March 2009
If you are recording a screencast, for fscks sake, turn off your mobile phone _before_ you start recording…
Copyleft →
Phillip Charles Linux outfit in Dunedin
Marvelling at the amount of discussion on the Australian Govt 2.0 camp list http://tr.im/govau2
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
Chucho Valdes (11)
Lester Bowie’s New York Organ Ensemble (5)
Mark Simmonds Freeboppers (5)
William Parker (4)
Miles Davis (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by …
Zenwalk running in VirtualBox. That was amazingly straightforward…
Downloading VirtualBox…
Govt 2.0 barcamp in Canberra: http://groups.google.com.au/group/gov20canberra Sign up, get involved, make a difference.
Installing VirtualBox 2.0 On An Ubuntu 8.10... →
How to install Sun xVM VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop…
I didn’t want to click on this piece on govt spin doctors http://tr.im/ralston Suffice to say it is as inaccurate as it is opinionated…
Your button says ‘Follow me on Twitter’ but it is just your RSS feed & you don’t follow anyone back. Why bother? FAIL!
The Quiet Coup, or how the banking oligarchs are holding the US Govt to ransom http://tr.im/hUg2
The FAA’s accountability model is broken & their reasoning flawed: strikes->funding != reduced reporting http://tr.im/hU5Z
Just listened to a terrific podcast on how to pursue quality, by @gruber & @hotdogsladies http://tr.im/hTDx via @Canuckflack
RT @dominiccampbell: Feels like v familiar gov 2 gov competitive pimping of gov soc med efforts w/ little mention of outcomes #gov20camp
Digging some Chucho Valdés. Like a Cuban Oscar Peterson on a steroid and mojito rampage…
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space,” Mies van der Rohe, who would have turned 123 today…
Diagnose and fix network problems yourself |... →
Thorough, step-by-step guide to troubleshoot network issues…
Dominion Post has Simon Power as Minister of State Services on p1 & Tony Ryall on p3. Haven’t they heard of Google?
WordPress › Twit Connect « WordPress Plugins →
Uses OAuth to sign in to WordPress blogs via your Twitter account. Clever.
Is it just me, or does Google docs move towards more M$ Word-like features (drawing) seem like a rush to FAIL? http://tr.im/hOOo
RT @swhitley: Twit Connect WordPress Plugin. Claim comments w/ your Twitter id - http://bit.ly/6Lwd < Very nice…
Some days the line between being a comms professional and a fscking magician becomes a little blurred for some…
Government capping policy: http://www.ssc.govt.nz/capping
Group invitations for Second Life occasionally blow into my inbox, the glum detritus of obsolescence…
Yammer’s RSS feed is practically useless, which is yet another reason not to use it…
Font Picker is a very tidy little AIR app http://tr.im/hNzQ
Amusing anecdotes about how Big Music screwed artists & themselves through greed and myopia http://tr.im/hNBv
Pedantry, I know, but why do people use ‘begs the question’ when they really means ‘invites.’ http://tr.im/hLXQ
Is twitter a better news service than the mainstream media? http://tr.im/hLqy [spoiler: no cheerleading]
As a paying subscriber to Last.fm I have no issue with them charging for streaming: it’s a terrific service…
Neuromancer by William Gibson →
Voyager (1986), Paperback, 320 pages
Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray →
Penguin (Non-Classics) (1984), Paperback, 304 pages
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide →
Penguin Modern Classics, 1966. Paperback, 345 pages.
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by... →
Penguin Classics (1985), Paperback, 272 pages
Travels in the Congo by Andre Gide →
Viking Penguin (1986), Paperback, 320 pages
Select Committee was, as always, edifying. Now, talking at a lunchtime session to the Network of Public Sector Communicators…
Conchords episode directed by Michel Gondry is just brilliant http://tr.im/hJeD
All 4 browsers open furiously clicking on Twitter ads, helping to validate their business model…
Shock new study: “operating in teams nearly always enhances the probability something useful will emerge” http://tr.im/t3ams <relief />
RT @spanishmanners: Mailer is the purest exemplar of riding a shred of genuine talent into an abyss of bloviating literary self-indulgence.
The American Spectator : The New Humanism →
Instead of idealizing man, the new humanism denigrates God and attacks the belief in God as a human weakness. My parents too thought belief in God to be a weakness. But they were reluctant to deprive…
Why does the New Yorker keep publishing Woody Allen? His latest story about Madoff is just, well, sad. http://tr.im/schmuck
Great Fails in Science: Cold Fusion http://tr.im/coldf (Pons & Fleischmann now running a social media agency in Nice)…
The slow, inexorable crawl through draft sign-off…
“He is one of those people who can’t deal with the ambiguity if his headphones don’t have an L and an R printed on them…”
Yochai Benkler explains how freeing govt data can drive whatever it is that emerges from the media wreck http://tr.im/yochai
BSG + http://tinyurl.com/2dno9d Discuss…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-22) →
Jackie Orszaczky (19)
John Coltrane (7)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (7)
Mark Simmonds Freeboppers (7)
Miles Davis (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Howto: Easily Get newsgroup access over ipv6 →
Worth looking at…
How often does a record arrive 20 years ahead of its time? My Life in the Bush of Ghosts still sounds like it was released yesterday…