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Bookmarks for June 24th through August 12th

GaZ — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:05:09 +0000

Here’s what I’ve been reading between June 24th and August 12th:

Bookmarks for May 2nd through May 8th

GaZ — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:00:04 +0000

Here’s what I’ve been reading between May 2nd and May 8th:

InfoQ: Distributed Version Control Systems: A Not-So-Quick Guide Through - Useful reference for when evaluating DVCS options in the future
Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera - Useful software hack for certain Canon cameras. If only I wasn't such a Sony-whore…
But I'll seriously consider a Powershot next time I'm thinking of upgrading cameras.
Ned Batchelder: CSS Homer, animated - An image of homer simpson, using only CSS. Awesome!
DocWiki2.4: Security - Notes on the the new security model for JSPWiki
Schema-aware processing with XSLT 2.0 -

Bookmarks for April 29th through May 1st

GaZ — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:12:34 +0000

Here’s what I’ve been reading between April 29th and May 1st:

Coding Horror: The Great Dub-Dub-Dub Debate - I mentioned this issue a while back: http://garethwestern.com/archives/2007/02/05/no-www/
MyP2P.eu :: Live sports and Now Playing overview. -
Kraken Botnet Infiltration -
Owning Kraken Zombies, a Detailed Dissection -
The Emerging Main Street Web -

Bookmarks for April 27th through April 29th

GaZ — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:04:38 +0000

Here’s what I’ve been reading between April 27th and April 29th:

How to install RESTful Authentication on a Ruby on Rails 2.0 application -
SQL Injection Attacks on IIS Web Servers - BillS IIS Blog -
Google App Engine: One-to-many JOIN -
Mariah Carey Embarrassed on Good Morning America Live - "Stop singing my part now, baby!" lol
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush pokes fun at his successors - US President George W Bush poked fun at his potential successors during his last White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
Why does Brightkite only work for the US? -

Bookmarks for April 24th through April 26th

GaZ — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:00:28 +0000

Here’s what I’ve been reading between April 24th and April 26th:

Mystery of the Rising Tune video - The bass notes are going down in pitch while the treble goes up. That way, when you replay it, the bass is high again and your brain registers this is as the 'whole' sound being higher for the next round.
MediaWiki -
10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu - Useful tips to remember for Ubuntu installs
Balding penguin given wetsuit - a penguin gets a new waterproof tuxedo. Altogether now: awww
5 a side seekers, Birmingham :: crowdstatus.com - could be useful for finding more football games to play in Birmingham
Robert Scoble Needs to Get Real : The Drama 2.0 Show - oh noes! forget "digital divide"… it's the great "friend divide"!

Bookmarks for April 22nd through April 24th

GaZ — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:06:11 +0000

Here’s what I’ve been reading between April 22nd and April 24th:

Ubuntu 8.04 Brings Power and Polish to the Linux Desktop - must get parents to try this out to see if it's a good alternative to Vista
SopCast - Free P2P internet TV -
MythTV for iPhone -
Reading binary files using Ajax -
Touch Bionics shows off Fluidhand, i-LIMB hides in shames - Engadget -

More Updates!

GaZ — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:34:12 +0000

It seems I’ve been failing to deliver on my promises to pay more attention to this blog and keep it a bit more up-to-date, and all that. It just takes a bit too much of my time and effort to write down a “feature length” blog post these days. I don’t want to abandon this altogether, so I’ve added a couple of plugins to link the blog with my main accounts on Twitter and Del.icio.us.

Twitter is a sort of micro-blogging / social networking tool that allows you to post short updates via the web, various desktop applications (such as twhirl, or SMS. The ease of use and accessibility makes it so much easier to keep your status a little more “current.” My Twitter username is gareth.

Del.icio.us is a bookmarking website, allowing you to store, tag, and share interesting websites with other users. The Firefox add-on makes adding new bookmarks a snap! My del.icio.us username is gareth_western.

Now the plugins I’ve added to this blog will post daily digest messages containing my tweets and bookmarks of the day! Originally I was thinking of doing something similar to hesam and removing the blog, however I’d still like to throw out a proper blog post every now and then. I may even get around to doing my own Wordpress theme one of these days!… or maybe not ;).

UPDATE: Ok, after a bit of thought I think I agree with this guy regarding posting tweet digests to a blog. I don’t really need to archive all that crap, and the fact that a lot of the tweets are only half the conversation is annoying. It’s like an IRC log of just yourself! So now I’ll just have my last 3 tweets in the sidebar, thereby decreasing my “new media douchebag” rating slightly.

Bookmarks for January 11th through April 22nd

GaZ — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:01:31 +0000

Here’s what I’ve been reading between January 11th and April 22nd:

Åpner Thomas-Land - Reise - Dagbladet.no -
Welcome on Weewar.com -
twittervision local (beta) :: unitedkingdom -
PollDaddy Twitter Polls - Send a poll directly to your Twitter! -
Synoptic - "Gmail for your notes?"
Make your own book with Blurb -
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe -

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-21

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:59:59 +0000

can haz fone bill? oh noes! #
lolz @ http://xkcd.com/413/ #
I keep dreaming
that I have it all
I’m always waiting
for that something more #
is glad to see they finally removed those stupid revolving doors at cen. square entrance to the library! #
@amitkoth aha! about time you started tweeting again #
@amitkoth yup! Still up here, working hard (and yet hardly working ;)) #
is bogged down in legacy-code hell #

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-20

GaZ — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:59:59 +0000

is working out the best way to get home #
@hesam made it to birmingham airport. Thanks for the hospitality! Good set! Cheerio! #
is on the stoptrein to erdington. Zzzzzz #
is on the train, not on the bus #
must sleep now #