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My name is Dan Nguyen and I'm a journalist, programmer and photographer.
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Read my guide to programming: The Bastards Book of Ruby.
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Flickr photo: Vietnamese Rice Fields (Yên Bái: đường và mảng)
Yên Bái: đường và mảng, originally uploaded by Toan-IMV. This photo, from Flickr user Toan-IMV, makes me want to book a flight back to Vietnam pronto.
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Apple has 46& of Japanese smartphone market
From TUAW: Impress Corporation of Japan is reporting that Apple now controls almost half the smartphone market in Japan with over 3 million iPhones sold to date. Keep in mind, it has taken the iPhone little more than a year… Continue reading
Using PDFTOTEXT to convert a batch of PDFs to text and splitting them by page
I can’t believe how hard it was to find this (also, I know basically nothing about bash scripting), so maybe the next person who Googles this will find this post and save themselves a few minutes: (replace ’999′ with the… Continue reading
22 million Bush White House e-mails found
From the AP: Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years,… Continue reading
NPR: Charles Babbage’s ‘Difference Engine’; a computer designed in the steam age
“I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!” – Charles Babbage, the 19th-century man who, with better luck and political skill, could’ve brought the information age to the Victorians. This fascinating story from NPR (“A 19th-Century Mathematician… Continue reading
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Tags Charles Babbage, computers, history, Victorians
FriendFeed, Deepest Sender, FriendFeed Activity Widget
Still configuring the blog…opened a FriendFeed account so I could gather my various Flickr, Twitter, and Delicio.us items into the sidebar, using the FriendFeed Activity Widget. And am now using Deepest Sender, a FF-extension for WordPress posting so I don’t… Continue reading
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Just giving WordPress a go
About time to migrate to a more customizable platform. I’ve enjoyed how Information is Beautiful is laid out so I’m going to try out the Thematic theme they use.
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