June 2009
Ubuntu One in action http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonwryan/3674076583/
…and the Russian spammers have arrived on Twitter. Das vidanya comrade..
RT: WA spend more money on lotto for tonight’s draw than ever before and it is gamble responsibly week (via @nickobec)
Sharing my conky config with someone who found it on flickr…
Re. co-authored fiction, so far the only tempting suggestion is ‘Q’ by Luther Blissett (via @normnz)…
Is there a single co-authored work of fiction worth reading? I’m struggling to think of one…
It seems science fiction/fantasy is a genre susceptible to co-authoring. Perhaps just the weight of the imaginative burden?
My Ubuntu One invite just arrived http://ubuntuone.com/ w00t!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
Sly & The Family Stone (9)
James Carter (8)
Mark Simmonds (7)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (7)
David Murray (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Hacked #twittering-mode to highlight replies… Perfect.
Arch Linux Forums / eee 'super hybrid engine' and... →
Script to control the power saver on the Eee PC - and extend battery life…
Uninstalling Adobe Air and Tweetdeck… Back to a FOSS desktop.
New survey shows that bloggers are ethical http://tr.im/q5Xn
I love the way ranters in forums give themselves nicks like ‘level headed’ Like we needed a pointer…
Slashdot has an update on Munich’s migration to FOSS http://tr.im/q5gt
Arch Linux Forums / Post your handy self made... →
Bash scripts from users. Gold.
Chucho Valdés: keeping piano tuners in constant work since 1950 http://bit.ly/140tWt
Taking on the RIAA is one thing, fscking with Google a completely different prospect http://tr.im/q1SL Pirate Bay to take on YouTube…
Thanks to @juhasaarinen, just read up on the Editor war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
Finally getting around to looking at the judging criteria for the ONYAs - just in time, eh @maupuia?
One of the joys of using Emacs? It has it’s own psychotherapist, ELIZA http://tr.im/q1ld
Head of journalism at AUT sceptical about Twitter’s ability to deliver information - better at speed & emotion
“The people have twittered.” Oh dear.
Watching Media7 on social media ‘revolution’ in Iran…
RT: Blog post: Does government information want to be free? Discussion of NZ govt info policy vs Web 2.0 principles. http://tr.im/q0zn ( …
‘Synecdoche, New York;’ like Peter Greenaway on ecstasy…
Tossing up between ‘Synecdoche, New York’ and ‘Frost & Nixon’…
Foreign language tweeters seem to prefer exclaiming over hashing !keywords…
Jaunty 9.04 Sound Solutions - Ubuntu Forums →
Troubleshooting guide…
From the department of stating the bleeding http://tr.im/0bvi0us Social media is about trust?
Are Govt 2.0 ‘experts’ the new social media douche bags?
OK: looks like I have found my Twitter client of choice. Emacs FTW!
RT @00k Emacs. It’s not an editor, it’s an operating system…
Some Friday night geekery http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonwryan/3661524975/
Testing identica-mode from Emacs: this is _very_ cool…
Wondering if there is a reasonably full featured Twitter mode for Emacs…
Nethazard.net \\ Identi.ca from Emacs →
A script to publish to Identi.ca…
Consult and engage | NPSC Blog →
A look at IRD’s student loans consultation forum. An excellent initiative to engage their publics over critical policy issues…
Struggling to reacquaint myself with WordPress and HTML. It’s like falling off a bike…
I really appreciate blog posts asking me to update my RSS reader: it inevitably leads to the delete button…
EmacsWiki: twit.el →
Twitter client for emacs…
Swedish Pirate Bay judge not biased - but still a serious conflict of interest… http://tr.im/pM1v
Mitter is nice and fast but it has no replies tab. Next…
Choqok has more functionality - but I can’t get it to connect to Identi.ca (and the KDE dependencies are way too heavy…
Giving mitter a test run…
A cup of roiboos tea and Herbie Hancock’s ‘Maiden Voyage.’
Corporate torture? Everytime I open my browser (IE7, locked down) Google has the giant ‘Install Google Chrome’ button taunting me…
Listening to Mockingbirds by Grant Lee Buffalo on Grooveshark: http://tinysong.com/2UJO
Proof that life is happening elsewhere http://tr.im/pyka (the lineup of this festival is just. fucking. amazing…)