At the last minute I ended up giving a Lightning talk at OSCON 2008 (in the Perl track). I showed my Devel::REPL + Continuity debugging tool.

Here are my notes:

Lightning Talk OSCON 2008

Brock Wilcox
awwaiid@thelackthereof.org

See also:
* Continuity
* Continuity::REPL
* Devel::REPL
* Carp::REPL
* PadWalker

# .... These were then run in the REPL ....
# counter.pl at:
#   http://thelackthereof.org/projects/perl/Continuity-Monitor/eg/counter.pl

use PadWalker 'peek_my';
my $h = peek_my 23;
${ $h->{'$counter'} } = 77;

# Then...

sub new_prompt {
  my ($request) = @_;
  $request->print("Muahahaha!");
  return old_prompt(@_);
}

*old_prompt = *prompt;
*prompt = *new_prompt;

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Some of my family came to visit this weekend, and we did a bunch of sight-seeing. Here are the distance estimates, this is definitely a lower-bound of the amount we walked. I tried to include walks that I know everyone did, and left off a bunch of random trips to the store. Distances are in miles.

Day 1 - Zoo and Fireworks

• 3.1998 to and through zoo
• 0.3037 from dupont metro to apartment
• 3.6359 to fireworks and back

TOTAL: 7.14

Day 2 - Smithsonian and Folk Festival

• 0.3037 from dupont metro to apartment
• 1.9614 Smithsonian and folk festival
• 0.3037 from dupont metro to apartment
• 1.0309 to play music and back

TOTAL: 3.6

Day 3 - National Cathedral and Arlington Cemetary

• 0.2353 apartment to bus stop
• 0.7487 at cathedral
• 0.6753 at Arlington Cemetary
• 0.3037 from dupont metro to apartment

TOTAL: 1.96

Day 4 - Library of Congress and Memorials

• 0.8012 at library of congress
• 3.3956 at memorials

TOTAL: 4.2

GRAND TOTAL: 16.9 miles

I'm guessing that adding in more detail could easily add another mile or more. In the end I bet we walked about 20 miles in all. When you trade a car for your feet, make sure you have good shoes!

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I got another new camera! The last two didn't work out for very long, but this one has promise. I won it at our recent Corporate Bowling event... it was clearly my best score ever at 167. I got second place and thus the camera. Woot!

This first image is one of Sophia's flowers. Sophia is the rose bush that Beth got from my family in condolence of her appendectomy. After almost killing her (Sophia, that is), I've nursed her back to health and we've been rewarded with new blooms.

Other than random events and trips, one thing I'd like more photos of is my balcony garden. Time lapse or something fun. I sit there and stare at the thing enough... I may as well share the green joy with the world!

Lets see... what what other sorts of boring photos do people put on their blogs... CATS! I must have some of those somewhere around here...

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I've been using the Tree Style Tabs Firefox extension for a few months now, and love it! Having vertical tabs has always been fabulous, ever since I first encountered them in Galeon. The chrome-css hack that I have been using for the last few years in Firefox stopped working in Firefox 3 (beta), so I went exploring and am very glad I did.

Not only does the Tree Style Tabs extension give my my vertical tabs, it also gives me (surprise surprise) a tree of them! Each has it's own browsing history, and subtrees can be collapsed and reordered and all that wonderful goo.

Just now I was playing around with the settings and thought I'd try the auto-hide feature. I'm not sure I'll keep it because there is a slight flicker that bothers me... but it is neat none-the-less! The tab bar is hidden, and then when I mouse or keyboard activate it the bar appears translucently on top of the page. It might need some kinks worked out (or perhaps there is some other cause for the flickering), but I think I like it!

Highly recommended.

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I love to create and build -- lately I've made a few songs! My friends like to play guitar and sing, and I play the harmonica and am learning guitar. So here are my recent creations (all with the help or in conjunction with friends):

• Umbrellas
• Zombie Love
• Immaterial Things

Only the middle one has a recording posted so far, but I'll get recordings of the others sooner or later. More to come I hope :)

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