Bart Cortooms

LastHistory - Visualize your Last.fm listening history

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:06:10 GMT

LastHistory allows you to analyze music listening histories from Last.fm through an interactive visualization and to explore your own past by combining the music you listened to with your own photos and calendar entries. It is written as a desktop application for Mac OS X v10.5 or higher.

http://www.frederikseiffert.de/lasthistory/

The State of the Internet:

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:36:47 GMT

The State of the Internet:

SEC - open source and platform independent event correlation tool

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:48:24 GMT

Small Unix tool to find event correlations. It isn't doing data mining to find correlations in a data stream, but rather you write rules like "tell me if X happens within Y seconds of a Z" and it takes events on stdin and emits correlations on stdout.

http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/

Google App Engine Status Dashboard

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:13:02 GMT

http://code.google.com/status/appengine/

Post-mortem for February 24th, 2010 Google App Engine outage

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:33:09 GMT

Wish there were more postmortems like this.

https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/a7640a2743922dcf

bart edited a page in the bart/webredirects wiki

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:01:41 GMT

"Home" is at bart/webredirects/wikis/home

New browser reports over half of SSL sites may be unsafe

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:18:13 GMT

Netcraft

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Hah, creative way to push Extended Validation SSL certificates. Maybe they should just admit that certificates ain't working instead.

Comodo's new internet browser, Comodo Dragon, considers more than half of the world's valid SSL certificates to be unsafe.

Related Netcraft Service: SSL Survey

RadarVirtuel - A map of the position of every commercial flight over Europe

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:17:37 GMT

http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

Mission Bicycle Company

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:53:46 GMT

http://www.missionbicycle.com/

An Easy Way to Make a Treemap

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:17:47 GMT

http://flowingdata.com/2010/02/11/an-easy-way-to-make-a-treemap/

When to use HMAC

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:07:20 GMT

http://benlog.com/articles/2008/06/19/dont-hash-secrets/

On Amazon EC2's Underlying Architecture

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:29:51 GMT

http://openfoo.org/blog/amazon_ec2_underlying_architecture.html

Watching www.vpro.nl/... Wonder if Twitter data is being used as input for hi...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:17:22 GMT

Watching www.vpro.nl/... Wonder if Twitter data is being used as input for high frequency trading yet.

Google Email Uploader for Mac

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:37:20 GMT

The Google Email Uploader for Mac is a desktop utility for Mac OS X that uploads email archives from Apple Mail, Eudora, Thunderbird, and exported Entourage mail (along with other mbox and Maildir archives) to your Google Apps mailbox. Google Email Uploader for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and a Google Apps mail account.

http://code.google.com/p/google-email-uploader-mac/

Larch - Copies messages from one IMAP server to another

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:33:45 GMT

Larch is a tool to copy messages from one IMAP server to another quickly and safely. It’s smart enough not to copy messages that already exist on the destination and robust enough to deal with interruptions caused by flaky connections or misbehaving servers. Larch is particularly well-suited for copying email to, from, or between Gmail accounts.

http://github.com/rgrove/larch/

Twitter creates a listing of its open source projects: http://twitter.com/abo...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:43:28 GMT

Twitter creates a listing of its open source projects: http://twitter.com/about/opensource

Open Source projects by Twitter

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:42:12 GMT

http://twitter.com/about/opensource

Twitter’s Plan to Analyze 100 Billion Tweets

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:41:47 GMT

High Scalability

If Twitter is the “nervous system of the web” as some people think, then what is the brain that makes sense of all those signals (tweets) from the nervous system? That brain is the Twitter Analytics System and Kevin Weil, as Analytics Lead at Twitter, is the homunculus within in charge of figuring out what those over 100 billion tweets (approximately the number of neurons in the human...

android-wifi-tether - enables tethering via wifi and bluetooth

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:08:38 GMT

This program enables tethering (via wifi and bluetooth) for "rooted" handsets running android (such as the Android DevPhone 1). Clients (your laptop for example) can connect via wifi (ad-hoc mode) or bluetooth and get access to the internet using the 3G, 2G mobile connection or (in case you are using bluetooth) the wifi connection which is established by the handset.

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

Artists Drive, Death Valley

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:08:56 GMT

Artists Drive, Death Valley

Santa Monica Beach, Los Angeles

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:07:57 GMT

Santa Monica Beach, Los Angeles

In januari was ik voor werk in de VS, voor 2 weken. De eerste week een hoop c...

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:59:03 GMT

In januari was ik voor werk in de VS, voor 2 weken. De eerste week een hoop collega's ontmoet, 's avonds de stad (San Francisco) ingedoken, en in het weekend de toeristische trekpleisters bekeken: Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Warf, en the Museum of Modern Arts. Daarna heb ik een week op het kantoor in de VS gewerkt en het laatste weekend besloten we (ik en 2 collega's) om de steden in de regio eens te gaan ontdekken. Een beetje zoals Aziaten heel Europa hopen te leren kennen in 7 dagen. Met de auto uiteraard.

Maar eerst met het vliegtuig naar ons startpunt: Vegas. Of 'Crazy city', zoals een vrouw die daar elk weekend (soms met haar kinderen) naar toe ging de stad noemde. Om te ontspannen. Niet mijn idee van ontspannen, maar indrukwekkend was het wel. Het vliegtuig net uitgestapt is het eerste dat je op het vliegveld ziet een lange rij one-armed bandits: de slot machines.

Als je dan dichterbij de stad komt lijkt het of je een pretpark inrijdt: palmbomen langs de wegen, helder verlicht (Lampegat is er niks bij) door straatreclame, casino's en hotels. Het verschil tussen casino's en hotels is vaak niet duidelijk: bij elk hotel is de begane grond een casino. Wij sliepen in het Luxor, een gigantische piramide met een lichtbaken dat uit de punt komt en dat de piloot in elk overvliegend vliegtuig verblindt. Voor weinig geld overigens, want geld komt in Vegas wel op andere manieren binnen. Als je niet van plan bent om te gokken kun je je er tegen een laag budget een hele nacht goed vermaken.

De dag erna reden we al weer op tijd weg richting de meest indrukwekkende plek die ik ooit gezien heb: Death Valley. Rotswanden in allerlei kleuren. Enorme drooggevallen rivierbeddingen. Een bevroren ijsmeer dat geen ijs is maar zout. En muisstil.

Daarna zijn we naar Los Angeles gereden. Geen heel bijzondere stad, maar ze hebben er wel wat leuke stranden en er is geen gebrek aan dure villa's van rijke filmsterren. Op zondagavond besloten we naar het centrum te gaan, waar we uitkwamen bij een of andere tent waar de afterparty van de Grammy awards was. Waar wij overigens geen weet van hadden totdat we vroegen wat er te doen was aan een van de vele mensen die buiten stonden te wachten op de sterren die nog naar binnen moesten. Die ik geen gezien heb. Niet dat ik weet tenminste.

Ooh, is het carnaval. Ik dacht al, wat staan er veel Brabanders op de piste.

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:01:51 GMT

Ooh, is het carnaval. Ik dacht al, wat staan er veel Brabanders op de piste.

An Easy Way to Make a Treemap

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:35:53 GMT

FlowingData

Back in 1990, Ben Shneiderman, of the University of Maryland, wanted to visualize what was going on in his always-full hard drive. He wanted to know what was taking up so much space. Given the hierarchical structure of directories and files, he first tried a tree diagram. It got too big too fast to be useful though. Too many nodes. Too many branches.

The treemap was his solution. It's an...

The Anatomy of a Whale

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:26:05 GMT

The Twitter Engineering Blog

By Ed Ceaser (@asdf) and Nick Kallen (@nk)

Sometimes it's really hard to figure out what's causing problems in a web site like Twitter. But over time we have learned some techniques that help us to solve the variety of problems that occur in our complex web site.

A few weeks ago, we noticed something unusual: over 100 visitors to Twitter per second saw what is popularly known as "the fail...

RT @google: Google Apps Developer Blog, by developers for developers, now liv...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:11:34 GMT

RT @google: Google Apps Developer Blog, by developers for developers, now live: googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/... (via @googleapps)

3 months after moving in, I have a couch and a comfy chair in my apartment. D...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:29:30 GMT

3 months after moving in, I have a couch and a comfy chair in my apartment. Dining table is no longer my only option for sitting. Hooray!

Photo

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:41:13 GMT

DataViz

In Brussels, at Fosdem. It's getting bigger every year.

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:22:58 GMT

In Brussels, at Fosdem. It's getting bigger every year.

sad to hear Interlink s where I learned most of what I still use to date

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:53:24 GMT

sad to hear Interlink <http://www.il.fontys.nl> will cease to exist - it's where I learned most of what I still use to date

Back in the future (PST-9)

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:22:46 GMT

Back in the future (PST-9)

Date: Feb 2, 2010

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Date: Feb 2, 2010
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Date: Feb 2, 2010

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Date: Feb 2, 2010
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http://brizzly.com/pic/1BAY Santa Monica Beach

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:38:33 GMT

http://brizzly.com/pic/1BAY Santa Monica Beach

Ended up in downtown LA at a venue where they had some music award show going on

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:17:06 GMT

Ended up in downtown LA at a venue where they had some music award show going on

Pics of visit to Death Valley: http://picasaweb.google.com/bcortooms/DeathVal...

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:52:28 GMT

Pics of visit to Death Valley: http://picasaweb.google.com/bcortooms/DeathValley#

http://twitgoo.com/cqcxu Death Valley was amazing

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:00:02 GMT

http://twitgoo.com/cqcxu Death Valley was amazing

Date: Jan 30, 2010

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Date: Jan 30, 2010
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Landed in Vegas

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:51:58 GMT

Landed in Vegas

wondering if Jobs made the sun shine in SF. it's been raining for 2 weeks st...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:28:34 GMT

wondering if Jobs made the sun shine in SF. it's been raining for 2 weeks straight, he appears, and it's a sunny day.