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Thursday 18th March 2010

Diagram that made sense when I made it

Sleep...

So I’m trying to sleep but I can’t, so I get out of bed and aimlessly wander around the house for half an hour; eventually I found myself drawn to the eerie glow of my laptop screen I forgot to turn off. For some reason I fired up OOo and started doodling this diagram, then went to pour a glass of water…

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Post #2666! Run away!!! I’m super cereal!

This latest Pointless Rubenerd Milestone blog post is so useless it should not be read by anyone. If you’re just seeing this summary, leave it and move on. If you’re subscribed in a blog reader and you can see the whole post, disregard it.

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What are your favourite browser plugins?

Macslocum over at O’Reilly Answers is asking people to submit their favourite browser plugins and extensions. No prizes for guessing which one I chose!

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2010.03.18 SegPub outages

SegPub outage, 2010.03.18 01.17

This morning’s intermittent Rubénerd outages were brought to you by Segment Publishing. They’re still miles better than Servage was, though that isn’t saying much.

Curiously, many of the outages over the last year have been around this time of day. I wonder if they do server maintenance around 00:00-02:00 Adelaide time, or whether it’s due to increased loads given it’s daylight in the US.

UPDATE: Іt’s now 10:42 and pages are still taking many long minutes to render. Time to move web hosts again?

Wednesday 17th March 2010

[Anime] The moe menace?

Responding to Bacon5200’s article The Moe Menace: A Matter of Degrees:

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The Paris Métro IKEA advertising stunt

Along with all the talk about IKEA decking out Paris Métro stations with couches and lamps as an advertising stunt, there have been a ton of comments that pretty much follow this formula: "That’d never work in New York, the subways here aren’t clean like the ones in Europe!"

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Only enabling 16 bit PCMCIA in a FreeBSD kernel?

A retro Xircom Ethernet PCMCIA card

As you’re probably aware by now, my current pet project is installing FreeBSD on my new (a relative term!) Libretto 70CT, and on today’s agenda is building a custom kernel with the right PCMCIA card support.

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Following Monnie instructions re: Conroy

Senator Conroy

Can someone like, go punch Conroy in the face? and by punch, I mean not, because that gets you in trouble. But maybe just grunt at him? ~ Monnie

Yo, Conroy! Mandatory-internet-filter this! *sock!*

Thanks for nothing UniSA

UniSA Virus Uh Oh

Please don’t ask me to elaborate on specifics just yet, I will once I’m safely enrolled somewhere else.

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Tuesday 16th March 2010

Fielding beats Ludlam, game over folks

No Filter, No Censorship, No Great Firewall of Australia

I just read this report on Somebody Think of the Children having just seen it commented on by Cameron Reilly on Twitter and shared by Alex in Google Reader. I’m speechless. Game over man, game over.

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