Monthly Archives: April 2008

stream of consciousness for 2008-04-02

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
  • discovered that popen() in ruby is many times faster than perl’s open2(). #
  • started writing a plugin and template for cacti to integrate varnish statistic. #
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Google Maps turning into good topo resource

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Google Maps just added contour lines to their ‘terrain’ view.  View a big mountain and you’ll also get first ascent data, the route, name, and year.  Very neat.

Example: Mt. McKinley

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