Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Twitter search, Hi Victoria!

Tonight I found out you can now search for people on Twitter by name, location, possibly more. I did a search for Victoria, and found a lot of really interesting people! And, unfortunately I found out a few days late that there was a BarCamp DemoCamp in Victoria on the 3rd.

I've followed a bunch of new people on Twitter whose blogs or tweets I found interesting. I also found out about TwitterLocal... this would have been an easier way than Twitter's search, oh well.

links for 2008-04-09

• Google App Engine - Google Code
  (tags: api development programming python google hosting distributed django appengine scalability sandbox)
• Ruby’s not ready
  (tags: languages programming python rails ruby pylons)
• Apple Journal: Mac BU promises bibliography improvements to Office 2008
  I used Word 2008 to write the term paper I just finished yesterday. The citation feature was pretty good, but I don't think the formatting of the bibliography was right up to proper standards. I wasn't sure so I went with pretty much what Word generated.
  (tags: mac osx office mac-bu bibliography citation)
• Let some other process fix the error (Long)
  (tags: armstrong concurrency programming erlang actor-model errors exceptions)
• Google AppEngine - A First Look (High Scalability)
  (tags: amazon google appengine python programming scalability gql)
• Red Hat Asks Federal Court To Limit Patents On Software
  (tags: software patents redhat opensource)
• Amazon S3 – Backstory for Nerds - Part 1
  (tags: amazon aws s3 programming webservices distributed ec2 scalability)
• Parallel computing in large-scale applications
  (tags: c++ multicore parallel programming python message-passing mpi scientific-computing ieee)
• Has Google's AppEngine Annointed Python as the New Web Standard?
  (tags: appengine programming python google)
• Google's plans for App Engine
  (tags: appengine google startup programming entrepreneurship)
• The Differences Between Mercurial and Git
  (tags: distributed git mercurial hg scm)
• Oldies but goodies: an article on Io
  (tags: Io programming)
• Resolver One in One Minute
  This appeals to me greatly. I've spent a lot of time in Excel, I think spreadsheets are a woefully underappreciated programming paradigm. Resolver One combines spreadsheets with a great programming language (Python). But is it Windows-only?
  (tags: programming spreadsheet python)
• Is Google App Engine HuddleChat a Campfire Rip-Off?
  (tags: appengine google 37signals campfire huddle trust clone)
• The Thing About Git
  (tags: git scm)
• Erlang Sub-Reddit
  erlang is a functional, concurrent, fault-tolerant programming language
  (tags: programming erlang reddit)
• Amazon S3 – Backstory for Nerds – Part 2
  (tags: amazon aws s3 programming webservices distributed ec2 scalability acl)
• On Teaching Programming With Python 3.0
  (tags: python programming teaching paper computer-science)
• ridiculous_fish: Barrier
  (tags: programming locks threads threading mem)
• Anarchaia: A tumblelog by Christian Neukirchen
  (tags: blog programming daily)
• Good Math, Bad Math
  (tags: blog math daily)

Image of Letter from Obama Campaign

Photobucket: Image of Letter from Obama Campaign

Obama was sent a donation from a registered lobbyist, but it was sent back.

If actions speak louder than words, just how loud is this letter?

2008 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

The Pulitzer Board: 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners - EDITORIAL WRITING

Ouch. Sucks to be Maureen Downey, Rodger Jones and the Wisconsin State Journal Staff - they were nominated but the jurors had other ideas.