AlexH

I’d like to get a nice template for placing my seeds. I think the best way would be to have a piece of plywood that has the 4/9/16 pattern drilled into it, and dowels would be put into the holes at the right depth. Then the placing of the holes would be a matter of pushing the board down on the soil, and voila, they are ready to go!

Let’s see if my ASCII art will work here:

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|     x     x     x     x      |
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|        x     x     x         |
|     x     x     x     x      |
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|        x     x     x         |
|     x     x     x     x      |
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|        x     x     x         |
|     x     x     x     x      |
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Well it sort of works, I could fit the 9/16 holes.

Dave Winer writes:

It’s valuable, it really is, I point to Wikipedia articles regularly, but always with an implicit caveat. I can’t be sure that the article I point to today, that I believe is accurate today, will be accurate tomorrow.

Ah, but you can.

Click on the history tab, then click on the most recent date. It gives you a URL of the version that is current, so if it changes in the future, you will still see the version that you were looking at today.

It even shows a set of links to navigate revisions.

For example, the current, as of May 25, Diffie Hellman key exchange.

But this is actually a problem for the Internet as a whole. For example, how do I find out what a Google search would have shown me a year ago vs today. Do they keep that kind of data?

If I could push one ‘net meme this year, I would choose this one:

‘I will purchase the $100 laptop at $300′ - PledgeBank

The project has just released its prototypes, and they look great. They run Linux, include WiFi, and can be hand cranked. The screen can operate in colour for dark conditions, or black and white for bright light conditions. There is a ton of attention being paid to this project, and I hope it can get off the ground.

The pledge is to pay $300 for the laptop, which you’ll get one, and two will be donated to children in a third world country.

digg this

I was just checking my incoming links (which doesn’t change very often ) and found Drew’s blog. I’ve updated the links on my sidebar to add him in there.

Last night’s salad:

• Spinach
• Arugula
• Chard
• Tom thumb
• Buttercrunch
• Mustard
• Parsley
• Mint
• Nasturtium
• Radish greens
• Bee balm
• Chive flowers

Now I just need to figure out a good dressing I can make from my home grown ingredients, and I’ll be set.  Maybe soybean oil, lemon balm/lemon thyme, apple cider vinegar, garlic, and sea salt.
Just doing some guesstimates, it takes about 3 spinach plants for a small salad.  Using the SFG technique, if I wanted to eat a salad each day, it would take about 19 squares to have a continuous supply.  Of course, I would have to stop planting from May 1 - August 1, so that takes out about 1/4 of the year where I could be harvesting spinach.

Oh freakin sweet!

news : vim online

[2006-05-08] After years of development this feature packed editor is waiting for you. For the impatient, go directly to the download page. For the curious, read the announcement. Happy Vimming! (Bram Moolenaar)

It sounds like there are a ton of new features and I’m probably going to spend all day setting up my environment.

Today Tracy and I harvested the first of the radishes. I planted two squares worth and we took about a third from each square. The rest were too small so I’ll hopefully pick them this week, and once the square is empty I’ll plant the beans.

I found a small green worm on one of the leaves, so I squished it. I think that was what was eating the holes in the leaves.

I also found a strange looking radish that had split open, and there was a small brown worm inside the split.  The bottom roots were gone as well.  I don’t know if it had split from overwatering, or if that worm was making itself a home.  I’m going to do some research to see if I can find what it was, and how I can avoid it in the future.  Only one was affected like that but I haven’t pulled all of them out yet.

The weather forecast is for fairly good weather during the week so I’ll probably pull the rest on Wednesday, and put some plastic on the ground to get it really heated up before the beans go in.

It’s World Asthma Day. Take a breath of pure air.

Niloufer King has a great article on rice.

How to Cook Rice Perfectly

Letting your rice rest enlarges the window of opportunity for serving perfectly cooked rice.

I really need practice with rice cooking, I usually use a rice cooker but I’m only successful with large batches. And then I end up throwing some away because I’m tired of having rice with every meal.

A friend wanted to get the audio tracks from a concert DVD, and asked me if I could do it.  I didn't know how but I was sure it is possible.  Transcode is a great utility for this.  It should go something like this:

#!/bin/bash
X=1
while [ $tracknum -le 20 ]
do
transcode -i /dev/dvd -x dvd -T 1,$tracknum,1 -b 192,0,5,1 -a 0 -y raw -m track$tracknum.mp3
tracknum=$((tracknum+1))
done 

Thanks to Jkx for the tip.