Tom Morris

9 January 2008

A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.

SemanticCamp Signup Now Open!

SemanticCamp London signup is now open! It’s on the 16th and 17th of February at Imperial College in London, and it’s going to rock! Signups are already trickling in at an increasing rate, so get your place before they all go (or the exclamation mark gets it)!

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Huzzah! Decent Keychain support in AppleScript. Of course, if you want to use a non-crappy scripting language, I wrote a tutorial a while back on using the Keychain from Python and gave a few hints on how to do it in Ruby too. They Keychain is a great tool, and SSHKeychain is one of those things that makes me all happy and warm inside.

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Politweets is a Twitter aggregator that pulls in tweets about the US presidential race, although most of them seem to be from news sites like ABC and BBC etc. The popularity chart is interesting though. Good to see that the Huckabee Hype isn’t infecting Twitter. (Via Read/Write Web)

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Daily WTF has a great post about some guy who thinks the “entire industry is wrong” and that he’s the intellectual equal with Plato and Aristotle. I just hope his grasp of philosophy isn’t as bad as his understanding of web design and development since he thinks frames are the future.

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The first RSS reader I used, NetNewsWire for the Mac, is now free. Go get it.

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A Consuming Experience has three videos from BarCampLondon3 - monetizing the long tail through voluntary payments, website psychology and DIY user research. Go, watch.

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