Random picture of my cat, Vol. 19 »
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 30, 2007 in cats, pics | 0 Comments
Archive for June, 2007
Florida Home 18: 2007-06-30, The Hamlet, Delray Beach »
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 30, 2007 in florida home, work | 0 Comments
Neighborhood of the week is The Hamlet in Delray Beach. DOWNLOAD THE PRINT SECTION Print pages in PDF: Right-click and save-as to download (16.8 MB, 18 pages)
Moving day »
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 29, 2007 in house, meta | 0 Comments
The big news around the Hartnett household today isn’t the iPhone, it’s the big move into our new house. The cats are no doubt peeing all over the pristine carpet as I type these very words. Awww. This is the 12th move in the past decade for me, and the 11th for my wife, so [...]
Will Sullivan officially elevated to pundit status. Demands for hefty consulting fees to follow? »
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 27, 2007 in newspapers | 3 Comments
Colleague Will Sullivan does the Q&A thing over at the Innovation in College Media blog, and reveals that he currently subscribes to 986 RSS feeds, which is TOTALLY INSANE. And to think Scoble gets all the attention for his paltry 622 subscriptions. Seriously, though, if Will tops 1,000 feeds I’m going to kidnap the guy [...]
If a tree fails to download in the forest due the server timing out … »
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 27, 2007 in whinging | 0 Comments
Put this in your Philosophy 101 pipe and smoke it: If bandwidth at your office is so choked by co-workers watching Possessed Demon Cat on YouTube and bidding on Bob Dylan memorabilia on eBay that normally fast-loading web sites time out or are rendered as unstyled HTML, and even the site that tests your bandwidth [...]
Florida’s superiority in the field of weird news remains unchallenged »
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 27, 2007 in newspapers, oddities | 0 Comments
What an extraordinary week it’s been for strange news on the cops beat ’round my way. Consider the following five stories from Paul Quinlan, The Post’s new St. Lucie County cops reporter, and Allyson Bird, who just left the same job and now works in the north Palm Beach County office.
More hot aviation action: First pics of the 787 leaving the assembly line »
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 26, 2007 in geekery | 0 Comments
First 787 leaving the assembly line and heading into the paint shop. More pictures from Charles Conklin via the Airliners.net forums after the jump. And, if you’re really, really interested, stay bang up to date on all things 787 at flightblogger.
Inspiration for the downtrodden cubicle-dwellers »
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 25, 2007 in oddities | 0 Comments
Sick of working for Da Man? Thinking about striking out on your own, but afraid of the risk? The Census Bureau has a bit of inspiration for you: ‘Lone Wolves’ Boost Nonemployer Businesses Past 20 Million. An average of 2,356 people took their job and shoved it every day in 2005, going into business for [...]
How an awesome hurricane-tracking web site is made »
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 25, 2007 in weather | 2 Comments
Ever wanted to make your own sweet hurricane-tracking web site, like Stormpulse? Ha! Best get started studying up on Python, MySQL, Apache, FreeBSD, etc. in that case. But if you can settle for simply reading how the people actually behind a hurricane-tracking web site did it, check out the latest post on the Stormpulse blog: [...]
