Book reviews for June 2015
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn’t My Fault) (And I’ll Never Do It Again) by P.J. O'Rourke
2/5
Pinnacles is the newest National Park which features various hikes to Talus Caves (formed by rockfalls into a valley) which are fun to scramble through as long as you don't think about the formation process while you do it.
Hike starts at 36.4943003, -121.173081 (Google Earth).
(Hike Map)
(Published to the Fediverse as: Pinnacles National Park #hike #pinnacles #caves Hike through Talus Caves at Pinnacles National Park )
2/5
Summer starts right now in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter in the southern. Rendered in Catfood Earth with the timezone layer (Windows, Android).
(Published to the Fediverse as: Summer Solstice 2015 in Catfood Earth #code #solstice #summer #winter #earth #northern #estival The exact moment of Summer Solstice 2015 as rendered in Catfood Earth )
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web
Finally! Maybe, in a few years...
Feel like making London the first National Park City this weekend? If so you're in good company.
Photo of the Lawrence 37-Inch Cyclotron, an early particle accelerator, at the Lawrence Hall of Science (University of Berkeley).
(Published to the Fediverse as: The Lawrence 37-Inch Cyclotron #photo #cyclotron Photo of the Lawrence 37-Inch Cyclotron at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of Berkeley, California. )
This fucking watermelon will never be finished. Each bite is only going to reduce the remaining melon by half at best.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Zeno's Watermelon #photo #paradox Is it possible to finish a slice of watermelon? Not if you only ever eat half of the remaining melon. Photo proof. )
Wall of Skulls at the California Academy of Sciences in the Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Wall of Skulls #photo #skull Photo of the Wall of Skulls exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences (Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California). )
4/5
This is now the book I'd recommend to anyone implementing Google Analytics (and wish had been available when I started). It spends a lot of useful time on how to get data to be trustworthy, how to keep it that way and how to make sure that analysts have the right context when trying to use the data. Great stuff because this is the hard part. Getting data in is easy, being convinced that it's right and useful is complicated. My only real ding is that for some inexplicable reason you have to buy two ebooks instead of one. But that's minor, it's worth it.
4/5
Fitting end to a brilliant and disturbing trilogy.
4/5
I don't know why this comes as two ebooks... will review at the end of ebook 2.
I've just released Catfood Earth 3.40 for Windows and 1.50 for Android.
Both updates fix a problem with the clouds layer not updating. The Android update also adds compatibility for Android 5 / Lollipop.
Also, Catfood Earth for Android is now free. I had been charging $0.99 for the Android version but I've reached the conclusion that I'm never going to retire based on this (or even buy more than a couple of beers) so it's not worth the hassle. Catfood Earth for Windows has been free since 3.20.
Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
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Monitor page index status with Google Sheets, Apps Script and the Google Search Console API
International Date Line Longitude, Latitude Coordinates
Upgrading from word2vec to OpenAI
Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront
Scanning from the ADF using WIA in C#
Is it safe to open securedoc.html (Cisco Registered Envelope)?
User scoped custom dimensions in Google Analytics 4 using gtag