Month: January 2010

A Post From My Blackberry

I hope this works the way I think it should. I have never posted anything from my Blackberry using the WordPress web form interface. It is time consuming to type using the BB keyboard but it does allow me to post at times and in places that were not viable before now. This post is going to be short so that if it doesn’t work, I haven’t lost much.

Quick update: I was able to save a draft of this post but I couldn’t figure out how to publish it without using a “real” browser. Still useful. And maybe I’ll figure out how to publish from the BB with a little more effort.

Happy (belated) New Year!

So, here’s my first post of 2010. A new decade dawns. What will it bring? I hope a renewed commitment to blogging. I guess that’s a bit optimistic given my track record to date and considering it’s January 12th and I’m only now writing my first post of the year.

I’ve been working on a Ruby project the past week or so. It is basically a script to scrape data from pre-formatted text on a web page, cache it to a local database, then use it to generate animated plots to visualize how it changes over time. It sounds kind of pedestrian but is actually quite fun and is giving me an opportunity to build my Ruby skills on a task that I more or less understand instead of trying to build them while inventing something entirely new.

If I would just write for ten minutes a day to start with I would be in the habit in no time. Sigh!