http://adamstiles.com Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:01:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Pasadena Marathon posted its course map today. After running the Long Beach, Big Sur and Los Angeles marathons, there is something really cool about running a course that is never more than 5 or 6 miles away from my house. http://adamstiles.com/2008/06/2008-pasadena-marathon-course-posted/ I'm a composting geek. We compost all of our non-meat table scraps, coffee grounds, and some yard waste and then dig it into our garden soil each year as a natural fertilizer. It's always fun to see what "volunteers" pop up from that compost. After Halloween we composted our jack-o-lanterns, ... http://adamstiles.com/2008/06/volunteer-pumpkin/ Just upgraded to Firefox 3.0 beta 5... do you think I have enough back/forward buttons? Revert! http://adamstiles.com/2008/04/triple-buttons-with-firefox-30-beta-5/ I've been noodling on this feature for a while -- how can I find "more links like this one" in LinkRiver. Putting on my machine learning hat, I contemplated link-to-link co-visitation schemes, semantic indexing, various clustering algorithms... but all approaches were too data-heavy, at least for now. There had to ... http://adamstiles.com/2008/04/find-similar-links-on-linkriver/ All lifestream and link-sharing aggregators use an RSS/ATOM parser to help power their service. I built LinkRiver using Ruby on Rails and would have preferred to use a parser built in Ruby. However, Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser is rock-solid and very well tested, so I use UFP for feed parsing. ... http://adamstiles.com/2008/03/what-powers-the-aggregators/ One feature I've missed since abandoning NetCaptor for Firefox a few years ago was the ability to open new tabs next to the current tab instead of at the end of my tab stack. I spent an hour white-boarding this with Firefox dev Ben Goodger, and I gave up trying ... http://adamstiles.com/2008/03/favorite-firefox-extension-tabs-open-relative/ This happens to me all the time. I'm in super-productive mode and I run across an article or blog post that is interesting but entirely outside the context of what I'm doing. I need to stay on task - no tangents allowed. I've tried a few things... a 'To Read' ... http://adamstiles.com/2008/03/save-links-for-later-on-linkriver/ Google Reader creator Chris Wetherell is writing a great series on the birth of Google Reader. In the latest, Chris mentions LinkRiver and others when he talks about "services aggregating shared items". Gotta say I'm honored. That's kind of like UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland mentioning me, a church-league pee-wee ... http://adamstiles.com/2008/03/nice-to-be-noticed/ I saw this on the wall at Claire's preschool today. They had asked the kids to name things that are big - elephant, train (2x), giant, big big truck, and t-rex all made the list. What comes to Claire's mind when you ask her to name something big? Dad. I ... http://adamstiles.com/2008/03/elephants-t-rexes-giants-and-dad/ I wear flip flops 365 days a year and my Reefs need replacing after 18 months of near-constant use. I ordered some Tevas from Zappos.com yesterday at 2 PM. I paid for two day shipping, but because I missed the "1 PM ship the same day cutoff", I didn't expect ... http://adamstiles.com/2008/03/zapposcom-click-to-foot-in-20-hours/