var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-83171-5"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); Tumblr (3.0; @briantrice)http://blog.briantrice.com/<p>just returned from a ride up and down the Columbia Gorge, up to The Dalles. forgot my camera, but it was fun.</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/198004966http://blog.briantrice.com/post/198004966Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:22:08 -0700<p>Also, I’ve hooked up with two old friends this week, and still can have the same quality discussions with each. Better than before, really.</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/197246883http://blog.briantrice.com/post/197246883Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:26:06 -0700<p>reduced my Squeak mailing list subscriptions to just the daily digest of the main list, which I skim. Squeak meta-data only for me now.</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/197246878http://blog.briantrice.com/post/197246878Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:26:06 -0700<p>[slate-language] <a href="http://bit.ly/RkYmh">http://bit.ly/RkYmh</a> Brian T. Rice - 1 commits</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/197246894http://blog.briantrice.com/post/197246894Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:26:06 -0700<p>Belated meeting report: The PDX geospatial user group had a great talk about cave-mapping, GIS, and developing processes to validate maps</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/197246889http://blog.briantrice.com/post/197246889Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:26:06 -0700<p>Linus Torvalds is playing pool upstairs at this #linuxcon party. But I think they picked the wrong DJs for this event.</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/194774556http://blog.briantrice.com/post/194774556Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:06:21 -0700<p>a commute that goes east in the morning and west in the evening is kind of painful on the eyes when there’s not enough cloud cover. #zigzag</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/193993991http://blog.briantrice.com/post/193993991Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:35:51 -0700<p>Huh! Benadryl is listed as a valid #psoriasis treatment. which I kind of knew, but never guessed it would be officially sanctioned</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/193993986http://blog.briantrice.com/post/193993986Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:35:51 -0700<p>is somehow the product of a damaged war veteran and a burned out white witch, and a lot of reactionary fundamentalism. And yet not…</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/193993976http://blog.briantrice.com/post/193993976Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:35:50 -0700<p>bored, and not interested in the major scheduled events tonight…</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/191624926http://blog.briantrice.com/post/191624926Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:28:20 -0700<p>Home Internet access out for 48 hours now. I might call Comcast tomorrow about it. @<a href="http://twitter.com/pdxfunc">pdxfunc</a> may have to wait for those slides</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/189270459http://blog.briantrice.com/post/189270459Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:38:38 -0700<p>back in pdx after a weekend in Seattle and a ride through Mt. Rainer and Mt. St. Helens parks. My V-Strom hit 20,000 miles in 20 months</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/187506163http://blog.briantrice.com/post/187506163Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:38:49 -0700<a href="http://abhishek.geek.nz/docs/lisp-answers/">abhishek.geek.nz - Before you start learning Lisp</a>: <p>Many people acquainted with other programming languages take an interest in Lisp based on advice, hype, rumour or plain curiosity.<br/> Whatever the motive, they often dive in expecting to find a new but…</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/183683887http://blog.briantrice.com/post/183683887Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:19:06 -0700<p>checked out Ground Kontrol tonight, watched gamers play RockBand Beatles surprisingly well, played vector graphics Star Wars and Berzerk</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/183526134http://blog.briantrice.com/post/183526134Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:22:58 -0700<p>ɹǝʎɐls ɟo ʎɐp lɐuoıʇɐu *nod*</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/183526128http://blog.briantrice.com/post/183526128Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:22:57 -0700<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin.ars">"Anonymized" data really isn't—and here's why not - Ars Technica</a>: <p>“Such work by computer scientists over the last fifteen years has shown a serious flaw in the basic idea behind “personal information”: almost all information can be “personal” when combined with…</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/183497374http://blog.briantrice.com/post/183497374Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:17:57 -0700<a href="http://smalltalk.felk.cvut.cz/projects/smallruby">SmallRuby</a>: <p>SmallRuby is an implementation of Ruby programming language for Smalltalk/X virtual machine.</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/182742440http://blog.briantrice.com/post/182742440Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:46:09 -0700<a href="http://clamato.net/">Clamato: A Smalltalk Dialect for JavaScript</a>: <p>Clamato is a Smalltalk dialect that is designed to operate within the JavaScript runtime. Clamato is self-hosting, in that it can compile itself to efficient JavaScript, entirely within the web…</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/182742437http://blog.briantrice.com/post/182742437Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:46:09 -0700<a href="http://www.newsless.org/2009/08/the-3-key-parts-of-news-stories-you-usually-dont-get/">The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get at Newsless.org</a>: <p>I’ve come to the conclusion that there are four key parts to news stories, and we typically only get one of them, even though journalists possess all four, and the other three are arguably more…</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/182742431http://blog.briantrice.com/post/182742431Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:46:08 -0700<p>spent last night and this morning with returning friends and girlfriend from Burning Man, on their way back to Seattle</p>http://blog.briantrice.com/post/182577086http://blog.briantrice.com/post/182577086Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:53:58 -0700