Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon: ... It's not even close to relevant.

Sun, 21 Aug 2005

Planning to Fail - Projects Beyond Your Ability
Do Cool Shit
Every Damn Day
Or Die Trying
From Tom Peters.

In an attempt to do just that, well the first two bits anyway, I'm currently planning my next project; this one is a little different, I know I'm going to fail. It's not very often you embark on a project not to succeed but to see where and how you screw it up. Sometimes a challenge is just too big and outside of your area of expertise. It makes sense to try with a realistic expectation, limited investment, a strict time limit and treat the whole thing as a learning experience rather than either waste resources or not attempt it at all.

While this isn't a situation I ever want to be in as an employee, I'm quite looking forward to learning how far I'm going to get before I lock myself in to a corner and have to call it a day. The excitement of trying something new is always welcome. And it will be (IMHO) cool.

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Posted: 2005/08/21 23:56 | /nottech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date

Vim URL Shortener Update
I've made a couple of small changes to my Vim URL Shortener script. It now uses WWW::Shorten instead of WWW::MakeAShorterLink, it's documentation has been tided up a bit and the vim script now replaces all occurrences of the selected URL in a single sweep. It's not a major upgrade so don't rush to update.

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Posted: 2005/08/21 23:35 | /tools/commandline | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date

Blosxom TagCloud -- Initial Release
Ever wanted a tag cloud of your Blosxom posts? With just this blosxom_tagcloud.pl script (and three Perl modules from CPAN) you can have one that integrates itself with your Blosxom footer and even allows easy merging of the tag cloud and any static text/HTML you've used in the past.

I've uploaded the initial version of the code and I've put up a Blosxom TagCloud page with some more information.

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Posted: 2005/08/21 00:26 | /tools/commandline | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date

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