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The weblog of Steve Ivy, going since 1999 in one form or another. Still something of a CMS junkie.

XVI Edition.

Daily Digest for Friday, May 28, 2010

☀️ Earliest posts come first.

TinWhistle (was NewBase60)

Published on at 12:00 UTC by #permalink

Apropos of my recent interview with Tantek Çelik about URL shorteners, I’ve ported his NewBase60 code (part of his CASSIS project) to perl. It’s now found on github at

. This code converts numbers (in this case, dates expressed as days-since-the-epoch) into a base60 (sexagesimal) representation that’s really short. For example, ‘1971-06-29’ becomes ‘94’, and ‘2010-05-26’ becomes ‘45v’.

Steve Ivy

what does indie mean? http://bit.ly/bXbKna (comment on @dotBen’s tweet.. on Buzz.)

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Steve Ivy

re: http://bit.ly/bXbKna /me hums @frontalot Indier Than Thou…

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Steve Ivy

@dotBen I hadn’t - thanks. It’s true that there is a starving artist vibe to the indie-advocate gig. What to do about that? #open #advocacy

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Steve Ivy

I ported @t’s new base 60 code (from cassis) to perl: http://github.com/sivy/NewBase60 #diso #perl

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Steve Ivy

NewBase60 http://bit.ly/bRzqAI (via @monkinetic)

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Steve Ivy

@timbray target temp today in PHX: 98º (25C).

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Steve Ivy

“In a time before caffeine (morning), two rivals enter the arena - only one leaves.” Apparently coffee kicks Dr. Pepper’s ass every time.

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Steve Ivy

@unitedbreaks is jammin today

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Steve Ivy

something I did not expect to read today: “Yahoo! and Twitter are good examples of traditional companies” http://bit.ly/aysK1f

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