Author Archives: Mark

Fun with the Last.fm API, python and Wordle

By Mark | May 11, 2009

I’ve been looking for a reason to hack around with python. Recently, my friend @smbrown published a post on his The Monkey Represents Sharing blog entitled Wordle visualization of my Tweetstream where he used a python script to archive his Twitter stream which he then used to create a Wordle, or a visual representation of […]

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The Sadecki’s are moving!

By Mark | May 5, 2008

We have decided to move closer to our work in an effort to cut down on time spent commuting so that we can spend MORE time with Ruby.
We accepted an offer on our home just last week and have picked out a
new place to live in Jamaica Plain. The new place in JP is just […]

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Hiking with Ruby

By Mark | December 30, 2007

Hiking with Ruby

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Taking tumblr for a ride

By Mark | December 30, 2007

Looking for more convenient ways to make posts to this blog. I’m mainly looking at twitter, jaiku, and now tumblr. They all have their pros and cons. Now I have to play with integrating them into sadecki.com

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Using scp to copy files/directories with spaces in their names

By Mark | September 7, 2007

While trying to copy a directory recursively from one machine to another on a network using the scp command I ran into a problem I have never encountered before. I suspected that the spaces in the directory name were causing the problem so I tried the usual escaping options. First I tried escaping […]

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