My hosting company, Hostonce.com, deleted the mysql database containing the content this blog contained for one year. When I found out this occurred, I saved from Google’s cache all the category index pages from the past year. Your challenge: write a script that will extract from these HTML pages my old posts, and help me […]
Bill Clinton
I thought Bill Clinton’s speech at yesterday’s Campus Progress conference was the best I’ve ever seen him give. They’ve posted the audio (mp3) and video here. —–
Purple Line
Ok, I should have blogged this map a long time ago. The Sierra Club advocates construction of a new Metro line to ease traffic and slow sprawl. See their website for more information. —–
See 9:30 F Street
Nighclub 9:30 is holding a free screening of “930 F Street,â€? a documentary about the club’s early history, this Friday at 9 p.m.: “Back by popular demand! An encore presentation of 930 F STREET, The 9:30 Club Documentary Come relive the last 25 years! Special retrospective DJ set. First 500 people get a FREE limited […]
Unbuckled is Tonight!
DCist’s first concert, Unbuckled, is tonight at the Black Cat. —–
Technorati, Live 8 Team Up
The folks at the blog search engine Technorati have teamed up with the organizers of the Live8 concerts to create an “Blog Centralâ€? where they’ll be aggregating blog posts about the concerts. I’m considering going to the Live8 Philly concert, but a friend of mine is in town that weekend so I am not sure […]
Data Mining: So Hot Right Now
> WaPo: “Pentagon Creating Student Database“ > NYTimes: “Age 16 to 25? The Pentagon Has Your Number, and More“ From the NYTimes story: The Defense Department and a private contractor have been building an extensive database of 30 million 16-to-25-year-olds, combining names with Social Security numbers, grade-point averages, e-mail addresses and phone numbers. The department […]