Recently I needed to install Drupal 7 non-interactively on a Linux Server running a typical LAMP software stack. There is a lot of information out there already for this type of installation but nothing concise for what I needed to do.  Hopefully by adding this one to the pile it will help someone else who [...]

Transcripts of the Sitting Justices This post takes a look at supreme court transcripts as corpus for natural language processing. Lately I’ve been playing around with the nltk python module and I thought this might be an interesting data set (given that I’m also an avid follower of SCOTUS). Supreme Court transcripts are made available [...]

Lately I noticed that there were more than the usual amount of ssh invalid logins on a machine I manage. For kicks here is data from a script that extracts some name statistics from auth logs. These stats are compared to the male and female names contained in one of the nltk corpora. Below is [...]

I received mail from Piotr Zimnowlodzki last week who showed me this cool hack using the PlayTune library and my midi converter script to play “Can you feel the love tonight” an attiny. Much better than the cheap greeting card hack, amazing craftmanship!

Here is another weekend hack that plays around with my midi to AVR conversion script and library. With xmas fast approaching I thought it would be fun to convert a pacman candy tin to an xmas ornament and have it play music. Below is the result, pressing a button on the tin will cycle through [...]