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Pam’s grannie on TV

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:47:08 +1300

Pam’s grannie on TV

Daniel doing steps

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:32:28 +1300

Daniel doing steps

The case against IBM, continued

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:25:25 +1300

The case against IBM, continued:

See, when there’s only one mainframe company in the world, and they’ve locked most of their customers into long-term outsourcing contracts, and in some cases they don’t just run the data…

SPF Query Tool

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:06:41 +1300

SPF Query Tool

Video

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:58:45 +1200

Build your iPhone a dock from its own box

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:51:31 +1200

Build your iPhone a dock from its own box:

Filed under: Accessories, Hacks, Mods, iPhone, iPod touch

As the product of frugal New England Yankees, I like items that multi-task. If said item is something that could…

Quake Live For Mac Launches Tomorrow

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:07:13 +1200

Quake Live For Mac Launches Tomorrow:

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cool!

August 17, 2009 6:00 AM

Speaking at the QuakeCon 2009 event id CEO Todd Hollenshead recently revealed that Quake Live will finally be released on August 18 for Mac and…

No soup for you

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:21:31 +1200

No soup for you:

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Soup Nazi awesomeness

Ebay warns of Skype shutdown

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:01:14 +1200

Ebay warns of Skype shutdown:

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Is Ebay even capable of developing p2p software? They seem too big to develop anything like that.

Intellectual property disputye drags on

Pro Git

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:17:33 +1200

Pro Git:

This is the website for the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and published by Apress. Here you can find the full content of the book, a blog with tips and updates about Git and the book and open…

DMC-TZ7GN

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:11:54 +1200

DMC-TZ7GN:

This looks like a very cool camera. Records HD video too.

The Cathedral and the Pirate

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:14:54 +1200

The Cathedral and the Pirate:

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Interesting article, worth a read.

The impact of the Google Chrome OS, told through (probably excessive) metaphor.

First Person UI: Nearest Tube

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:47:35 +1200

First Person UI: Nearest Tube:

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That’s incredible!

One of the first first person UI apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore. Nearest Tube tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhone’s…

INPA Passport Record Bureau. Find your passport in our international passport database

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:11:22 +1200

INPA Passport Record Bureau. Find your passport in our international passport database:

INPA Passport Record Bureau. Find your passport in our international passport database

Source: www.scrolllock.nl

Welcome to the World Passport Record Bureau web site - where you can…

git ready » learn git one commit at a time

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:10:08 +1200

git ready » learn git one commit at a time

Deploying Acts as Solr on Tomcat with Rails

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:44:29 +1200

Deploying Acts as Solr on Tomcat with Rails:

At Radio NZ we have a number of small Rails applications that need really good search. In several cases we want field-based searching.e.g. title:”A Blog Post”to look only in the field ‘title’ for “A…