September 2008
MapLight.org has the data on which representatives voted for the bailout and how much they received from Wall St http://tr.im/4nn
On most days, I find I delete as many draft tweets as I push the button on…
Gotta love the way a Wikipedia article on punctuation references an emotional moment for Darth Vader http://tr.im/dash
A newspaper website without an advanced search function? Wake the fsck up, Fairfax!
Java for Mac OS X update: 80.6 MB! Sheesh…
R/t @mpesce No Heroics (from BBC) http://tinyurl.com/65mlwo - just watch it, ok?
If you needed another reason why DRM is such an iredeemably bad idea http://tr.im/drm Wal-Mart = FAIL!
is seeking confirmation…
Fire the Bastards! by Jack Green →
The chimera has landed…
R/t @harpers Fire the Bastards! http://tr.im/ftb Jack Green’s fisking of the first incompetent reviews of ‘The Recognitions’
‘Hardcore!’ - the rallying cry of a witless generation…
Installing Fedora 9 on a spare box. Some old time Friday night craziness…
I was getting a lot of traffic to the blog from the ‘wikipedia’ keyword, turns out it does ok on google.nz http://tr.im/36k
Telstra launches Twitter support channel http://tr.im/36y Love the use of the ®…
There is nothing as disheartening in public sector comms as an unrequited desire for engagement from an amorous community…
Can I be the judge of how strong a password I would like to access your crappy service? Kthnxbai.
Review of a new Intelligent Design textbook http://tr.im/idiots confirms that ID stands for ‘intellectual dishonesty’…
RWW Interviews David Tosh of Elgg →
Open source social networking platform
Worldwide mobile subscribers to hit 4 billion by the end of 2008 http://bit.ly/49F50g When will web developers catch on?
Import all my Delicious bookmarks to Evernote? Each bookmark becomes an individual note… And why would I want to do that?
Still up http://www.policeact.govt.nz/wiki/ but locked - no further contributions…
Watching Web 2.0 hype insinuate itself into Govt 2.0 discussions… People, they *aren’t* the same thing.
Tim O’Reilly fisks Bernard Lunn’s “thin piece of analysis” re Google spreading itself too thin http://bit.ly/21r13B
Tip for mandarins. Good guidance is a lot like anasthesia; you should lull the recipient into a receptive state, but not euthenase them…
Nothing is as satisfying as seeing your organization adopt another meaningful communications metric. Except maybe responding to it…
Has Delicious just downed tools after the 2.0 launch? ‘Cause I still have to reset all my options on a daily basis - and that fsks me off…
“We’re no longer supporting this command. Soon it will be reported as an update.” WTF is that!?
Gallery of annoying email signatures http://www.orsi.net/Gallery/
Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are... →
The results suggest that a familiarity with Windows dialogs have bred a degree of contempt and that users simply don’t care what the boxes say anymore.
R/t @maetl: “The length of an email .sig is usually in inverse proportion to the intelligence of its sender” - that should be …
Youe email signature is not a CV, please don’t treat it as such…
Main Page - SME Server →
GPL
WatchOctopussy…
The Kenyon Review: No. →
A meditation on the rejection slip…
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS | More... →
“It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in…
Reverse SSH Tunneling →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-21) →
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Albert Ayler
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Dub Asylum
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Serving Your Home Network on a Silver Platter with... →
Step by step account of setting up a home server…
SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System →
Shell account
SettingUpNFSHowTo - Community Ubuntu Documentation →
Can anyone recommend a free shell account?
Mark Harris starting his ACTA talk at Free Software Day Barcamp #fsdwellington
Trying, and failing, to get sleep and hibernate to work on my laptop. It’s the price of freedom… #fsdwellington
My Top Five Jazz Bands or Musicians Who Will Have To Be Shot Come the Musical Revolution: http://bit.ly/1HNCz7
Scott Fahlman - the man responsible for inflicting emoticons on us http://bit.ly/1Ug4gm B@stard!
Getting ready to head into http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/
R/t @vanderwal Quite ironic, some of the “I’m a PC” ad campaign images were actually made on a Mac - http://icanhaz.com/pcmadeonmac
New version of VLC (0.9.2) has some great new features, and looks a little smoother as well…
The Wow starts Now →
Lineup of dullards at the Vista launch…
3 new post-Seinfeld M$ ads are a depressing reminder of telco adverts in the ’90s http://bit.ly/4DLr7u “I’m a PC” (privileged consumer)…