1. The completeness of Iceland's National Register has eliminated the need for the country to conduct a regular census: population statistics can be obtained by simply querying the database.

    Iceland are way ahead of the rest of us. (emphasis mine, source)

  2. This evening’s project: catching up on a bit of dev. :

    • remove lines — whitespace FTW
    • get rid of crappy AJAX+backbone for calling new note UI into notes page, replace it with iframe+postMessage
  3. Long shower queue at today, so I spent the time coming up with a better way of counting on fingers. Binary is not very ergonomic, my way is more limited but still gets you up to 99 using only fingers as state, and potentially 399 using arms as state too.

  4. Laura Kalbag: My life is so much better since I forced Mail.app to copy 'email@emailaddress.com' rather than '<Full Name email@emailaddress.com>'

    Laura Kalbag just the other day I was thinking that applications should accept those strings as valid email addresses, and parse them as such