updates @ m.blog

Some other weblogs I read have been making these lists lately, so I’ll throw my own recommendations into the mix. Here are some “useful tools”:

LaTeX: For most serious writers, scientific or otherwise, LaTeX is a no-brainer. Moving away from the word processor into a tool actually designed for writing is liberating. […]

I wanted to have a source code highlighting plugin for WordPress, and the best existing one seems to be Amit Gupta’s iG:Syntax Hiliter. However, a number of things about that plugin annoyed me… so I changed them. Three cheers for open source!

Added SCROLL_BOX and SHOW_LANG style variables to definitions, to make it easier […]

A cluster of of group sharing activity, taken from a social network analysis graph I produced based on data from a research project here at Berkeley. The results of the research project are not yet published, so I am probably not at liberty to discuss them publicly. The “generic” version is that the […]

Need a grouphug?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
$_ = get(’http://grouphug.us/random/’);
m|
(.*?)
|ism;
$_ = $1;
s/< ([^>]+)>//ig;
s/^s*//;
s/s*$//;
print “$_n”;
Warning: reading people’s confessions is addictive, and occasionally NWS.