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this blog is girtby net posted 18 september 2009 categories meta tags 2 comments last post on the 18th of september 2004 i unveiled the first post on girtby net and today exactly 5 years later i m posting the last read more posted 24 august 2009 categories nerd factor x tags twitter archive backup 3 comments archiving tweets if you ve run damon cortesi s handy curl command to download all or the last 3200 tweets from your twitter account you ll have a directory full of files with names like user_timeline xml count 100 page 1 not only that but they include a large amount of redundant profile stuff in the user element and not only that but twitter sometimes returns a twitter is over capacity page instead of your tweets what we want to do is a detect any files which don t contain tweets b remove the redundant user profile and c combine the results into a single file well friends here is a shell script to do exactly that you ll need zsh and xsltproc both of which are standard on macos x and most sane linuxen zsh is needed to sort the input files in numeric as opposed to lexicographic order if you know of a way to do this in bash let me know output is on stdout so just redirect to your filename of choice tweetcombine user_timeline xml count 100 page tweet_archive xml read more posted 04 august 2009 categories nerd factor x meta tags wordpress hosting amazon s3 google app engine 2 comments sleeping bloggy it should be apparent to prettymuch anyone who reads this blog that i have lost the impetus to publish regularly although i still have many things to say to the internet it seems to be getting harder and harder to find the time to put these things in a blog form that i m happy with but i m also not happy with the concept of just abandoning the blog as so many others seem to do i like the idea of putting it into hibernation where it still can be linked to and indexed in search engines but just not active so i ve been working out how to do that it s not as easy as i expected and yes worth blogging about read more posted 11 july 2009 categories cultcha provocation tags music emusic 3 comments bye bye emusic well it was good while it lasted but i ve just downloaded my last album from emusic read more posted 19 june 2009 categories nerd factor x provocation tags iphone tethering at t optus 2 comments at the end of one s tether many carriers most notably at t but also others such as optus are getting a lot of bad press for charging their subscribers extra for tethering their iphones to their laptops read more posted 13 june 2009 categories nerd factor x provocation tags c monty hall wager puzzle 4 comments easiest 100 i ll ever make recently before boarding a flight up to hamilton island for a work junket conference i purchased a puzzle book on the flight i shared the puzzles amongst colleagues and fun was had one particularly tricky puzzle confounded us all although i recognised it as a variant of the monty hall problem alarm bells should be going off at this point for those who have debated the subject in the past anyway one colleague didn t believe that the answer in the back of the book was correct and he offered to bet that by running a computer simulation he could prove the book and me wrong i m not a betting person but for some reason possibly euphoria at the prospect of the upcoming partying seminars i immediately accepted his bet wagering 100 what follows is my attempt to win that bet read more posted 12 may 2009 categories meta personal tags hardware ikea garage furniture 1 comments i fought the gorm there s a kind of internally generated tension that builds up when you haven t blogged for a while it s not as bad as that other kind of tension which builds up over time but it s still there in the back of your mind and after a while you need to do something anything to release the tension read more posted 23 march 2009 categories linkpimpin or something tags denon headphone ultimate ears 2 comments headphone update so you might remember reading the previous article about headphones at the time you might have wondered to yourself whether i could get any more crazy ass obsessed and drop even more ridiculous quantities of cash on these things if you have i m happy to say yes yes i can the two headphones described below are about as much as i can imagine spending on what are basically little speakers that you strap to your head so this article isn t so much a review as a freakshow check out the guy with the weird obsession and the lack of self restraint read more posted 25 february 2009 categories verisimilitude or something tags media watch salyut 7 0 comments precisely wrong dan reminds me of a story i heard on an ancient media watch episode it s stuart littlemore era media watch and is sadly not in the otherwise extensive abc online archives hence you ll have to rely on my somewhat hazy recollection don t worry though i may have forgotten some of the details but i remember the punchline read more posted 24 february 2009 categories nerd factor x meta tags wordpress bzr vcs 2 comments staging wordpress with bazaar version control systems i ve had a few but then again too few to mention keen observers will have noted that i have tended to blog each time i try out a new version control system and this really isn t an exception except that well i m not just trying it out i actually use bazaar daily at work so and this is like after hours practice anyway i wanted to share this because i ve found that maintaining a staging and production installation of wordpress complete with custom modifications and a collection of plugins is a problem ideally solved by a distributed source control plus i really like bazaar and wanted to show how easy it can be read more before archives 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 leveraged synergy hello i m alastair rankine i once had a blog and you ve found it would you like to know more from time to time i made offerings to the internet would you like some blogroll bjkeefe 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