September 2009
Speed up Firefox’s page rendering http://j.mp/3t4qLV
New desktop for the EeePC… http://flic.kr/p/73FuNJ
Oh dear! RT @NathanaelB: Microsoft / Government 2.0 Taskforce draft contract: http://is.gd/3NMih #openaustralia #gov2au
The end of keys & buttons? http://j.mp/17Jmad Not frickin’ likely: I can’t see geeks giving up their ‘boards…
Wow! BUG Labs release a wi-fi module for their open source hardware http://j.mp/b2I8r Hackapalooza…
Meformer or informer? http://j.mp/TYfhD Survey with some earthshattering conclusions <pfft />
(Bonus photo of Tom Cruise looking particularly constipated in that last link. See, Scientology is bad for you)
Idios means ‘private’ in Greek. The original idiots wrere not interested in public affairs; sadly, that’s changed.
Enabling -verify in TTYtter; imy typing is embarrassing…
To rephrase @rands: if you’re arguing about the cost of software, you’re using the wrong kind…
Science blog network launched; they just forgot to put the url in the media r release http://j.mp/11R8qh
Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of... →
“And I wouldn’t change it for the world, because I’m an abject bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life…”
It’s depressing to open corp email and see ‘Outlook 2003.’ That’s not an outlook, it’s digital archaeology…
Adding a comment to @samfarrow’s post on social media and corporate comms http://j.mp/YZlEz
RT @linuxconfau: #LCA2010 Registrations will be opening within the next couple of weeks. Watch this space! www.lca2010.org.nz
RT @dubh: The best rant on computer operating systems EVAH! http://bit.ly/2Nv80s Gold!
Good post from @shel, with a very sad genesis, on respecting public servants… http://j.mp/4E5AUk
Doing some (admittedly OCD’ish) conky reconfiguration…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Herbie Hancock (5)
Graham Central Station (3)
Sonny Sharrock (3)
Jaco Pastorius (3)
Nicky Skopelitis & Sonny Sharrock (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Good profile of Netflix http://j.mp/mJtoY Case study of disruptive media in action…
Losing patience with a help vampire on the arch forum; how many ways can you tell someone to read the wiki?
Seems in the last 24 hours I have sent 4000 tweets: sorry about that… (if you missed any, they were all good)
Low points in popular culture #107: synthesized whale sounds in 80’s music…
Murray Gell-Mann on Feynman, “he spent a great deal of effort generating anecdotes about himself.” http://j.mp/11pc3O
Will the war on piracy go the same way as the war on drugs? http://j.mp/1IzLgu It will probably cost as much…
Trying to configure a family members’ router over the phone. This may call for a site visit…
Vodafone website is borked: java.net.ConnectException Can someone please sort that out?
Nabokov’s ‘Laura’ - another of the veils lifted http://j.mp/OxKzb
Windows 7 party how-to video http://j.mp/g5kvv & I thought it couldn’t get worse than the vomit ad…
Why isn’t there a $distro.mirror.govt.nz?
Making IE less secure? http://j.mp/1J2uzN Isn’t that just semantics…
RT @glynmoody: Air traffic control radar display published as open source - http://bit.ly/3avNdL just what every desktop needs #opensource
Playing with PyTyle on Openbox http://pytyle.com/wiki/Main_Page
Google Sidewiki: making another mountain out of a knol hill? http://j.mp/Tesa6
The Lily Allen copyright farago keeps getting funnier http://j.mp/1oVaQ
Where the paywall _should_ be erected: talking head’s salary more than NPR programme budget http://j.mp/WXu27
‘Architected’ may be in the OED, but that doesn’t make you any less of a tosser for using it in a meeting…
Is _anyone_ else out there using Conkeror as their browser of choice?
Off to the GOVIS AGM (and running late)…
New Zealand moved 209m north overnight http://www.topo50.govt.nz Here we come!
Wondering when twitter will fix the xmpp gateway…
Practical steps to eliminate human suffering #246: ban drum solos… Immediately.
“A balanced view of creationism” http://bit.ly/50MY5 Just for the lulz… via @hollowaynz
I’m looking for a designer to do some work on a WordPress blog. DM me if you know anyone/are keen yourself…
Bible belt in a lather over Darwin bio-pic http://j.mp/y1lWL Charles Darwin’s legacy is described as “mass murder.” Morons.
Ending Africa's Hunger →
Microsoft, Monsanto: GE and intellectual property in Africa…
Schoolgirl on train with an ‘I <3 Public Sector’ badge. Govt 2.0 apocheir?
Lucid Lynx? I was counting on Lysergic Llama…
Larry Lessig’s new Change Congress ad is a corker http://j.mp/oLMlc
At Software Freedom Day: finally managed to connect to the wireless network… #sfdwlg09