A security guy at a campus wanted our web server log file in the CSV format. The original file has lines which look something like: machine.usg.edu: webserver.log13646,2010-11-30     11:08:32     0.0010  999.999.999.999   b7tPM1hTgGYMn90bLTM1   200   GET   /webct/urw/lc987189066271.tp1333853785371/blank.html   –    262   “Mozilla/5.0…
In the furor over a bacterium using arsenic where normally it would use phosphorus, I looked up this quote. This has no direct bearing on the discovery other than why science is important. If we look with a perceiving eye upon the world of creation, we find that all existing things may be classified as…
Funky Leaf Originally uploaded by Ezra S F A leaf sticking in a crack in the sidewalk. Bizarre for it to have happened without human assistance.
Favorite Kind of SunsetOriginally uploaded by Ezra S F Took this as I was leaving work.
Attempted to watch the Transformer’s 3 trailer, but apparently Chrome on Linux was a no-go for the JavaScript which hides the web site and displays the trailer. Fancy but broken. So I thought I would look at the HTML and get the .mov file. I found this snippet of code in the HTML quite interesting.…
WordPress has neat new functionality to notify about and easily update templates. Apparently some of mine are so old they can no longer be updated? The result of trying was not removing the “.maintenance” file resulting an inaccessible blog. Easy enough to remove it once I looked up the problem. However, annoying that I was…
This mention reminded me of a study where men experienced difficulties remembering the news when the speaker was a beautiful woman. Beautiful women should take up chess. Anna Dreber, Christer Gerdes and Patrik Gransmark wrote a Stockholm University working paper in which they found that male chess players pursue riskier strategies when they’re facing attractive…
What are the questions you would bring up to Ray?