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Adam Kent — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:15:22 +0000

Links for 06 August 2008

Adam Kent — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:41:50 +0000

Leaving Yahoo - Chad Dickerson: "I'm leaving Yahoo! to pursue another very exciting opportunity: joining the Etsy team as CTO." (tags: blogpost etsy yahoo)
AP News - Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web - "How unusual is it for a 71-year-old American to be unplugged?" (tags: internet mccain politics usa)
Freighter Travel - Internet Guide to Freighter Travel - (tags: cargo freighter passenger ship transport)
Information Arbitrage: Monitor110: A Post Mortem - "1: The lack of a single, "the buck stops here" leader until too late in the game. 2: No separation between the technology organization and the product organization." (tags: failure management startup)
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - Boston.com - Some amazing photos of CERN's Large Hadron Collider and associated equipment… but "I have my crowbar ready for any unforseen consequences" … (tags: photography cern physics)
Liminal Existence: Announcing Jabber::Simple - The Twitter Jabber bot back in 2006: "So far we're running just a single instance, and it's doing fine. Scaling will happen later, and there are a number of mechanisms for doing it elegantly." … and where the hell is it now!!? (tags: jabber twitter bot programming)
Eatability - La Disfida Sydney - Pizza in Haberfield (tags: pizza restauraunt food sydney)
There’s a large hole in the plane: pilot - smh.com.au - "There is a big hole in the belly of the aircraft near the right wing about three metres in diameter…" (tags: newsarticle travel qantas aeroplane accident)
A Guide to Cheap Snacks in Manhattan’s Chinatown | Serious Eats : New York - MMm, dumplings! (tags: food nyc usa chinese dumplings)
allconsuming: The seven hour roast lamb - "This lamb is officially called Le Gigot D'Agneau De Montgeoffroy… marinate for 24 hours, turning when you remember… preheat oven to 120C …" (tags: recipe blogpost lamb roast cooking)

Links for 25 June 2008

Adam Kent — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:24:42 +0000

Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Better get on with fixing this, we've only got 30 years… (tags: c code computers software unix y2k)
Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition - Free Visual Studio, nice… (tags: c++ development free microsoft)
Hanoi crazy night traffic on Vimeo (tags: timelapse traffic video vietnam)
iBanjo - Programmer Insecurity - "[Some] programmers don't want their peers to see mistakes or failures. They want to work privately, in a cave, then spring "perfect" code on their community, as if no mistakes had ever been made." (tags: codereview collaboration programming scm)

Algorithm Geeks | Google Groups (tags: algorithms programming)
Amazon.com: Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable: Electronics - The $500 ethernet cable (tags: audio denon funny ripoff)

Anzac bridge fog

Adam Kent — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:32:51 +0000

Incredible fog in Sydney last Thursday on the drive into work…

Links for 14 June 2008

Adam Kent — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:30:55 +0000

Last-gasp win for Swans as Eagles falter - 8 June 2008 - "Sydney had to come from a 36-point half-time deficit to win this one, yet win it the Swans did — 12.11 (83) to 11.12 (78) — hitting the front for the first time in the match at the 32-minute mark of the final term…" (tags: afl newsarticle sydneyswans)
Patak’s Lime Pickle - It still exists! My local Coles have stopped stocking this, damn them! (tags: coles indian lime pataks pickle)
Deep-Dish Sausage and Tomato Pizza on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - One damn good looking home made pizza. (tags: food photography pizza slashfood)
Big Ideas (don’t get any) on Vimeo - Radiohead's "Nude" reproduced by printers, scanners, old hard drives (tags: music printers radiohead remix retro)
Interactive Polyline Encoder Utility - Google Maps API - Google Code - (tags: api google mapping)
l33t eye chart on Flickr - OMG WTF STFU PWN3D URAN00B LMAOROTF KTHXBYE:P — If you can read this, ur eyez r teh l337. (tags: eyechart funny)
10 paths to painless pizza-making | smitten kitchen - (tags: cooking food italian pizza tips)
TWoP Single Page Recaps – Userscripts.org - "Combines TWoP's multi-page recaps into one page." (tags: greasemonkey television)
programming: Ask Reddit: What’s the most beautiful piece of publically available source code you saw? - Powerset functions in python using generators (tags: powerset programming python)

Links for 07 June 2008

Adam Kent — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:42:58 +0000

APOD: 2008 June 4 - Chasing the ISS - Timelapse of the space shuttle discovery catching up with the ISS, from earth, complete with an iridium flare! (tags: astronomy photography space timelapse)
Bug #226279 in linux (Ubuntu Hardy): “Kernel 2.6.24-17 - broken resume from suspend to RAM” - It sure is broken… extremely frustrating, particularly considering this is supposed to be a LTS release? (tags: bug linux ubuntu)
Flight 2 - Helium Baloon Mission to Near-Space - My project launched a payload with GPS, camera, sensors and communications to an altitude of 30km. (tags: electronics photography projects space)
Aza’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use - Such a clever idea: "I know that you visit: Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Del.icio.us, Slashdot, and Last.fm. It’s a bit scary, I know." (tags: howto javascript web2.0)
Simpsons/Futurama - Simpsons and Futurama universes collide… (tags: art comic futurama simpsons)

Links for 25 May 2008

Adam Kent — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:38:17 +0000

Main Page - Geo Hashing - (tags: gps wiki xkcd)
Giant ‘telescope’ links London, New York - CNN.com - Just plain cool. (tags: art installation internet webcam)
Ross Gittens - Pseudo battlers should get a grip | smh.com.au - "I, too, find that being a grumpy old man helps keep me going. And nothing annoys me more than hearing the comfortably off trying to convince themselves - and anyone who'll listen - they're really battlers." (tags: australia economics gittens politics taxation)
Budget 2008 - The Real Losers | newmatilda.com - The pregnant, alco-pop drinking luxury car driver. (tags: austraila budget cartoon politics)

Links for 17 May 2008

Adam Kent — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:22:15 +0000

Wired Review: Asus Eee PC 900 Is Even Better Second Time Around - I just want one! (tags: asus computer hardware laptop review)
Sony Bravia Play Doh Rabbits in New York | Duncan’s TV Ad Land - This really is a cool ad. (tags: advertising sony stopmotion)
Facebook Developers News - Using Facebook Chat via Jabber - "Right now we're building a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat." Nice one. (tags: facebook jabber xmpp)
1.50 australian dollars per litre in dollars per gallon - Google Search - … and Americans think $4 a gallon is expensive… (tags: australia energy petrol usa)
Phun - 2D physics sandbox - Wow. (tags: amazing physics science simulation)
Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange - Great idea; upload a file, get a tinyurl style URL for it, no accounts required, with optional password protection. (tags: online sharing tools upload)

Opera House and Glenmore Hotel

Adam Kent — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:35:34 +0000

Links for 14 May 2008

Adam Kent — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:53:20 +0000

Welcome — Little Bird Electronics - "We distribute the open-source physical computing platform called Arduino" (tags: arduino australia electronics hardware)
Common shell script mistakes - Some good tips here (tags: bash programming script shell tips)
Stevey’s Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back - (tags: dynamic languages python toread)
Instant Rimshot - Tell a bad joke, push the button. (tags: audio drumroll funny)
Déjà Vu Dining - New York Times - "There were no seats in the bar or waiting area, of course. They had long been snared by people who appeared to have taken up semipermanent residence and were perhaps even having their mail forwarded." (tags: franchise newsarticle restauraunt review)