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Colorado High Park Fire Time-lapse Videos

Posted on June 24, 2012June 24, 2012 by Jon Stacey

On the first day of the Colorado High Park Fire (June 9) I was in the Red Feather Lakes area, so I took a couple short time-lapse videos of the smoke plumes. As of this writing the fire has burned more than 82,000 acres and destroyed over 190 homes, and is only partially contained. Both…

The Long Road to IPv6

Posted on June 2, 2012June 2, 2012 by Jon Stacey

IPV6 launch day is just around the corner. Less than four days to go at the time of this posting. I couldn’t think of a reason why I should be left out of all the fun, so I took the plunge and configured my server (Bamboo) to serve up this site from both IPv4 and…

Text Mining Wikipedia for Misspelled Words

Posted on December 23, 2011December 24, 2011 by Jon Stacey

Have you ever read an article on Wikipedia and wondered if the article was more accurate or syntactically correct than if the article had been written by an individual or small team? I have, and this curiosity led me to ask a question [many questions in reality]. This paper is a demonstration of both the…

Mac OS X Filenames with Apostrophe’s and Ruby 1.9 Unicode Support

Posted on November 12, 2011November 12, 2011 by Jon Stacey

Ruby 1.9’s m17n (multilingualization) engine has eased some of the pains of supporting different encodings. Unfortunately, it makes things a little more difficult in the simplest of cases. I was introduced to this problem for the first time with the error message `invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)`. This is a mini crash course for understanding the…

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