Forgive me, for I have sinned

Published on June 25, 2007 in Taiwan under Life

The date is June 25th, 2007, and I've sinned. Let me explain. I've been involved in technology for quite some time, and have been very anti-facebook/myspace/friendster. There has never been an urge to join, I've always thought people spend way too much time updating their profiles instead of actually writing ... Read more.

Size of Uncompressed OSM File

Published on Jan. 8, 2008 under Tech Blog

I've been playing around with OSM a little lately, and have been meaning to construct my own slippy map. At first I wanted to do it on my VPS -- but with rather limited storage, and even more limited memory, there just isn't a way. Three problems exists: the ... Read more.

Crappy Traffic Graphing

Published on Dec. 30, 2007 under Projects

Status: 10% I've heard that Sydney is one of the most livable cities in the entire world -- a statement I would generally agree with. However. whoever made this statement obviously didn't drive to work every day. I've reached the conclusion that one of the biggest (and only) ... Read more.

Alexa Site Thumbnail And Django

Published on June 6, 2007 under Notes and Tutorials

So, you've seen how to look up thumbnails via python, but wonder how to integrate this with Django? I created a sample app to demonstrate. One thing to note about this app is it is slightly more complex than just using the previously mentioned ThumbnailUtility. For starters, ... Read more.

Alexa Site Thumbnail with Python

Published on June 6, 2007 under Notes and Tutorials

For one of my sites I needed to get thumbnails, yet Alexa Site Thumbnail didn't have any code snippets for Python. Well, no they/you do. ThumbnailUtility.py import base64 import datetime import hmac import sha import sys import <span ... Read more.

Alexa Site Thumbnail with Python II

Published on June 6, 2007 under Notes and Tutorials

This is how I actually use Alexa Site Thumbnail, and since I'min a sharing mood, I'll extend the code your way. In short, this takes the url and searches in STORELOC first, then any urls not already in STORELOC are retrieved and named via a slug. You need to pass ... Read more.