Touching pictures taken by a graduating high-school student in Montgomery, AL. Aside from the pictures she took, the commentary shows the struggles (in more ways than one) she is going through.
Archive for June, 2009
how to be happy in business | what consumes me
June 6th, 2009
Bud Caddell (via Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_caddell/3592960452/sizes/m/)
Thanks to LifeHacker (via Kottle), Bud Caddell has shown how to be happy in business by identifying (hopefully!) the area where what you love overlaps what you know overlaps what you can get paid for. I read about this some years back as practical advice one parent gave her child, but like the simplicty (and labels — what can I say, I love labels — they order my life 
of Caddell’s venn diagram.
Essential Guide To Regular Expressions: Tools and Tutorials | Smashing Magazine
June 6th, 2009I’m always struggling with the various regular expressions, even after using them for over a decade. Maybe it’s because of all the variations (perl vs. your favorite windows-based text editor’s flavor of regexps vs. bash vs. you-name-it). Maybe it’s because I’m just plain getting old. (nah!)
Although better known for photography tips, Smashing Magazine has a nice collection of tutorials on RegExps — Essential Guide To Regular Expressions: Tools and Tutorials. Check it out.
New R script: Plot Nike+ runs
June 5th, 2009I’ve been playing around with R and Nike+ and thought I’d put the two together, so I wrote a little R script that pulls your public data from the Nike+ website and plot out the graphs. It’s a little rough around the edges (see below for a list of enhancements/fixes), but it generates plots. I like SlowGeek, but found their smoothing function a bit too “smooth” — it was shaving 1/2 mph from my run speeds. I wasn’t happy with that 
Read more to get the source code, below.
Sample: 
For an example of what it might look like, you can see my plots.
