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Chef, cookbook versioning and the development cycle

The problem A common development paradigm is as follows : Joe developer commits code into a feature branch Joe developer deploys that code on his own machine to see if it works Joe developer either continues committing and deploying or

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Field Day 2011

Come out Saturday to Treasure Island to check out my Amateur Radio club participating in Field Day. Field Day is a yearly event where ham radio users around north america compete to establish as many connections with other hams around

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Cool stuff at Maker Faire 2011

Here’s some cool stuff that I saw at the Maker Faire today : Forbidden Island : New (2010) game by Matt Leacock The Atari 800 : There was one in a booth at the faire and it reminded me that

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Leonard Ghostal

You got three seconds to get outta here before I break out the atomic elbow, brotha! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chwmQKADOrI Shut your pie hole, Blip! Why, twenty years ago I woulda put your head in a half nelson, twisted it around, saying each

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Found it!

Yesterday morning while riding through the Posey Tube from Alameda to Oakland, I rode over about 4 botts’ dots and the vibrations somehow detached my Givi V46 motorcycle luggage case from my motorcycle. I reached back and it was gone.

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Mom

I guess it makes sense that my mom would know me this well but it’s still surprising. Sends me a present which I get to pick up from a business by giving them my name so I feel like I’m

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2001 Brainstorm on DJ Name

Just found a paper with the brainstorming session Kris and I had when coming up with my DJ name. Here are the entries, some are from me and some are from her : Target Practice Vox (Fox? Box?) Your Hero

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Honeymoon

Here’s our path. I’ll update now and again

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Demian Bulwa AKA Columbo

As some of you may know, Zembla and I cite Demian Bulwa, staff writer at the Chron, as being one of the best examples of the miserable state of affairs over at the Chron. You can read about Bulwa’s excellent

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We’re just looking at this Blippy snafu all wrong

Today Philip Kaplan, co-founder of the website Blippy responded to news that Blippy had revealed users’ credit card numbers online, which google crawled, indexed and shared with the internets. In this blog post, by Kaplan, we get some real gems.

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