Archive for October, 2007
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007According to Stewart Greenhill, I am "the friendly face of the evil empire Nick “professional geek” Hodge"
Lulz.
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Last week South Australia celebrated Water Week. As a previous resident in the driest state on the driest continent, water and water conservation was drilled into us from a young age. The current water restrictions in many states pale into insignificance compared to living on a farm with limited water supplies.
Geeks for Good is a [...]
Toshiba Hard Disk Upgrade
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007As my internal 100Gb hard disk on the Toshiba M400 (T2400) had only 5% free space: even after archiving photos and podcasts, I could not reduce the free space to under 10%.
Time for a new HD. Purchased from Auspcmarket, 200Gb 7200 RPM Seagate Momentum drive.
As much as this Toshiba has limitations that are starting to [...]
SubSonic goes LOLCODE (and Microsoft)
Monday, October 29th, 2007Rob Conery, ASP.NET guru, has found LOLCODE.
He's even translated Northwinds to LOLCODE.
Oh, and on another note: Rob Conery is joining Microsoft.
Thanks, Nickhac for the link and lulz!
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Steve Jobs. Presenting EOF, PDO, WebObjects, Excel, Windows NT 3.5
In-browser Python: Silverlight + IronPython
Where is your ISP POP?
Sunday, October 28th, 2007An interesting mashup sent to me by Nicholas Key. Using GoogleMaps, it shows you the location of your internet service provider's Point-of-Presence.
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Australian Politics on G’day World 299.
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Debating with Cameron Reilly is like fighting an intellectual tornado. Thankfully I was being grilled after a bottle of merlot.
In the instance of this podcast, I am speaking for myself not my employer (which I make clear in the podcast)
In retrospect, the discussion could go on for another 30 minutes: the concept of Geeks for [...]
PodcampPerth07
Saturday, October 27th, 2007The Perth posse have it down. They know how to organise community meetups, get the people along and exchange information.
Some months ago, the Perth contingent cared enough about having Podcamp in their city, they outvoted other larger cities. And the result was another well run, well attended and though provoking event.
Apart from the personal name [...]
SCOOP! Fake Steve Jobs video on on10.net
Friday, October 26th, 2007Editor of http://on10.net/, Larry Larsen gets the scoop exclusive: Fake Steve Jobs interviewed on the Microsoft campus.
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Podcamp Perth
Friday, October 26th, 2007I am in Perth all weekend. Talking the world of podcasts, vid/vodcasts, blogging and other stuff.
Don't be shy! Come and say hello.
Thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring; and the other sponsors as above too.
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Duncan Riley, On The Pod #9
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Thanks to Duncan Riley for a great conversation today - now On The Pod, on The Podcast Network.
Articles mention: Jeff Sandquist in the April 2007 Wired.
"The heat internal being 70x" is a littler hyperbolic - more like 70% of the heat is internal when blogger steps outside our blogging guidelines. Some notes on our Policy [...]
