December 2008
The management course from hell... →
7 days in Christchurch; 7 years in therapy.
LinuxTracker .::. Index →
Linux torrents
Playing with http://jinni.com/ if it was integrated with Channel BT it would be an absolute killer…
Elephants painting? http://tr.im/jumbo
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
John Coltrane (3)
Art Ensemble of Chicago (3)
Music Revelation Ensemble (3)
The Necks (3)
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell (2)
Imported from …
Deleted the comment form on my family website: the spammers have won that round…
The Sarod is a sadly underrated instrument.
Monday schadenfreude: Slate calls time on Tom Cruise’s career http://tr.im/cruise Mmm, delicious…
is thinking about upgrading to 2.6.28…
“A large man, he had loose hanging cheeks, and pursed lips from the many years of putting words in parentheses.” Murray Bail.
Greatest name for a jazz player ever: Spanky DeBrest.
It would be fantastic to go into the new year without seeing a plethora of ‘2009 is the year for Linux __’ in my reader; but I fear not…
RSA - 2008 Edward Boyle Memorial Lecture -... →
Stephen Coleman, professor of political communication at Leeds University, believes there is a disconnect between government and the people, based on a growing public fear that individuals no longer…
is a tad disappointed at the paucity of NSFW being shared now that none of us are actually _at work_ FFS people: lift your game!
How Big Pharma has corrupted the medical profession and normalized prescription drugs http://tr.im/drugz Doc, more red ones please…
How to Setup Ubuntu for Reinstalling your... →
This creates a text file with a list of installed programs and after reinstalling Ubuntu you will be able to apply that list and reinstall all of the programs without searching through endless…
NYT buzzwords of 2008 (and a bonus: typography of 1998) http://tr.im/2nqu
Interview w/ @cshirky where he describes the ‘information overload’ pundits as narcissists http://tr.im/shirky Expecting marketers to read?
Watched In the Thick of It, ‘Spinners & Losers’ last night. Like The Hollow Men, only caustic. Scarily real. Brilliant.
A computer case designed by Daleks? http://tr.im/antec
Happy Birthday Charlie Babbage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage Thanks for the memory Chuck…
Is Reality TV where talent goes to die?
Mega Mitre 10 Hardware is not somewhere you want to be on Boxing Day; unless you have a high tolerance for lollygaggers…
Glorious sunshine means firing up the new brushcutter and wreaking some havoc, er, gardening…
Pew Research Center: Internet Overtakes Newspapers... →
The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news. Currently, 40%…
Minor geek moment: successfully set up NFS between Ubuntu desktop & Debian laptop. All done while the family napped. I can has filez…
Today is a day when I like to pause and reflect, and give thanks …for Ad Block Pro. Merry Christmas all.
Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I : CJR: →
But the information overload people are the most narcissistic because information overload started in Alexandria, in the library of Alexandria, right? That was the first example where we have…
Interview with Clay Shirky, Part II : CJR: →
Continued…
Hacking Ubuntu →
Online version of the book
Creating smart playlists in Songbird…
The end of a format - last VHS tapes ship in the US http://tr.im/2lrd
Rupert Murdoch on technology http://tr.im/rupe Or, why newspapers are dead media…
Intel Social Media Guidelines →
We expect all who participate in social media on behalf of Intel to be trained understand and follow these guidelines, failure to do so could put your future participation at risk.
Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART →
This article explains how to use smartmontools’ smartctl utility and smartd dæmon to monitor the health of a system’s disks. See smartmontools.sourceforge.net for download and installation…
How to fold an origami Millenium Falcon http://tr.im/falcon Impress the family w/ ideal place setting for your Star Wars themed xmas dinner
Shutting down work computers for the year. It has been, well, interesting…
RT @spanishmanners: No, Pope Palpatine, fuck _you_: http://xrl.us/34pog «Emphasizing (if there was any doubt) the irrelevance of the Church
Perplexed to see the number of TV ‘personalities’ w/ book deals. Most of them are inane babblers, what would their prose be like? <yikes />
If only this had been explained to me at school http://tarvu.com/
Reading papers on the reforms bought about by the State Sector Act (1988). I think I am need of a holiday. Or therapy. Probably both…
Meeting with Enrique Lihn →
Roberto Bolaño short story
I’m sorry Steve, retweeting isn’t lazy - it is sharing. That’s why it is called _social_ media…
Roberto Bolaño short story in the New Yorker http://tr.im/bolano
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Music Revelation Ensemble (3)
Art Ensemble of Chicago (3)
The Necks (3)
John Coltrane (3)
James Carter (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I love Mozilla Weave, mainly because when I can get more than one machine to connect to their server it feels like winning the lottery…
Ars Technica article on mapping of conversations across social networks http://tr.im/bl0gs and the impact on policy debate.
“I’m just a jazz singing farmer, out standing in my field.” Archie Shepp.
RT @davebriggs: andrew keen really is full of shit: http://is.gd/cAPS « Internet already blamed for idiocy & obesity. Now fascism? HTFU…
Ripping CDs to my hard drive. Nothing like having an absurd amount of disk space…