April 2009
Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With... →
How to back up and restore hard drives and partitions with CloneZilla Live. A Linux Live-CD that contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools. The created images are compressed and can…
There is a ‘Best of Laura Braningan’?
Learn the DD command - LinuxQuestions.org →
Good examples of dd
Having an extraordinarily good day: 3-0
Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse →
Picador (1972), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 160 pages
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse →
Penguin Books Ltd (1969), Paperback, 256 pages
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert →
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd (1979), Paperback, 510 pages
The Odyssey by Homer →
Penguin Classics (1950), Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse →
Penguin Books Ltd (1972), Paperback, 520 pages
Knulp by Hermann Hesse →
Macmillan (1974), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 128 pages
Doors of Perception: Heaven & Hell by Aldous... →
HarperCollins (UK) (1977), Paperback, 144 pages
One of life’s little disappointments: finding out that @petersinger follows Oprah…
Press release from NZOSS on G2009 Negotiations... →
Don Christie calls for a different approach…
Why isn’t Umberto Eco on Twitter? Because he couldn’t say anything in less than 140 words…
‘It’s all about the Story’? I was sort of hoping that my news would be all about the truth…
Slavoj Zizek is on Twitter? @zizekspeaks That’ll raise the tone…
Got the microphone working in Skype on Jaunty: just need to clone partition images of a perfect install & I am done…
Bio
Jason is the Manager, Communications and Records Management at the State Services Commission. He is also the only head of communications in New Zealand’s public service that compiles from source.
In his time at the Commission, Jason has been an advocate for the use of social media in the public sector. He has written extensively on Govt 2.0 and the social and cultural impact of Internet...
Why, in the age of the interwebs, do people still sit at their desks playing Solitaire? It just tells me you are lazy and stupid…
LVM made easy | TuxRadar →
Perhaps when I upgrade to 10.04…
I think describing yourself as ‘authoring’ a blog is just mildly overstating the case…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Flying Lotus (9)
Eric B. & Rakim (7)
Graham Central Station (5)
David Murray (3)
Art Ensemble of Chicago (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“X is a proven CMS solution in production since 2001 by business users across many verticals.” Really? No, *really*!?
Just did a very ordinary bit of audio for RNZ: hoping that the editor is ruthless…
Would really appreciate a moratorium on blog posts about the number of people now using Twitter. I get it, it’s fscking huge…
‘An Hour of Golden Yodels’ in the Warehouse CD sale bin. Only 6.99 for sixty minutes of yodelling? That’s why its called the bargain bin…
All applications reinstalled, Jaunty humming along. Now, time for a celebratory dhosa…
Cup of roobois tea and a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04. Pretty good Sunday morning…
“The revolution is just a t-shirt away”
Using jigdo to pull down Ubuntu 9.04 from local mirrors. CityLink FTW!
ANZAC Day, by John Forbes http://tr.im/jETU
One of the joys of having your phone number all over the internets is the random calls from Agitated of Waikanae…
Top 10 Measurements for Transparency — Sunlight... →
From the Gov20 camp: 10 measures of variable efficacy…
SSC guidance for public servants on social media http://tr.im/jzpC Nice work@mattlane
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel... →
Penguin Classics (1981), Paperback, 368 pages
Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William... →
Picador, 1983. Paperback, 420 pages.
The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales by Nathaniel... →
Penguin Classics (1970), Paperback, 384 pages
The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories by... →
Signet Classics (1963), Paperback
Judge of the Pirate Bay case was a board member of a copyright lobby group? http://tr.im/jyb2
Norström (the judge) doesn’t see a conflict of interest; but he is the least qualified to be making that call…
Discovering the joys of uninstalling an application installed from source. They don’t mention this in the ads…
The New Atlantis » Why Minds Are Not Like... →
The Chinese Room debate points to the salient questions underlying the common discussions about whether a computer can be made to think. It is incumbent upon participants in these discussions to make more responsible and clear use of their knowledge of the nature of computers, and, more importantly, to explicitly argue for their implicit claims about the ways in which the mind is or is not like...
Roddy Frame covering Van Halen...
New Mixes - House, Trance, Techno, Drum and bass,... →
BBC Radio 1 remixes. Downloadable MP3s. Gold.
Listening to some Flying Lotus http://www.myspace.com/flyinglotus
Quick: new land grab! CEO experts (Credibility Engine Optimisation)? http://tr.im/jnFK Get in early to tout your thought leadership…
Good god! @nzlemming has joined the fray…
Seeing Twitter described as a ‘pot of gold’ by an ‘Internet Marketer.’ It’s only 9am & I feel soiled…