http://blog.inquirylabs.com Politics, Programming and Possibilities Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:44:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jonathan Berger made a time zone conversion website in a weekend.  It looks and works great: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ Posted via email from Duane's Quick Posts http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2010/02/18/nice-time-zone-converter/ If you are looking for a job, I want to talk to you.  Right here, on this blog.In an article at The Atlantic, Don Peck makes the statistics-laden observation:Even if the economy were to immediately begin producing 600,000 jobs a month—more than double the pace of the mid-to-late 1990s, when job growth ... http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2010/02/15/help-build-the-economy-qualify-yourself-for-a-career-in-an-information-technology/ After hearing about it on ycombinator, I switched my browser's default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo a couple of days ago and I've been quite impressed so far.  I like that it puts the definition of my query front and center, if it's available (Wikipedia is usually the source of the definition).I ... http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2010/02/08/im-liking-the-duckduckgo-search-engine/ I have Ruby 1.9 running on Leopard and recently tried to get WxRuby running.  Unfortunately, it was giving me the following error:irb -r wx/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-universal-darwin-9/lib/wxruby2.bundle: [BUG] unknown type 0x22 (0xc given)ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-darwin9]It turns out that I had installed using "sudo gem install wxruby" when I should have ... http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2010/02/02/getting-wxruby-to-work-on-mac-os-x/ I've been playing with Google Wave recently and enjoying the challenge of making a robot for the platform.  My challenge is to create a robot that looks for "Q:" and "A:" markup and submits questions and answers to a flash card service such as FlashCardDB.com so that my Inuversity study group can ... http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2010/01/18/using-rave-ruby-google-wave/ The word "discipline" connotes both external discipline ("That child is misbehaving---he needs to be disciplined") as well as internal discipline ("He is a disciplined learner.").  But I don't think these two meanings have any relationship with one another---children do not improve the executive function of their minds via external discipline. ... http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2010/01/10/discipline/ It's old news now, but it was so fun to be with my family and see the BYU cougars win last November! Posted via email from Duane's Quick Posts http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2010/01/06/forgot-to-mention-the-cougars-game/ This is a really neat article about the transition science is taking right now as it reframes the "placebo effect" and its role in health and the search for improvements to the body's natural (but limited) healing system:Benedetti often uses the phrase "placebo response" instead of placebo effect. By definition, inert pills ... http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2010/01/05/reframing-the-placebo-effect-its-part-of-the-bodys-healing-system/ Posted via email from Duane's Quick Posts http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2009/12/20/love-is-when-the-objective-of-the-species-overcomes-the-objective-of-the-specimen/ Log files were invented long before the JSON data exchange format existed.  In fact, they bring a sort of crisp 1970s feel whenever I look at them... text files streaming across a terminal screen.  It's almost like the Matrix---anyone who sees text files streaming across a terminal instantly believes we ... http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2009/12/16/why-not-write-log-files-in-json-format/