I had waaaay too much fun with this data visualization software… Sheet 1 Powered by Tableau (Note, you will need javascript enabled as there is an embedded scripty thingie. The controls aren’t ideal — mouse mode selection is on the bottom; to zoom out, use the shift key — but it excites me how little […]
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Mister Peabody, set the Wayback Machine to three years ago, pick a spot during a really long product release cycle. Partly out of boredom, but mostly to mess with development manager at the time, I had asked one of the developers to swap out the splash screen. The product logo was thus modified: Official Battle-ready!
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During last week’s ride, I hit the limits of my GPS‘ ten to eleven hours of internal battery capacity. So, with it officially being spring, when young minds turn to thoughts of riding more, it seemed to be a good time to build the Minty Boost kit I received for Christmas. The Minty Boost is
For the last month or so, I’ve been having performance problems on my web hosting provider: Process were (and still are) getting randomly killed for allegedly using “too much CPU.” Log file activity had entries like this:[Wed Dec 26 19:43:04 2007] [crit] [client 67.161.90.241] (12)Cannot allocate memory: default_handler: mmap failed: /i/wunderground_dec252007.jpg Disabling some WordPress plugins
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[This is the remaining set of mental notes on the AGU conference, mostly as a mark for me to look up more later. Because it’s been a week two weeks, including a week of doing real work to ship products (w00t!), my recollection isn’t as good as it could be.]
With my products’ release imminent, I spent last weekend coaxing Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (ECC) into action. The ECC is appealing for a few reasons: It’s someone else’s high-throughput network – product distributions, especially with demo files, are in the hundreds of megabytes. The T1 at work is 1.4Mb/s. Sharing, firewalls, and proxies reduce my
While I was driving around Tucson, I was struck by how differently the traffic lights sequenced. (Phoenix didn’t seem to have the noticeable differences.) Consider this intersection of Some Boulevard and No Way: Some Boulevard is the moderately-trafficked arterial going left-right. In this intersection, left turns have to yield to oncoming traffic. The pedestrian crosswalk
While pondering data graphs from my cycle computer, I wondered why the axis always had very high values on them. For example, on the graph to the right is from Friday’s commute. The “speed” range is -25mph to +125mph. Even more puzzling, there is a point on the graph where I am apparently going 87