Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overheadScribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,Let the traffic policemen [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Funeral Blues — Auden
Sunday, April 29th, 2007Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overheadScribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,Let the traffic policemen [...]
Cannot restart WEBrick server
Monday, April 23rd, 2007Although this is now totally obvious, I thought Iâd point it out because it took me a minute to debug it today An error in the environment.rb file will manifest itself in the server not being able to start. If you canât get your WEBrick to restart, check the environment.rb⦠My goodness how I [...]
The revolUXion has a new home…
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007or, at least a new RSS feed home Dax has been busy! We moved over the revolUXions to a real blog engine. Unfortunately, everyone needs to update the links… RSS feed We’ll have comments enabled on each show, so any feedback would be great. Stay tuned to the blog, we have a bunch of new ideas [...]
tweet tweet tweet
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007This is how I exactly felt about twitter. I thought of it as “group instant message.” Now that I’ve left Ford, I no longer see those friends every day. I thought twitter would be a way to keep in touch with them all at the same time. As it turned out, the people I tweet [...]
A Web 2.0 Framework for Real-time Location Intelligence
Thursday, April 19th, 2007Abstract – With increasing deployments of Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, and other location-aware devices, it is now possible to capture time-varying object information. In addition, existing systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems emit ancillary object metadata (e.g., inventory levels in a warehouse). The challenge is how [...]
Kurt Vonnegut – 1922-2007
Sunday, April 15th, 2007“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
YAML SHMAML
Sunday, April 15th, 2007Spent the day working with YAML and Ruby. YAML is an object serialization strategy, and the integration with Ruby on Rails is really spectacular, it just kinda works. SOAP is to REST asYAML is to XML Below is my YAML file, isn’t that purty? Nice, readable, kind obvious what it does…. — http_server: port: 3000server: [...]
The city by the bay…
Friday, April 13th, 2007A reminder, I’m speaking at the Location Intelligence conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 18. I’m going to be talking about our GeoBoost product (whitepaper), and our new GeoTemporal analysis views. If you’re in SanFran, stop by and say hi!