Peter Scott's Blog http://www.peterscott.com/MT/ From an Island in the Pacific... en Copyright 2010 Wed, 12 May 2010 13:01:56 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Watch this space... I will soon be launching an entirely new business dedicated to personal and executive coaching. More to come!

]]> http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2010/05/watch_this_space.html http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2010/05/watch_this_space.html Coaching Wed, 12 May 2010 13:01:56 -0800 Unfortunate truncation My wife and I borrow a lot of books from the library. Up to a dozen a week. So we want to avoid fines. Fortunately, our library account is online and readily hacked through Perl's WWW::Mechanize module, so we both have cron jobs that inform us when any book is imminently due.

It seems that the library catalog truncates its book titles... sometimes in unfortunate places. Grace just received a message that said "Fast & flexible ways to personalize your ho is due on 08-25-07"

Oops.

]]> http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2007/08/unfortunate_truncation.html http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2007/08/unfortunate_truncation.html Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:00:09 -0800 Where have the 24-hour news channels gone? No reply yet to the letter below I sent on December 27.

Jonathan Klein
President, CNN/US
1 CNN Center
Atlanta, GA 30303

Dear Sir,

I’ve been watching CNN for many years, but not lately. I want you to return to your former function of providing news. I used to be a huge devotee of Headline News, but now what that channel carries is definitely not headlines and arguably not news. Between 5pm and 10pm Pacific on Wednesday December 27, for instance, a typical night, Nancy Grace and Glenn Beck were repeated twice and Showbiz Tonight once. Meanwhile CNN had Larry King repeated twice, two Anderson Cooper shows, and Paula Zahn.

]]> http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2007/02/where_have_the_24hour_news_cha.html http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2007/02/where_have_the_24hour_news_cha.html Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:30:47 -0800 Book Review: "Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook" I have reviewed "Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook"
by Ian Langworth and chromatic, at
http://www.psdt.com/publications/psdt_articles/Perl%20Testing.html.

]]> http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2006/11/book_review_perl_testing_a_dev.html http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2006/11/book_review_perl_testing_a_dev.html Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:22:05 -0800 The Heinlein Centennial I am on the executive committee of the Heinlein Centennial (http://www.heinleincentennial.com/). We're getting ready for a great event; go read about it.

]]> http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2006/10/the_heinlein_centennial.html http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2006/10/the_heinlein_centennial.html Heinlein Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:15:59 -0800 The blogging continues... Finally got a decent blog system up here: SixApart's MovableType.

]]> http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2006/10/the_blogging_continues.html http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2006/10/the_blogging_continues.html Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:54:21 -0800 Pro Perl I have (finally!) reviewed "Pro Perl", at http://www.psdt.com/publications/psdt_articles/ProPerl.html .

]]> http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2006/05/pro_perl.html http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2006/05/pro_perl.html Perl Thu, 11 May 2006 20:05:50 -0800 Pro Perl Debugging I have reviewed the book Pro Perl Debugging, by Richard Floey and Andy Lester, at http://www.psdt.com/publications/psdt_articles/pro_perl_debugging.html.

]]> http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2005/09/pro_perl_debugging.html http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2005/09/pro_perl_debugging.html Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:07:53 -0800 The New Generation Newsflash for those studying American generational structures: Statisticians have just identified an important new demographic group. Comprised of those people born between 1890 and 2005, this group contains over 99.9% of all Americans (subject to rounding error).

This group also includes 99.9% of all registered voters and represents the vast majority of the purchasing power in America today. Marketers and advertisers are urged to study this important group, dubbed "The People Generation". Some allege that by asking The People you can find out what The People think and want.

]]> http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2005/09/the_new_generation.html http://www.peterscott.com/MT/2005/09/the_new_generation.html Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:09:42 -0800