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links for 2005-07-12

  • How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition
    (tags: howto diet)
  • This is needed: gps-receiver, backpack with laptop(Tatonka Serverpack with Gateway Solo 2500), keyboard, trackball (from old broken laptop), helmet (giro switchblade) with display (old viewfinder)
    (tags: coolshit hack)
  • A round-robin, all city, 24/7 water-gun assassination tournament
    (tags: coolshit)

Great Moments in Instant Messaging

[some_moron]: Hi David!
[some_moron]: Are you there?
[me]: Hi. Yes, I am. That’s why my status isn’t “away”
[some_moron]: Oh, great!
[some_moron]: Can I call you?
[some_moron]: What’s you’re number?
[me]: You’re already talking to me now. Why do you have to call me?
[some_moron]: Because, I need to ask you some questions
[me]: And this can’t be done over IM?
[me]: *sigh* OK…

Why oh why do people time and time again do this to me? If you want to call me, just call me! Don’t IM me, then ask me if you can call me. It’s completely redundant FFS. If I can’t speak to you on IM, there’s a pretty good chance (like a 100% chance) that I can’t speak to you on the phone.

And asking for my number. At work we have this really nice corporate whitepages system, which some poor group of developers have spent lots and lots of their time, coding, so that people don’t have to do dumb stuff like send emails (which already have signatures with phone numbers of the people that they’re asking the number of) or IM’s asking what somebody’s number is.

These tools are there to make like easier… use them!

links for 2005-07-07

The DJ’s on the box again…

So if you’ve got nothing to do (or you do have something to do, but want something waaay better) you can hear me djing down at Goodbar on Oxford St in Darlinghurst this Friday night for the opening night of Floppy Disko. I’ll be dropping a stack of hip house for about an hour and a half (that’s three times more hip house than I got to play at Jack Your Body!!), so if you’re feeling you want to move, jump, jack your body, git on up!

OK, so after upselling myself, I should also mention the rest of the Floppy Disko night. Other far more capable dj’s are The Lost Boys: (Sex Worker, Complex, Skreech & Black Eyed Boy), OSC-001, Junior & more. Also playing live are the Death Set, Cherry 2000. They describe it as a night of limp electro, flacid acid, lax funk, soft cock rock & relaxed grooves, so it should be a fun, mixed up kinda night.

Its $10 on the door, or free if you get one of their dope invites.

links for 2005-06-23

  • Monopod is a simple podcast client.
  • PUSSH is a wrapper for the SSH client consisting of two Python modules for usage on networks or clusters with lots, or several hosts, ideally wherein SSH is configured with Kerberos or RSA/DSA keys in such a way as to avoid any password authentication.
  • A community directory of freely available music
    (tags: podcasting mp3)
  • Better podcast delivery through PodNova. Search or browse the biggest podcast directory, single click subscribing, OPML support and synchronization.
    (tags: podcasting mp3)
  • LugRadio is a fortnightly British radio show that takes a relaxed, humorous look at Linux and open source.

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