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Archive for April, 2008

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A ghost on twitter

Monday, April 21st, 2008

It seems people are missing my tweets.
I say stuff, and very few people can see me.
Other people are missing.
As Allison blogs: “The day that twitter died”
Thankfully, today was a busy day. Productivity level good.

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General Melchett goes 45nm

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Time to save some electrons. On yet another whim, I purchased a new Intel Q9300 processor for General Melchett, replacing the venerable Q6600.
The CPU temperature seems to have dropped by 9degC, whilst the performance (12Gb video encode using Expression Encoder) is within a margin of error the same. The Q9300 is 4% faster. I think [...]

EEE.TV via Bigpond NextG

Friday, April 18th, 2008

As a recent fan of micro-TV stations, and live podcasting audiences; and as an owner of an ASUS EEE PC, it was time to join the dots.

After installing the Bigpond Next G software for the USB card I own (note: this is the slower NextG as well) over to ustream.tv and broadcast away.
This makes an [...]

Laurel Papworth: On Morning TV

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Laurel, Australia’s expert on Social Networks has appeared on Australian Morning TV
Don’t forget us little people when you become famous, Laurel!
(This is Laurel before she became MSM famous)

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Loosely Coupled Communities Across Space and Time

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

 
From Glenn Derene, wiring at Popular Mechanics in “How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It”
… with the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Second Life, LinkedIn and even Google’s own Orkut, the next generation of Web users may find what they want by using their social network [...]

I love small surprises

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The above is a shrunken screen-shot from my ASUS EEE PC. (aka PrinceEdmund) Yes, this is 1024x768 goodness projected externally from the VGA connector.
There is a future in these devices.

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quokka.two: LOLCODE Contractor

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

DG hires a wizened LOLCODE contractor to complete the low-level code for a new web site.

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Eight Random Facts About Nick Hodge

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

 
Following an old meme Stilgherrian and fellow Munge Brother, Uncle Dave Wallace dredged up and tagged me, and Frank Arrigo: god bless his Saint Kilda socks also tagged me. So here’s eight random facts about me.
The rules:

Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
People [...]

Mark Pesce: Keynoting Australian ReMIX 2008

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Credit: Darren Sharp
This year's keynote speaker at Australia’s second ReMIX is Mark Pesce. Like LOLCODE, Mark has his own, well deserved Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce
Australians in the internet community would recognise Mark from his copious writings on freedom, email, free/meshed wireless. He is a thought leader amongst thought leaders in this web-centric world.
I've seen Mark present [...]

quokka.two: lamingtons + quokka-cola

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

DG is getting his Developer track ready for the second Australian ReMIX. Fueled by lamingtons and Quokka-Cola, there is a storm of XAML building.
Seats are going fast! Book today!

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