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Settling in

Well, I’m here in San Francisco and starting to settle in nicely. Lots of social stuff going on, fun work that doesn’t feel like work, and I found a place to live really quickly and easily.

This photo’s by the lovely yarnivore who took it last weekend at a Rock Band extravaganza where we [...]

Vanuatu and OpenStreetmap

Meet Hervé Soksok, Vanuatu’s first GPS-toting, creative-commons-licensing community cartographer.

I ran into Hervé at Wan Smolbag’s computer centre a few weeks ago and we swapped email addresses. He’s been attending daily computer classes there, where he spends an hour each day learning basic computer skills and — I suspect — finds the time for [...]

Benford’s Law

I’m putting together the results of the Perl Survey, and as I sat on IRC this evening I mentioned that I was collating the data regarding years’ experience in programming.

“I bet,” said Greg McCarroll, “that about 30% of people said they have either 1 year or 10-19 years’ experience.”

I took a look at the [...]

Handy hint: use lip balm on boo-boos

(If you like, we can pretend this is a life hack, and it’ll make us both feel more hip.)

Today’s useful tip is that you can use chapstick on hangnails and other minor hurts to soften them up and help them heal. I use Burt’s Bees Beeswax Lip Balm on everything from insect bites [...]

Administrivia

A couple of points.

Those who read the RSS feed for Infotropism may have noticed that I started splicing in my del.icio.us links each day. I’ve now stopped doing this, as it annoyed even me. If you really like them, you can go subscribe specifically to the RSS feed for those links.

At the [...]