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Jan 5

“MemcacheDB is a distributed key-value storage system designed for persistent. It is NOT a cache solution, but a persistent storage engine for fast and reliable key-value based object storage and retrieval. It conforms to memcache protocol(not completed, see below), so any memcached client can have connectivity with it. MemcacheDB uses Berkeley DB as a storing backend, so lots of features including transaction and replication are supported.” MemcacheDB: A distributed key-value storage system designed for persistent This looks potentially very useful!

Dec 31

Oktapodi. Love it!

Snowy (& blurry) Bailey

Carnage left from my virgin chili making adventure

Dec 18

Flight of the Conchords Season 2 Premier

Wooot!!! I’ve been waiting for this!

File creation date in Ruby on Macs

Brent Simmons posted about how to get the file creation data in Ruby on a Mac. His solution is good, but suffers from shell injection. Here’s a slightly modifed version that’s not susceptible (that I know of):

require 'open3'
require 'time'

def creation_time(file)
   Time.parse(Open3.popen3("mdls", 
                        "-name",
                        "kMDItemContentCreationDate", 
                        "-raw", file)[1].read)
end

Dec 16

Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

And so starts what I predict to be a few year phase out of Steve Jobs as being pseudonymous with the perceived identity of Apple, Inc. No one can do a keynote like Jobs? Get rid of the keynotes.

“You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %” My score on the American Civic Literacy Quiz. For the record, I got the following questions wrong: 4, 7, & 13.

Dec 12

You are never too mature for a little snowball fight (via reddit)

Dec 10

Mike Huckabee Pt. 2 | The Daily Show

why not ben

Ben Tucker's virtual life

Flight of the Conchords Season 2 Premier

File creation date in Ruby on Macs

Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld