This technology + transparency concept has so much potential – www.recovery.gov has an RSS feed!
Little Osaka, Part II
I went back to Sawtelle again last night. I wanted to go alone so I could walk around at my own pace and take my time wandering around. I spent a lot of time in Tokyo Japanese Outlet, trying not to feel rude for taking photos of their merchandise. I did buy some chewing gum so I didn’t feel like a leech.
I don’t get it. Why am I compelled to keep coming back here?
This is a view of the mammoth shopping center across the street, on the east side of Sawtelle Boulevard.
Talk to the Bunny
Talk to me through the bunny.
I just got my nabaztag set up again. It is on the net and bringing weather, news, and bunny emotion feeds into our living room.
Have at it.
Send an e-mail message to quantumbunny@things.violet.net. The Violet speech synthesizer will speechify it and send the recording to the bunny, who will play it.
LDAP Date Converter
I used to always have to go look up how to convert dates to and from UNIX format. I still would, if I hadn’t made this little Excel spreadsheet that does it for me.
Whenever I need to bring a date in or out of UNIX format (especially for LDAP filters) I use this little spreadsheet. It wasn’t worth the effort of making an app, or even a web app to do. I hardly ever use it, but when I do I’m glad I have this around!
Search LA Tweets
Search “jazzercise” near:los_angeles
TWITTER PROTIP:
Use an inclusive location-based filter to search tweets. Visit search.twitter.com, enter your search term, then add “near:your_geocode” to include in that location in the filter.
Tighten it down by specifying a search radius by using the “within” parameter. E.G., “freeway near:90404 within:5km“
