Blog posts

1. The Hard Sell

   I just picked up 2 tickets for DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist’s current tour, called “The Hard Sell”. I’m seeing them at Sonar in Baltimore on Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 08:00 PM! A lot of the show is broken…

2. Sparklines and data trending

   I keep going on about Tufte stuff . I find sparklines really really amazingly cool. I currently use them in my weekly reports for management thanks to some software from Bizzantz and a spreadsheet I…

3. Conway's Law

   Tufte finds Conway’s law frequently rearing it’s ugly head. If you’ve worked on engineering projects, or taken over for someone else’s engineering project, you’ll recognize it immediately. Any piece…

4. Tufte - Presenting Data and Information

   I had the pleasure of attending a one day course on the presentation of data and information given by Edward Tufte in Washington DC. I already owned copies of The Visual Display of Quantitative…

5. Eternal bash history

   Debian Administration has great advice for requesting that bash keep a history of all commands recorded. Add this to your .bashrc! export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%s "…