Githib is zingfast after moving off virtualisation. Nothing like running close to metal but glad I’m not managing the servers.

PostgreSQL 8.4.1 and PostGIS 1.4.0-5 for Mac available on http://www.kyngchaos.com niceee (via @jatorre)

Documentary series on protected areas by pbs: http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/

RE: Rubyforge+Downage. You can use gem install —source http://gems.tron.name/gems.rubyforge.org/ [gemname] instead (via @standoutdavid)

listening to The Strokes. retro^2

WolframAlpha *really* needs an API

Heroku’s HTTP caching is very nice to have in there for free.

Credit cards integrated. Boom!

updated infovizz about the Evolution of the size of the ozone hole http://bit.ly/2JtSOs (via @Saleiva) @datastore

Good chats and food with @louislucid followed by a 3hr ride this morning. Can’t walk. Or sit.

Things that get made at lunchtime: http://www.working-days-left.com/

Quite pleased with http://www.working-days-left.com/. The new charting really helps draw out the underlying pattern.

and with one simple ActiveSupport::JSON.decode, the json was decoded.

aside from a few functionality quirks, the IUCN redlist site is pretty good! http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/list

First play with Tokyo Tyrant and MongoDB. This stuff is amazing. So much fun. Memcache on steroids :)