May 2009
Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on the Eee PC 901 |... →
…and another account of installing the Jaunty NBR on the 901.
Ubuntu Remix 9.04 on eeePC 901 →
Simple step through of the installation including partitioning hints…
Forget the Turing Test, the Singularity will have arrived when AI can crack cryptic crosswords…
Philosophical fellow is on edge, oddly (8)
Can a machine change your mind? →
“Which is why spatial correlation of a brain state with a mental state sounds even more disorientatingly weird than temporal correlation, horribly like a category mistake.”
Disappointed to see that @hell has been suspended; I was keen to see what it was like down there…
Of course, @heaven is as dull as you would expect…
Arch Linux Forums / Arch on Asus EEE 901 →
Arch forum thread on the Eee 901…
If I find myself more than 10 pages into a Google search I know I am either obsessed or deluded…
Recommending you people on Mr Tweet http://mrtweet.com/
Checking out Last.fm’s Jackie Orszaczky station. First track: Lester Bowie’s ‘I Only Have Eyes for You.’ Gold.
Asus Eee PC 901 - ArchWiki →
Arch configuration details for the 901 EEE PC
Caloundra, as well as sunshine, warm water & beach breaks, is blessed with an exceptional gelateria. Belissimo!
Carny people are vaguely terrifying. In Queensland there is nothing vague about it…
Off to Maleny for the A&P Show…
RT @plasmaegg checking out google wave http://is.gd/ItFm Google
Installing Arch Linux on the Asus EEE PC -... →
Typically thorough Arch wiki article for EEE PC…
DebianEeePC - Debian Wiki →
How to and reference for installing Debian on the EeePC…
Inspired by @trib at #govis09, I have just agreed to clamber up on the podium and do some more speaking this year…
Star Trek was entertaining. But the soundtrack was obviously the work of a Spinal Tap fan: 11 from go to whoa…
Off to see Star Trek at the Caloundra Cinema. After Anthony Lane’s scathing review in the New Yorker, my expectations are suitably modest…
Finally managed to track down a Linux EEEPC (901). That was a lot harder than it should have been…
Just read a blog post with 11 comments: not one left on the post page (7 pulled from Twitter, 4 from Digg)…
Microsoft’s comment on the outcome of the G2009 all-of-government negotiations http://tr.im/g2009
AUD350 for the original EEEPC: that sounds pretty reasonable, doesn’t it?
‘In America’ by Susan Sontag is so stultifyingly dull that reading it feels like performance art…
Pattern of the morning? Compose, reflect, delete…
Use VIM Like a Pro →
Good tutorial for Vim
http://twitpic.com/5wx1y - Customising Gwibber (beats watching TV)…
On this day in 1977, Star Wars is released in the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_wars launching the film as franchise movement…
“On Wikipedia, it’s the good guys who will hunt you down.” http://tr.im/w1k1 Review of ‘The Wikipedia Revolution’
Caloundra Library has Roberto Bolaño’s ‘The Savage Detectives.’ It is filed under mystery. I’ll be the locals find it mysterious…
Irrespective of the quality of the kit, I am resolved to not buy a Dell based on their crappy offshored VOIP ‘customer service.’ FAIL
Trying to talk to Dell about their new Linux Netbook http://tr.im/mhQE Surpisingly, no-one wants to talk to me…
Staying in a house with a TV is a reminder of the astounding volumes of crap broadcast every hour of every day…
Doesn’t think much of the hype around Wolfram alpha; and even less of the application…
David Brooks on brilliant American books http://tr.im/mf0j “Along the way, his writing will outstrip his reportage…”
I’m back online! Seems I had to disable to ipv6 to get Debian 5 to talk to the world. And I was blaming Queenslanders…
Queensland drivers are illiterate munters. Keep left UNLESS overtaking you redneck dribblers…
Roh Moo-hyun, former President of South Korea, suicide note an unintended exemplar of bathos http://tr.im/mbim FAIL
On a night like this pizza really deserves a hashtag #pizza
Vote for your favourite @sourceforge project http://bit.ly/INoNv Community Choice Awards 2009
Dell Latitude 2100 Netbook Product Details →
New Dell netbook that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 pre-installed. Finally (only available in Australia?)
I love the way that tr.im now picks up my shortened urls directly from my twitter stream (using OAuth). Very cool…
Lester Bowie, ‘Rios Negros.’ http://tr.im/ma14
The Herald have really gone to town on their P theme. Is today International Methamphetamine Day? Or is it just routine fearmongering?
Home after #govis09 and the tweetup. Now looking down the barrel of three weeks leave. How will I cope?
“Everything is better with a social network” @gnat dropping science… #govis09
Wishing @gnat’s presentation was parody… #govis09
Seems the private sector is eager for .govt.nz data feeds… #govis09