January 2009
15 years after he was excised from a Letterman show, CBS is airing the Bill Hicks material tonight http://tr.im/hicks It must be safe by now
Gardening done for the day. Waiter: I’d like a beer. Cold. And some P-Funk. Loud.
Conspicuous consumption alert: Starck speakers released http://tr.im/dqh8 Complete with amusingly pretentious quotes from Phillipe…
Holy shit! A Lego Turing Machine http://tr.im/aturing (bonus soundtrack from ‘The A-Team’)
Are hotmail addresses becoming retro cool (in a dorky, couldn’t care about looking clueless sort of way)?
is not overly enamoured of the Friday afternoon 2000 word speechwriting dash…
One benefit of following people is they can DM you with helpful advice… Just saying.
Whenever I sit in a meeting I am reminded of the saying “Only break the silence if you can improve upon it.”
http://twitpic.com/18klb - Google fails?
There is something inherently cruel about international traffic throttled to 30kB/s and then downloading from a local mirror at 500 kB/s…
How to sync TweetDeck using Dropbox
Inspired by this post on syncing TweetDeck using Dropbox on Windows, I decided to give it a crack on Linux/Unix machines. It is pretty straightforward.
The primary difference is the location of the two files that you need to move to a Dropbox folder. On both my Linux box and Mac, I just used the locate command to find them:
locate TweetDeckFast
The two files that you need to grab are located...
Lunchtime project: sync my different Tweetdeck apps using Dropbox. Mac sorted - will set up the Linux box when I get home…
RT @robertbrook: http://howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com/
Your sanctimonious email footer, ‘please consider the environment before printing,’ works better without the half page of sig & disclaimer.
Great email from Sunshine Megatron on closing T-Shirt Hell http://tr.im/cuqh “their lazy, just enough passion for an email, ideals…”
Installing Gentium http://tr.im/cq50 a typeface for the nations…
Calling yourself a ‘Govt 2.0 expert’ is like proclaiming expertise in time travel; until you move beyond the theory into delivery, spare me.
Whoops! Monster.com loses user data (again) http://tr.im/clpy including data from www.usajobs.com - the govt job site…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Eric B. & Rakim (2)
UB40 (1)
John Coltrane (1)
African Head Charge (1)
U. Srinivas (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Roberto Bolaño decribed Paulo Coelho “a form of Brazilian soap-opera witch doctor.” Too generous methinks…
Talking Skunk Works with Robert Brook | Chris... →
Interview with Robert Brook where he talks about some of the applications that are opening up Parliamentary data.
RT @vanderwal: brilliant interview with @robertbrook on open Parliament skunk works http://bit.ly/3zWl6W
Sitting down to watch the first series of ‘The Thick of It.’ Particularly looking forward to the, erm, forthright language…
The Penguin Cometh… RT @sigurdmagnusson: Wellington to host open source conference next year (LCA 2010) http://tr.im/tuxnz
RT @HamishMacEwan: Microsoft defends return to DRM http://tinyurl.com/c3qslu *That* is a blod & visionary business strategy…
Is it just me, or is @cshirky a dead ringer for Tom Hanks? http://tr.im/bvpu Great link from @mattlane
Train stuck outside Wellington, Blackberry about to go flat, no iPod. Jesus, I may actually have to talk to someone…
Is it wrong to be embarrassed that ‘social-media’ is my top delicious tag?
And for the public sector masochists, a thread on why Gov IT is so bad http://tr.im/govit ‘the etiology of e-govt suck’ a highlight for me.
““If you didn’t keep aware all the time, you’d suddenly feel as if you’d stepped into an empty elevator shaft.” Coltrane on playing w/ Monk
My hardback copy of 2666 just arrived http://tr.im/biki and it is a beautiful thing…
CompilingSoftware - Community Ubuntu Documentation →
Thorough tutorial stepping through the install process including troubleshooting and resolving dependencies…
Excellent initiative from the Chinese: criticize public servants and be banned from teh Interwebs for up to 6 months http://tr.im/b7pi
RT @cbasturea: The nerds @TheWhiteHouse know the power of symbolic gestures: http://is.gd/gBKb
Dutch govt report says torrentz have positive effect on economy http://tr.im/b4nx “gives people access to a wide range of cultural goods…”
RT @swhitley: People are really buying Shorty nominations? How many layers of “lame” can be piled into one story? http://is.gd/gDWl
BitTorrent is a bit like Digg: its value is severely constrained by the homogeneity of its users…
A guided tour of Emacs →
Excellent intro…
Excellent - Series 1 DVD of ‘The Thick of It’ has arrived…
Wellington tweeps: need opinions on best public sector intranets & also looking for a web dev to build a small static site. DM me for either
I’m sorry, but recommending govt agencies open offices in Second Life is just poor advice. Doing so would be both profligate & stupid…
Simon Phipps, Sun CTO, in Wgtn for an open source forum http://tr.im/phipps Jan 26
Now music is all loaded, am exporting playlists from Songbird to Squeezecenter. It is a beautiful thing when the technology works _for you_
The one benefit or re-ripping all my CDs (35GB in 2 days, so far) is rediscovering all the forgotten gems. U Srinivas, for example…
The perfect mashup for pedantic mac fetishists: the scrabble keyboard http://tr.im/keys
Re-ripping all my CDs because m4a is such a fucking useless format…
Why do people send the genric LinkedIn invite? If I am “a person you trust” couldn’t you take 2 mins to write a personal message? FAIl
Laptop job complete. Debian 5 (Testing) running like a charm, wireless up and all data restored. Next?
Best insult of the day? “Reflexive techno-utopian” http://tr.im/839c
Laptop back from repair with a new hard drive: now to reinstall Lenny…