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Sep 10
Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/09/2010
- Segway Olympics – prototype run
- Segway Olympics – prototype run
- European Parliament All But Rejects ACTA
- My First Place On HGTV: How to Spend Your Next Thirty Years House Poor
- BugMeNot Lite Now Provides Anonymous Login Credentials in Chrome [Downloads]
- 10 fresh and lite jquery content sliders for web applications
- EEVblog #108 – Amazon Kindle 3 3G/WiFi Review
- Cyber-Offence is the New Cyber-Defense
- SweetSearch Finds Credible Research Sources for Students [Research]
- Email overload? Try Priority Inbox
- OpenHeatMap Turns Your Data into a Custom Heat Map [Maps]
- Get Lifehacker and Other Gawker Blogs in Your Ebook Reader [Ebooks]
- Start Enjoying an Organized Life Today [Quotables]
- From RepStrap to RepRap; a 3D printer is born
- Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration
- Repurposing an Old Computer for Any Room in the House [Computers]
- Scientific Computing with Python and SciPy: An Introduction – Scheduled for 9th-10th September
- Dammit I’ve been doing this ever since multiple inboxes came out (except I sorted it as ‘Important’,'Unsorted’,and ‘Someday’, which is working really well!
- Great Python training run by a friend and colleague. I’ll definitly be attending at least one of these soon to brush up my limited python-fu!
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Sep 10
Kindle 3G 3.0.2 Experience
Just under a month after ordering, with a shipping schedule fraught with manufacturing delays and pushed-back dispatch dates (Not complaining, I’m not the only one so everyone was shocked by the demand also) I recieved my new UK kindle 3g at 11 this morning. Continue reading →
23
Aug 10
Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/08/2010
- Why PulseAudio?
- The Freesound Project Aggregates Creative Commons Licensed Sound Effects [Sound Effects]
- ONE LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA
- Venting Frustration Will Only Make Your Anger Worse [Mindhacks]
- U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff – Bloomberg
- Dutch Hackers Create Wi-Fi Sniffing Drone
- Brett Domino: Bad Romance (Lady Gaga) – Korg Monotron and Kaossilator
- Brett Domino: Bad Romance (Lady Gaga) – Korg Monotron and Kaossilator
- Unsuck It Translates Awful Corporate Speak into Plain English [Office Culture]
- Embed Google Calendar on Your Linux Desktop [Linux]
- A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
- A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
- Geeks.com Provides Great Deals on Outdated Hardware [Shopping]
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice, but with money: another look at HFT
- What’s the Biggest Issue on the Internet Now?
- 08.02.2010
- How to Turn Your Android Phone into a Fully-Automated Superphone [Automation]
- 1dl.us Is a Swiss Army Knife of Web Utilities [Webapps]
- Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found
- “So the IMF is saying that closing the U.S. fiscal gap, from the revenue side, requires, roughly speaking, an immediate and permanent doubling of our personal-income, corporate and federal taxes as well as the payroll levy set down in the Federal Insurance Contribution Act.”
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“This is what happens when you run a massive Ponzi scheme for six decades straight, taking ever larger resources from the young and giving them to the old while promising the young their eventual turn at passing the generational buck.”
I’ve had the opportunity, for a while now, to relocate to the US. I have had various reasons for not doing so, but one of them is knowing that something drastic will happen to the US economy and way of life. Not knowing when is the problem however.
- Change this into a blimp and I’m sold… Might do this…
- I have been looking for this for years and, as usual, Lifehacker provides!
- As always Bruce has a clear and useful way to organise semantic data… Screw cryptography; he should just be the librarian of the net’s information!
- I just keep getting HFT related stories today!
- As usual, Ben manages to beat me to the punch (I had a nice draft on this subject nearly finished 
) but does it alot better than I would have! The technical and psychological issues with semantic web are far more difficult than I think most people realised, but we’re getting there… slowly
- Well, it had to happen eventually. This doesn’t mean tat its any easier to get INTO a network, but it does allow snooping on previously secure client-AP traffic.
23
Jul 10
Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/07/2010
- Google Doc Mount Puts Your Google Docs in Nautilus for Editing [Downloads]
- Google PhD Fellowships go international
- Use Chrome like a pro
- Android Development 101 – Part 1:Hello World
- Rachel Maddow’s Blonde Yearbook Picture [Most Likely To Succeed]
- App Inventor for Android
- MultiBootISOs Boots Multiple Operating Systems from a USB Drive [Downloads]
- MultiBootISOs Boots Multiple Operating Systems from a USB Drive [Downloads]
- Geocron lets Latitude automate your life, or at least your wife
- Android App Inventor lets you be the developer (video)
- Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]
- Groovy For Domain-Specific Languages
- Einztein Knowledge Network Catalogs Virtual Courses from Around the Web [Learning]
- Increase the Frequency Gmail Checks Your Other Email Accounts for New Mail [Gmail Tip]
- Follow Team HTC-Columbia on Google Maps
- Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help?
- Get Things Done at a Coffee Shop Without Annoying Everyone [Work From Anywhere]
- The Guide to Neuroscience for Social Engineers
- Unusual, Obscure, and Useful Linux Distros
- NeighborGoods is a Location-Based Lending and Borrowing Network [Web Utilities]
- Well, thats my monday afternoon sorted… I’ve been looking for just this sort of tool for weeks; drop in an ISO and it’ll work! Love it!
- Recently bought a new pendrive (after not having one for about 3 years) so these tools will definitely be useful!
- Very intriguing use of live public telemetry!
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Jun 10
Shared Items – 23/06/2010
- Learn to Prepare Tasty Five-Ingredient Meals in Under Ten Minutes [Cooking]
- Star Trek: Tik Tok [Video Mashup]
- RedShift Makes Your Screen Easier on the Eyes at Night [Downloads]
- Google releases command line tool for accessing Web services
- Five Tactics For Getting Sleep On Long-Distance Flights [Travel]
- Five Tactics For Getting Sleep On Long-Distance Flights [Travel]
– Every couple of months, when I’m planning another puddle jump, I say ‘this time I’ll plan to sleep on the plane’. Every couple of months, I don’t sleep on the plane. Hopefully this will help… Or maybe just few more whiskeys.
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Jan 11
Rant: Job Applications
Inspired by Barry Haughey’s recent facebook post;
Dear International Banking Conglomerates and other major employers,
I just spent 3 hours of my life writing custom cover letters, answering pointless assessment questions, and entering my ‘skillsets’ on 4 different occasions for an application for one job… Just gimme the bloody job already; you’re big enough and ugly enough to have been able to pick up all that infomation from either a) My extensive and detailed resume, b) my attached university transcript.
For companies whose bread and butter is data management and analysis, wise the hell up;
Why not just pull all the information from my LinkedIn page?
What about having a standardized assessment test that everyone can use, and do, ONCE, and then you pull their score from that profile?
What about taking all that time that people waste putting THE SAME INFORMATION over and over and over again, and using that time to, I dunno, study to get a better degree?
That way, you get the BEST candidates, not the ones who spray their CV’s around like a bedwetting ADHD-sufferring 5 year old.
Yours Exhaustedly
Andrew Bolster