Keith's Weblog

Logsna – a sane log output format

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:25:11 +0000

Logsna – a sane log output format. I wonder what "the best" log output format is. I'm not sure this is it but I'll revisit my logging at work. Also, I've seen JSON recommended for logging, but that seems like a bad idea for the overhead.

What is your favorite quote, passage, or idea in all of philosophy? Why? : philosophy

Mon, 21 May 2012 05:28:04 +0000

What is your favorite quote, passage, or idea in all of philosophy? Why? : philosophy.

Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil - Forbes

Sat, 19 May 2012 17:04:32 +0000

Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil - Forbes (via). Update to this. To read.

Ron Paul To Headline Texas GOP Convention

Fri, 18 May 2012 23:57:52 +0000

Ron Paul U.S.A.: Ron Paul To Headline Texas GOP Convention (via). Sweet! I'll be there.

Daring Fireball: Twitter Is Tracking You on the Web

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:09:17 +0000

Daring Fireball: Twitter Is Tracking You on the Web. Hmm, looks like I'll probably make Safari my Facebook and Twitter browser. (Primary browser is Chrome fyi)

How JPM's "Hedge" Blew Up In One Easy Chart | ZeroHedge

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:03:13 +0000

How JPM's "Hedge" Blew Up In One Easy Chart | ZeroHedge. I have NO idea what most of this means.

Spy Drone Almost Causes Mid Air Collision With Jet Over Denver

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:08:36 +0000

Spy Drone Almost Causes Mid Air Collision With Jet Over Denver Alex Jones':

A mystery object, thought to be a military or law enforcement drone, flying in controlled airspace over Denver almost caused a catastrophic mid air crash with a commercial jet Monday.

Watch our own expanding surveillance machine causes a plane crash and kills more Americans than terrorists have since 9/11.

Obama - The Vetting

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:05:41 +0000

The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii' (via):

Note from Senior Management:

Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.

Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him.

It is for that reason that we launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)--not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences.

It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below--one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review.

It is evidence--not of the President's foreign origin, but that Barack Obama's public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.

That's a charitable way to put it.

Edit: Obama's literary agent says he was 'born in Kenya'. How did the mainstream media miss this? – Telegraph Blogs.

Arty - Open Space

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:03:38 +0000

Arty - Open Space. New hotness from Arty.

Jython 2.7 alpha1 released | Hacker News

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:34:06 +0000

Jython 2.7 alpha1 released | Hacker News. Neat that Jython continues development. I know that JRuby has done a lot of work to make Ruby perform well on the JVM. I wish the Jython and JRuby folks would collaborate.

Ars Technica: Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:31:43 +0000

Ars Technica: Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (via). Interesting comments at HN too.

Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook’s Saverin’s Tax ‘Scheme’ - ABC News

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:46:08 +0000

Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook’s Saverin’s Tax ‘Scheme’ (via). One of the things about living in a free country is that you should be free to leave. This act of tyranny by Schumer infuriates me. He wants anyone who was ever a US citizen to be liable for the country's tax burden for the rest of their lives even if they renounce their citizenship.

At a news conference this morning, Sens. Schumer and Bob Casey, D-Pa., will unveil the “Ex-PATRIOT” – “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy” – Act to respond directly to Saverin’s move, which they dub a “scheme” that would “help him duck up to $67 million in taxes.”

The senators will call Saverin’s move an “outrage” and will outline their plan to re-impose taxes on expatriates like Saverin even after they flee the United States and take up residence in a foreign country. Their proposal would also impose a mandatory 30 percent tax on the capital gains of anybody who renounces their U.S. citizenship.

The plan would bar individuals like Saverin from ever reentering the United States again.

“Eduardo recently found it more practical to become a resident of Singapore since he plans to live there for an indefinite period of time,” Tom Goodman, Saverin’s spokesman, told Bloomberg News in an email.

Welcome to the Hotel America... Their plan is an "outrage". I've covered a few times the increasing number of Americans who are renouncing their citizenship.

If Men Were Angels: The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:36:43 +0000

If Men Were Angels: The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government (via). With a quote from Robert LeFevre via HXn on Reddit:

If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one.

NIH Study: Coffee Really Does Make You Live Longer, After All

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:51:07 +0000

NIH Study: Coffee Really Does Make You Live Longer, After All (via).

Reality Check: Obama Executive Order Cracks Down On Rights of Americans Over Yemen

Thu, 17 May 2012 05:57:55 +0000

Reality Check: Obama Executive Order Cracks Down On Rights of Americans Over Yemen.

Zero Hedge on Greece and the failure of the Euro

Thu, 17 May 2012 04:54:03 +0000

ZeroHedge: A Crazy Idea That Might Just Work: Greece's New Currency, The U.S. Dollar:

If you eliminate the market's ability to price risk and credit, the market breaks down. That is the eurozone in a nutshell.

Ward Cunningham on Perl and open source

Thu, 17 May 2012 04:43:48 +0000

Ward Cunningham on Perl and open source:

That's when I picked up Perl. And it shocked me, just how well it worked for finding and plundering files because it had those reg exes built in and stuff like that. And it was so fast. It was fast to compile, it was fast to develop, it was fast to run. I could not believe it was so fast. And I know people like to complain about it, but I also thought it showed a tremendous amount of insight. It was insight, and I looked at it and I said, "Who would have thought of making a language like that?" That's when I realized that open source was here to stay. There is no commercial endeavor that ever would have invented Perl.

Here's another interview with Ward Cunningham I've been intending to read.

Flotr2 - Graphs and Charts for Canvas in JavaScript

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:21:23 +0000

flotr2 - Graphs and Charts for Canvas in JavaScript (via).

Ars Technica: Say hello to the real real-time Web

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:56:47 +0000

Ars Technica: Say hello to the real real-time Web (via). Mentions Firebase and Meteor. To read.

Pretty RFC

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:45:20 +0000

Pretty RFC (via). Doesn't have a lot of RFCs pretty-fied

To boldly Go where Node man has gone before

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:33:20 +0000

To boldly Go where Node man has gone before (via). So does Go's net/http module really provide basically exactly the same programming model as Node? If so, why use Node?

One thing the author didn't mention is that Go will use multiple cores in this example, whereas Node is single-threaded. Right?

How we use Backbone.js to build Codiqa – Part 1: API

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:25:00 +0000

How we use Backbone.js to build Codiqa – Part 1: API (via). To read the next time I mess with Backbone.

CodeMirror - In-browser code editor

Wed, 16 May 2012 17:04:34 +0000

CodeMirror (via). In-browser code editor.