Google just ate a good chunk of this

Blogger's sure the handy little memory hole lately. What good are "Draft autosaved" messages if you find most of your draft has actually been thrown away once you restart your web browser?

Early 2012

Gathering items I currently have open:

Programming Style and Your Brain (1 hr YouTube, good advice)
Looks like Google would have let me make a quick $25 on my workstation at the office (or anywhere else privacy's a non-issue) (via /.)
Exciting-looking jazz bootleg site
Free AI class I ran out of time for (over, instruction seemed to confuse more than enlighten me - although I'd taken a previous AI class covering the same material)
/.: More free Stanford CS courses
Udacity: online ed startup from same Stanford prof
simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) project
Over the Rhine's recommended album/movies/literature list
Images of Memphis' Sun Studio (good LEGO building fodder?)
Jarchives Shut down (what will take its place?)

Why?

I'm doing this for a number of reasons, sadly, none of which really involve public consumption.
For one, I need a way to note interesting items to refer back to. Saving a to-do list on one computer isn't good enough anymore (I'll need to see it elsewhere sooner or later). Google Reader's Shared Items feature used to be useful to me, but Google seems determined to butcher all of their other services to promote Google Plus.

I'm not thrilled about investing more time into Blogger knowing that Google could hack up Blogger the same way they did Reader, but it's better than nothing. I also like knowing that the odds of Google going out of business are very low. This insignificant note could be here for decades if Google keeps offering Blogger the same way. Sure, delicious could be better for saving interesting links, but the odds of them suddenly disappearing are much higher.

This also will be widely scattered, at random, across topics that catch my eye. That probably won't be terribly useful to anyone else, but the idea is to grab things on any topic of interest to me. It's not for you, it's for me. Sorry.

Notes from 12/23/2011 trip to Raleigh

Dunkin Donuts -10 (Western) -10:3 (Hillsborough) (B6G6, free with coffee, possibly Baskin Robins)
Schoolkids -9 PM (10% extra buyback)
Cupcake Shoppe -11 PM (BOGO menu item)
Cafe Helios -midnight? (free coffee, BOGO coffee)
NOFO at the Pig (store) -6 (25% off one item)
NOFO at the Pig (cafe) -3, 5:3-10 (free sweet potato fries with 2 entrees, BOGO pasta entree)
Flying Biscuit -10 (2x BOGO menu item)

Rita's -8? (bogo)


NOFO at the pig to: Cafe Helios to: The Cupcake Shoppe to:Dunkin Donuts, Hillsborough St to: Schoolkids Records to:Flying Biscuit Cafe


A. Nofo @ the Pig2014 Fairview Road, Raleigh, NC 27608 -
23161. Head SE on Glenwood Ave toward White Oak Rd 1.4mi
2. Turn R onto Anwood Pl Dstn will be on the R 75ft
B. Cafe Helios413 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27603 1.4 mi – about 4 mins
3. Head E on Anwood Pl toward Glenwood Ave 75ft
4. Turn R onto Glenwood Ave Dstn will be on the L 0.2mi
C. The Cupcake Shoppe Bakery104 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 0.2 mi – about 57 secs
5. Head S on Glenwood Ave toward Willard Pl 486ft
6. Take the 2nd R onto Hillsborough St 0.5mi
7. At the traffic circle, continue straight to stay on Hillsborough St 0.5mi
8. At the traffic circle, continue straight to stay on Hillsborough St 0.3mi
9. Turn R onto Chamberlain St Dstn will be on the R 98ft
D. Dunkin 1.3 mi – about 4 mins' Donuts & Baskin-Robbins2316 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27607
10. Head S on Chamberlain St toward Hillsborough St 98ft
11. Turn R onto Hillsborough St 0.2mi
12. Turn R onto Pogue St 351ft
13. Take the 1st R onto Vanderbilt Ave 0.1mi
14. Turn R onto Horne St 387ft
15. Turn L onto Hillsborough St 0.3mi
16. At the traffic circle, take the 4th exit and stay on Hillsborough St Dstn will be on the R 0.1mi
E. Schoolkids Records2114 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27607 0.9 mi – about 5 mins
17. Head NW on Hillsborough St toward Enterprise St 79ft
18. Take the 1st R onto Enterprise St 0.2mi
19. Turn R onto Clark Ave 0.2mi
20. Turn L 138ft
21. Turn R Dstn will be on the R 62ft
F. The Flying Biscuit2016 Clark Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27605 0.5 mi – about 2 mins

July 2011 Link Dump

July 2011 (changed to a readable format 2/2012):
Interesting personal website
Elvis Costello's top 500 albums (as of 11/2000)
Research on Wikipedia's "All Roads Lead to Philosophy" problem
It's a dead link now - maybe this was more about all roads leading to philosophy
Open-source stereo computer vision project
KT Tunstall with Daryl Hall
I'm going to build this house
http://mplayer.pastemagazine.com/issues/week-1/articles# Paste MPlayer
Blogpost for partial solution to traveling salesman
(more) partial solution to traveling salesman
(yet more) partial solution to traveling salesman

Uh-Oh

I accidentally just deleted this whole thing. It hadn't been updated since 2007 anyway, but still - a time will come when I will want to know what I had for breakfast in 2007, or when I found that vandalism, or when...

...ah, forget it. It's not coming back and there's nothing I can do about it. I'll have to rely on memory.