21Nov/050
Google Calculator Command Line
I have been contemplating coding up a little script that scrapes Google to write a command line to the Google calculator, seems I was beaten to it by John Bokma who wrote a nice Perl based Google calculator interface
% gc 50 usd in gbp
50 U.S. dollars = 29.105303 British pounds
About R.I. Pienaar
Systems Administrator, Consultant, Linux Guy, Automator, Ruby CoderLinks
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- Dante's Ingerno is a fun game
- DC visit done. Puppetmaster now has 4GB ram. What a PITA. Time to have good look at masterless operation
- Nice. Some aws ip trying to abuse my dev asterisk machine. Don't see many spammers/scammers using ec2 yet but clearly just a matter of time
- Sent a bug report about broken ruby stomp gem in 1.1.4, hopefully this mail does not fall on deaf ears like previous ones :( #activemq
- Damn you apple for inviting me to reserve an iPad when I do not live in the states and so cannot.
- Blog Post: New release of my Puppet Concat tool with 0.24.8+ support http://bit.ly/aA9RYh #puppet
- French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD http://bit.ly/9r2307
- It's ironic how you cannot send email with google charts api images to gmail users and expect it to work. way to go.
- Google charting API really is very sexy
- High Scalability: Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra at Digg http://bit.ly/9Kli5f
Reading
Planned books:
- The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain by Daniel Gardner
- Relentless by Dean Koontz
- Mind Over Ship by David Marusek
- The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois
- The New Space Opera 2 by Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan
Current books:
-
Ariel: A Book of the Change by Steven R. Boyett
Recent books:
- Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to Get the Most Out of the Latest Vim Editor by Kim Schulz
- Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design by Diomidis Spinellis , Georgios Gousios
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