June 2009
19 posts
brandtkurowski: “Also, don’t take the intoxicated results to be acceptable just because they’re an improvement over the texting numbers. They only look better because the texting results are so horrendously bad.” — Texting While Driving: How Dangerous is it? - Car And Driver. Yup: texting while driving is so bad, it makes drunk driving look good in comparison. (And they’re not talking just...
Jun 26th
returning from a late night jaunt through the neighborhood on my new rollerblades. super fun!
Jun 26th
Ten Speed Farm: Weekly Pickup →
Rebecca @ Ten Speed Farm is doing a pretty cool thing this season.  You sign up for the mailing list, she sends out an email every Monday with the vegitables that are going to be available.  You reply to her with your order & then go pick it up on Wednesday.  No commitment, no minimums.  It’s a great system and I hope it’s sustainable. Here’s an example of what was available...
Jun 18th
Just returned from a wonderful ~9 mile paddle on the Connecticut River. Beautiful evening!
Jun 18th
Jun 17th
make that http://www.allforgood.org (.org not .com)
Jun 15th
http://allforgood.com looks very cool! kinda like what we were trying to build in ‘05 with fichebowl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rails_Day
Jun 15th
Jun 15th
Waiting for Dartmouth Commencement to begin. The crowd is in great spirits despite the rain! Congrats @annawchin!!
Jun 14th
The sun is trying VERY HARD to break through!
Jun 14th
I didn’t care enough to partake in the facebook username rush last night, so I pulled a flickr: http://www.facebook.com/btuckr
Jun 14th
Jun 13th
Waiting for the Dartmouth Medical School “Class Day” to begin.
Jun 13th
I know AppArmor is probably really cool, but damn, I thought I was going crazy when mysql couldn’t write to a new datadir it owned
Jun 13th
“Since its announcement yesterday, there’s been a lot of excited discussion...”
– Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash So spot on it’s scary!
Jun 11th
Back at work after a wonderful weekend with family in St. George, ME
Jun 10th
Google’s new Page Speed is damn impressive on first use. Quite the evolution on YSlow. http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/
Jun 5th
wishing svn 1.4 could handle an svn 1.5 repo. oh well, guess this is why svnadmin dump/load exists…
Jun 4th
“[E]very blog post will now have an author name associated with it.”
– Jesse Lee, Online Programs Director This is a great change & addresses my primary gripe with the White House blog to date.
Jun 1st