I want to tell you about how three different services (along with my own PHPMyGTD application) and my phone have changed the way I handle my appointments and reminders.

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Sandy has had iCal feeds for a while, but I couldn’t use them with Google Calendar. Well, now they’ve created “private” iCal feeds. I use quotes on “private”, because it’s not really protected in any way, except that it has an obscure, randomly-generated URL. However, this is good enough for an application like Sandy.
I’m going [...]

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valentines day

Originally uploaded by omnia

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I have written before about the usefulness of command-line scripting in computational science.
Today, while looking for some information on various file test operators in bash (e.g. to check whether a file or directory exists), I found this amazing guide. As the author puts it,

This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses [...]

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Backhoes dancing to classical music, funded by the Canadian government.
Watch them here.
Sheer brilliance, people. It seems that the frame rate is at times sped up, either because the machines were too slow, or the maneuvers were too tricky to be done at speed.

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