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One thing I never expected when starting work on Seasonality is the shear amount of weather data that is available on the web. Sometimes it’s hard to get a handle on all the information. I have a weather database served by PostgreSQL, and that’s starting to take several GB on my server. [...]

There’s a quite interesting blog post over on Ridiculous Fish about how floats are formatted in memory and what kinds of numbers they can represent. This should be required reading for every Computer Science student. I wasn’t taught any of this at UCSB except for the mantissa/exponent way of representing a float and [...]

Some very cool events are coming up in the next several weeks that I’ll be attending. The first event is the Ohio LinuxFest two weeks from now. Registration is completely free thanks to their sponsors, so all I have to pay for is the hotel. It’s a one-day conference covering topics from [...]

A couple of weeks ago, when I first mentioned Hurricane Katrina, it was barely a category 1 storm touching the southern tip of Florida. It is amazing to me that the storm grew so much as to become a category 4/5 hurricane, and my heart goes out to all the people who were affected [...]