"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
-- Henry David Thoreau
-- Henry David Thoreau
- SimplePie: Super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom feed parsing in PHP.
- SimplePie is just that - simple. It's the best library I've used for interacting with RSS Feeds. I would highly recommend it.
- added 07/01/2008. tagged as rss, php, programming.
- A List Apart: Articles: The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome
- Anyone who designed a couple websites for a client will have probably come across this before.
- added 05/22/2008. tagged as web, design.
- Google Toolbox for Mac
- A library of objective-c components for programming on Mac.
- added 05/22/2008. tagged as programming, google, apple.
- Budget Traveller's Guide to Sleeping in Airports
- The fact that this website exists makes my day.
- added 05/16/2008. tagged as travel, airplane, airport.
- Subtraction: Keynote for Print
- Khoi Vinh demonstrates some beautiful layout skills as usual, but surprisingly with Keynote.
- added 05/11/2008. tagged as web, design, layout, keynote.
- On Teaching
- Today I stumbled across a passage in Calvin Seervald's Rainbows for the Fallen World (amazon) that I hadn't noticed before. The premise of his argument is that the best, most memorable teachers were the most eccentric. They impacted their students lives an left and indelible mark. "... there is no higher calling than being a good teacher. The only rival teachers have for shaping the consciousness of the next generation is the mass media, and the secular mass media is a formidable adversary ⇒ read more
- added 05/08/2008. tagged as teaching, aesthetics.
- Free Mathematics Textbooks
- A great list of free mathematics textbooks. Almost all of them are available in downloadable form.
- added 05/05/2008. tagged as mathematics, reference.
- Python Quick References
- Richard Gruet has some of the best Python Quick References I've seen. Very clear, but also exhaustive. If you want to have just one document for your Python skills, try it.
- added 05/05/2008. tagged as programming, python, documentation.
- GolfScript
- GolfScript is a language that enables you to right very short scripts to solve CodeGolf-type programs. It is a little hard to read though.
- added 05/05/2008. tagged as programming, golf.
- vixy.net
- A conversion service that takes any YouTube movie and makes an mp3 from it. Very cool
- added 04/24/2008. tagged as music, mp3, youtube.
- Quizlet
- Over the past year or two I've started using a service called Quizlet to help memorize vocabulary. My experience with it has been amazing. Sometimes you need to learn vocabulary for retention and sometimes you need to learn a lot for a particular quiz / exam. No doubt the best way to achieve the former is repeated use in conversation, but sometimes as a student you need to inject a bunch of terms and definitions into your brain -- really quickly. Quizlet makes this necessary part of the student- ⇒ read more
- added 04/22/2008. tagged as hungarian,, languages,, learning.
- Map of Middle Earth
- Want to see a huge, great map of Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings? (credit to Tim Bray at ongoing for the link)
- added 03/24/2008. tagged as tolkien, maps, middle-earth, lotr.
- NoFlow.nl
- site of a guy i met while we were in the north of italy. unfortunately, i don't understand many words of dutch (maybe thank you... you're welcome is a stretch).
- added 03/24/2008. tagged as italy, travel, random.
- Rome, take 2
Our second and third days in Rome have been pretty eventful, we've seen tons and are now all about relaxing and chilling out for a while. Hopefully Florence will be conducive to that.
Sunday
We started the day by taking part in the Rome marathon. What do you know, they're running a marathon the only Sunday we're here. The crowds were crazy, but they seemed to keep clear of the museums and sights -- I guess they had other things to do.
On Sunday, we went around the Roman Forum (the ruins of v ⇒ read more - added 03/18/2008. tagged as travel, italy, rome, art.
- Rome, take 1
We just arrived in Rome. We're staying at a great hostel, good location, and the prices aren't too bad. So far we've just been chilling out and having a good time. We've spent some time today in the beautiful Villa Borghese park. Tomorrow we're going to go to the museum in the park. Apparently years (and I means hundreds) ago it was owned the family Borghese. It's a beautiful plot of land.
Other plans here include Vatican City and the Capitoline Museums. And of course the colleseum and pantheo ⇒ read more - added 03/15/2008. tagged as travel, rome.
- Start Here Notebooks
- I ran across these very cool notebooks today. Might have to get one when I run out of Moleskines and Field Notes.
- added 03/13/2008. tagged as notebooks, paper.
- Top Universities
- A world-wide ranking of universities. Pretty helpful for getting a general idea what's out there on the global scene
- added 02/14/2008. tagged as education, university, academics.
- Eger, Hungary
- Last Saturday I travelled to Eger (where is it?). It is a beautiful town in Bükk Hills found in the northern uplands region of Hungary. Eger is well known for several things. Egri Bikavér (Eger's Bulls blood), as it's called, is one of Hungary's greatest wines and is produced in the area. Also, Eger was the scene of a strategic victory for the Hungarians against the Ottoman Turks in the 16th century. The city has many winding, cobble-stone streets and is certainly picturesque. One of the main ⇒ read more
- added 02/14/2008. tagged as travel, hungary, eger, history.
- Churches and the Jewish Quarter
So, I've been thinking about places where I want to go in Europe. I really dislike the notion of tourism. Sure, I want to see beautiful things and great places, but I think that in the end this is empty. I am more interested in history and at the moment I have an insatiable desire to go and visit churches. One of the most wonderful things I've found in Budapest is the ruins of 13th and 14th century churches on Margaret Island, in the middle of the Danube. The island has a storied past. Initially ⇒ read more - added 02/10/2008. tagged as travel, jewish, churches, synagogues, budapest.
- 22 Forint
One of the cheapest things that I can find to eat here in Budapest, that is reasonably nutritious, is the good ol' roll. These wonderful little morsels of food can be combined with cheese, liver patee, salami, jam, nutella, peanut butter -- whatever takes you fancy -- and can be had for only 22 forint a piece (roughly 13 cents each). It's quite a steal.
the 22 forint roll
⇒ read more - added 02/08/2008. tagged as budapest, food.