I'm a naturally shy person, and a group of burners and goths at a rooftop party is not exactly my natural setting. Still Charly Gienau, one of the organizers, made me feel very welcome there, and I certainly had a blast shooting it!
I was originally drawn to the idea …
I recently finished The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande, and the short version of the review is this: you should read it.
For those few still reading, I'll go into a little more detail about the book. Atul Gawande is an associate professor at the …
I was listening to the A Little Bit of Python podcast and heard them discuss the difficulty of logging with the standard Python logging module. I was a little surprised, because I don't think it's THAT hard to use. The logging module, quite frankly, requires a lot of boilerplate code …
What is management? It's a question someone asked me recently, and I find the topic fascinating. (If your eyes have already glazed over, please bear with me -- I promise I'll never use the word "paradigm" or tell you what you should be thinking in or out of.) I'm passionate about …
This is my third real exploration of both my renewed interest in photography and my new camera, my Panasonic Lummix GF1. I had a great time, and it was very gracious of Yoko to invite me to the benefit and show me around.
Photographically speaking there were a few big …
How A Healthy Man Ended Up In The Hospital -- My Mistakes:
I hike and do martial arts training regularly, and consider myself in reasonably good shape. However, on Monday I started an exercise program with a local Crossfit affiliate, Team Crossfit.
This was an intense workout, but I've done intense …
A client had an OS X server with tens of thousands of files in a directory tree, and wanted to move some of them based on their creation date. I put together a Python script that worked perfectly on my test system, but failed in production. (I put in a …
I just reimaged my laptop, and discovered that the "apropos" command had nothing in its database. (You use "apropos" to look up man pages related to a topic. It looks through an index to find appropriate pages to list, and the periodic maintenance tasks had not created the index.) OK …
This is the sort of thing that's second nature to a command-line geek, but I thought it was cool enough (in its little way) to share.
The problem: I have a process that runs on a remote server for quite a while. I wish to be alerted when it completes …
"Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management" by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby is a strange book; while not having any ideas that are really NEW to anyone who's read the other management books I've recommended, BCD still manages to impress and be worth reading. It does this by having …