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The urge to fly is now...

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I have a growing urge to get away, get out, meet new people and generally take my mind off $WORK. Don't get me wrong, work is good, we're doing cool projects, but as a small company without VC backing or anything, it is all too often that you limited resources prevent you from doing the next ...

IP to country: ip2countryd using hostip.info data

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[lang_de]Dieser Eintrag ist nur auf Englisch verfügbar.[/lang_de] hostip.info is a free GeoIP service. Unfortunately their webservice is slow and they are in the middle of a backend change (from 256 ip_X tables to one table listing all /24 nets...). However, their information is more exact than that of countries.nerd.dk. To convert the data from hostip.info's format ...

UX UX UX (in multiple languages)

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Which OS are You? [lang_de] Hurrah. Hat irgendwie was von Horoskopen. Eigentlich teste ich nur das Polyglot-Plugin. Es funktioniert, aber der Code schreit eigentlich nach einem Rewrite... später. Augen nach oben rechts wenden, lustige kleine Flaggen sehen, ausprobieren, und hoffentlich keine Fehler finden... jetzt. ;) [/lang_de] [lang_en] Huzzah. Feels a little like horoscopes. Actually I'm just ...

Computer God, and cute too

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[lang_de]Dieser Eintrag ist nur auf Englisch verfügbar.[/lang_de] And all this just because freedb.org shut down.

Mmhh... Pi!

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Ever wanted to know the statistical distribution of digits in π? Just in case: $ wget -O - http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext93/pimil10.txt | grep -v '[A-Za-z]' | sed -e 's/[^0-9]//g; s/./\0\n/g;' | sort | grep -v "^$" | uniq -c Click here to support me being silly.