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The further you travel…

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! … the more Melbourne trams you find. Or something.

Trolleypup took me for a tour of San Francisco’s historic trolley collection, including this poor old girl — a Melbourne W2 class tram, like the ones I used [...]

Wiki Wednesday: Yoz Grahame on “Folk Logic”

[ Not quite live-blogged from Wiki Wednesday at Citizen Space; I took notes live, then kind of cleaned them up. ]

Yoz Grahame is apparently my long-lost twin, at least judging by the violence of my nodding all through his talk.

He launched his talk on “Folk Logic” — how people learn to [...]

In which Infotropism becomes a travel log

I’m in San Francisco, playing tourist. Expect more photos and travel diary interspersed with the usual stuff over the next few weeks.

The above is one of the murals on the wall of Clarion Alley in the Mission District. You can see a representation of the alleyway itself in the human figure in [...]

Technorati and Perl

Over at use.perl, Schwern’s been talking about Perl blogs and their visibility.

There are hundreds(?) of journals over on use.perl, but if you google for Perl blogs you won’t find any of them easily. In fact, you won’t find much of anything at all. Meanwhile, googling for Ruby blogs will give you an [...]

Gmail tip: the “unsubscribed” tag

I get a lot of acquaintance spam. Companies I once dealt with keep sending me stuff I don’t want. Websites where I signed up for an account years ago keep telling me stuff I don’t care about. There are people in Ottawa, Canada, who still seem to think I want to [...]

The Password Solution

For many years now I’ve been using STRIP, the Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords, on my Palm Pilot to store passwords for websites and other important information like bank account numbers.

The time has come for a change, mostly because I want to minimise the number of devices I carry around. This is [...]