links for 2007-04-21

Jeff Boulter’s Blog » The Name Game Naming a kid has got to be tough. It’s hard enough to name a computer.

links for 2007-04-19

Coyote Blog: I Can Fix the Water “Shortage” in Five Minutes Amen. Raise the price of water and demand will fall. And don’t even eye my Great Lakes. I put up with the cold to enjoy them, you hot southern bastards lie in the bed you made. The Benjamin Franklin Guide to Marketing Your Business Online | Copyblogger The Storage Forum: blog » ‘Small’ 5Mb Hard Disk in 1956 Finally, Common Event Expression (CEE) is Out!!! – O’Reilly Sysadmin …and it will be 15 years until syslog works with it, in a stable 1.0+ release, shipped by an OS vendor. Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson’s Response to Alex Payne’s Interview [dive …

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links for 2007-04-18

Matasano Chargen » FISMA Using Homeland Security Advisory System Nice. The Fishbowl: Newsfire Aftermath Amen. Look at VMware: no phone-home, no activation, selling a ton of software because they don’t give their customers a hard time. They’re in the business of making life easier, after all. From CSOonline.com: Navigating the PCI Standard

links for 2007-04-17

The Old New Thing : Code is read much more often than it is written, so plan accordingly Johnnie Moore’s Weblog: Code of conduct The Old New Thing : What’s the row of numbers on the copyright page of books? The Old New Thing : Email tip: People didn’t answer your first email for a reason Haidinger’s brush: the unknown sense » Enjoy the Perfect Shower Anywhere in the World…for $2.96 – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

links for 2007-04-12

Pearls Before Breakfast – washingtonpost.com Holy crap, virtuoso Joshua Bell busks in the L’Enfant Metro Station with his $3.5 million Stradivarius. Sweet! The Invisible Grip – Esquire.com Common Carrier Law ‘Getting Things Done’ In 60 Seconds

links for 2007-04-11

Jeff Boulter’s Blog » 10 Things I Hate About My MacBook Pro Bookmark Bliss: 10 Tools to help you select a Web 2.0 Color Palette by Fuzzy Future (tags: revisit) Hubert Jocham – Type & Design – www.hubertjocham.de – Type, Design, Brands (tags: revisit) 10 Powerism: The Art of Blog by Sun ZiLla gapingvoid: does everybody think you’re an idiot The Architect and Builder Dilemma » Aldenta: Web Nourishment

links for 2007-04-06

The UNIX Philosophy – Worse Than Failure DOING IT WRONG OMFG, that’s time well spent. Everyone is an Expert (at something) (tags: revisit)

links for 2007-04-05

AtomFilms: Star Wars Gangsta Rap Special Edition (tags: essential) Burger King Christmas Carol – ebaumsworld.com (tags: essential)

links for 2007-04-04

The Fishbowl: The Matrix Has You filehippo.com Update Client – filehippo.com Why in the flying hell can’t Microsoft or Apple come up with an API to do this? Your app tells a daemon how to check for updates via HTTP, and then a daemon checks once in a while to see if there are some. Cool Tool: Chain Mail Glove Nice, but still won’t help me when I hit my hand with a hammer. I need gloves that can predict the impending blow, scorch, or stab and react accordingly. 🙂