to walk through and take part, or not.
Apple - Support - Discussions - Boot Camp hosed my OS X partition ...
Yikes! Mine too! PTL for subversion, web based tools and backups, but it looks like I’m working in Windows until I get home and have the tools at hand to reformat :-(
Driver’s License as Ableton Live MIDI Controller (via db3ll)
New web site for Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Their browser fonts of choice? Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, Verdana, Georgia, Helvetica, Arial. (Via Kottke)
Life lessons learned while teaching algebra
- Start with what you’ve got. Write it all down so you can get a good look at it.
- Not sure how to get where you want to go? Start by simplifying what you’ve got.
- Don’t think too hard, just take it one step at a time.
Kottke is back at it
Funny how you don’t really notice when something good is gone until it’s back.
I just checked off my last to-do items for the week. That felt really good. I’ve recently rediscovered Highrise for helping to keep track of it all. I wasn’t busy enough to appreciate it when it was first released, but the way it groups tasks by time is really great if only because I can tell at a glance when I am done for the day.
Good Mourning: Learning to dance again
When some part of our life that we prize suffers a death, that piece of us that attached us to it may die as well… . By grieving those pieces of our lives that have died, we recognize their importance as a part of our lives and say a proper goodbye to them.
Abby and Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins.