Today, however, let’s concentrate on fielding independent (often known as “peripheral�) statistics. What do a pitcher’s peripherals tell us about his batting average on balls in play? It turns out, a whole lot.
A little gem for the baseball statheads in the audience. I’ve subscribed to the author’s blog.
To repeat, I am no way suggesting that a Mac Tablet would not be completely awesome. I would buy at least five, possibly eight, so I could use a different one each day of the week with a hot-swappable backup.
Heh. 🙂
I’ve set up the README files for my WordPress plugins so they are formatted nicely now instead of the plain text representation that was there before. For the curious, before and after. In addition, the README links for each plugin on the plugins page will now show the README for the latest official release, even…
I’ve initiated a DNS change for alexking.org, kingdesign.net and taskspro.com. Everything should go smoothly (no downtime expected) as the new DNS will be pointing to this same server initially. I will be moving servers in the near future, and the new DNS server should make that change a little more smooth as well.
Very nice to see someone enjoying my work so much. 🙂
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Steve isn’t doing a year in review post, and I believe part of the problem is that he is hampered by his tools. I can sympathize, I felt the same way when I started. In fact, I used my Year in Review post as an excuse to finally do one of the things I put…
I got my first Amazon S3 bill: $0.62. Awesome.
Blockbuster is really going after Netflix in their ads during the bowl games this year. The ads are very effective. For the same price, Blockbuster gives you everything Netflix does plus local return and pick-up ability. I’ve got several years of ratings and rental history data in my Netflix account. That rating data is valuable…
Nick asks how I got the stats I posted. Nothing special or fancy, I just ran a couple of simple SQL queries. I figured some of you might want to run them as well, so here they are: Total # of posts in 2006: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `wp_posts` WHERE post_date >= ‘2006-01-01’ AND post_date <…
A few goals for 2007: Structure my work day a little better. More time coding and less time dealing with e-mail, etc. through better time management. Do a better job being on time (I’m normally ~5 minutes late). I plan to do this by trying to do a better job of stopping what I’m doing…