Josh (the blog)

I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.


@joahua

How do you take your tea?

Not content with the usual methods of food-related procrastination, I bring you this question:

How do people who wear glasses all the time manage hot drinks? I’m not that blind, only wearing reading glasses for longish stints and/or when headaches exist on the verge of consciousness. However, when negotiating a cup of tea, I find it suddenly rather difficult to see:

Me, unable to see through the steam from my drink.

Geek again

I know I’ve made posts like this before, but it feels neccessary to keep doing so such that the strangeness of such occurences may continue to be acknowledged.

Picked up a page of scribbled notes, and mentally reached for Ctrl + F. I realised it wasn’t possible, but the reason I didn’t think it possible was because it was too messy for OCR. So… OCR is now being performed with searches on random physical objects. Weird geeks…

Local galleries fixed

As if this server wasn’t pushing enough traffic per day already (this site is generally 100MB/day of what you’ll see on that graph, plus spider traffic), I finally got around to sitting down and fixing the broken stuff about the gallery here. Well, okay, Ben did most of the fixing. I changed some URI structures/added some rules so that old permalinks start working again. Anyway, point is, all the old stuff is working again now. Not that this probably affects many/any of you who read blog stuff, unless you’re feeling nostalgic. Shrug :)

I’m now of mixed mind as to where to upload more photos. Flickr is fun + makes editing metadata easily + I’ve paid for it for a year. But here is stable + I have complete control and… blah blah blah… it’s not owned by Yahoo! (yet ;-) err I mean… *cough*)

Ah well. Flickr API’s make it easy to pull data out quick + easily. So conceivably it’d be not too hard to write something to “export” to cat-scan. Maybe by this time next year…

Fun with Google indexing

I’ve got 8,480 images under this domain, according to Google Image Search. You’re limited to 50 pages of image matches I think (1000 images, 20 per page), but it’s still good to get an overall impression of the amount of graphical content on a domain. Mine is slightly biased because of year12.joahua.com. Without it, I’ve still got a rather-solid 3,760 images online (so, on/associated with this blog, basically).

Verisimilitude

I just used that word in an essay for the first time ever. Never mind its Module C HSC English relevancy, I never once used it there. It’s sitting in a philosophy essay and is so surrounded by other wanky words (I’m filling up space) that it appears perfectly at home. Lovely.