sustainable energy - without the hot air
the tl;dr summary - this stuff is hard. really, really hard, there are no easy answers and ones ability to make effective personal changes in their lifestyle has depressingly limited impact. ...
2011
neighborhood crime reports
i sometimes wonder if the guy that curates the crime report for the southwest journal has a little fun with the incidents that he opts for publication. these were culled from the latest southwest journal, (issue: 28-nov, 11-dec, 2011) a little bundle of local fun that magically arrives on my doorstep on the weekends. lowry hill east - nov 13, 2011 - between 10:30p and 11:30p - a 40 -year-old man said his ex-girlfriend used keys he did not give her to enter his apartment....
ease of doing business rankings - behind NZ? huh.
about a year ago we were in new zealand and we were surprised by how much emphasis they placed on environmental protections and labor management. it’s an impressively progressive country on an amazing array of topics, from civil liberties, environmentalism and nuclear non-proliferation (i suppose having U.S. atomic testing fallout impacting you will tend to color your perspective on a number of these topics.) that said, for all of their regulation they’re apparently outranking the U....
damned if you, damned if you don't
an interesting nugget dislodged from the reading queue re: the second order effects of intervening in libya. ...
perl sorting IP addresses
if you have to deal with big ass arrays of IP addresses in perl and you need to sort things. i recommend reading the following paper. ...