Lectric Lightning

posted: 2007-06-02 09:59:48

The L.A. Times is increasingly putting some high quality video on its site. In this example, they are looking at a local shop that converts gas powered motorcycles to electric. This R1 is hot! At $15k for the conversion of a $9k bike, it seems pretty steep, but if the major manufacturers adopted this type of tech, it would probably put the whole package under $20k, which is still cheaper than most people drop on their harley, plus it's green. Well, the kawasaki version would be green.

Am I full of shit? Tell me why. [ 19 remarks ]

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HackerMojo.com is using a fluid layout based upon work by Dave Reeder. I'm trying to take CSS a little more seriously; but I'm having a hard time because of all of the bad syntax, browser compatibility hacks, and non-fluid layouts. If any of the other technology I used were like CSS, I'd have to set myself on fire and jump off of a cliff.

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Google Gears

posted: 2007-05-31 04:38:58

Google just opened an early release of Gears.
A couple of choice quotes:

The Internet is great, but you can't always be plugged into it.

--Google VP Jeff Huber

Now the Web is becoming so good that there is less and less of a reason to build software that just runs on desktop computers.

--Gartner research analyst David Smith

Don't those sound really wierd? They're very PR'ish. I feel like what ...

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He shoots, he scores!

posted: 2007-05-26 04:17:38

Adrian Holovaty just scored big.

Erlang Brains

posted: 2007-04-20 05:12:37

I think that I'm going to rewrite the mmmbrains crawler/indexer in erlang. I know everyone prefers the posts with pictures of Ben, but it's 5 am, I'm up, yahoo is down and somehow studying Erlang helps me sleep.

Biker Ben

posted: 2007-04-18 12:14:09

Ben loves almost anything his daddy loves. This includes mommy and motorcycles, but not the family pets. Why?

Puddle stomping

posted: 2007-04-18 12:02:37

'nuff said..

Singing in the rain

posted: 2007-04-18 11:59:00

Ben and Fiona love the rain.

Holy Paginator, Batman!

posted: 2007-03-28 03:08:08

Django has a really great pagination framework built in, but it does encourage you to write code like: entries = MtEntry.objects.filter( entry_status__exact = 2).order_by( '-entry_created_on' ) paginator = ObjectPaginator(entries, 5) page = int( request.GET.get('page', 1) ) object_list = paginator.get_page(page - 1) c = RequestContext(request, { '%s_list' % template_object_name: object_list, 'is_paginated': ...

MintCache for Django

posted: 2007-03-17 02:21:39

MintCache is a caching engine for django that allows you to get by with stale data while you freshen your breath, so to speak. The purpose of this caching scheme is to avoid the dog-pile effect. Dog-piling is what normally happens when your data for the cache takes more time ...