Rubénerd!

I'm commenting on this news story exactly one year after my post about Dropbox. Freaky!

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For those of you with existing student cards wishing to embark on a grand quest to update your transport concession sticker:

1. Enrol into at least one semester of subjects.
2. Go to this form site and enter your student details.
3. Log into My Student Admin and click the ID Card tab.
4. Click "Email my enrolment details for ID card".
5. Wait five minutes or so, then check your student email.
6. Print the PDF attachment, tick the boxes and sign your name.
7. Hand the form into Student Services on campus and get your sticker.

Clear as mud!

Beautiful photo of a beautiful piece of classic hardware, John Gruber's Apple Extended Keyboard. I've been using an IBM Model M clone Unicomp SpaceSaver with my desktops and a ThinkPad as my primary portable computer since 2009; regular keyboards make me feel like I'm typing on a thawed fish.

If you type a lot, you owe it to yourself to use wonderful keyboards. They'll do more for your productivity than any other upgrade, and I'd hazard a guess most people don't give theirs a second thought.

Why comment on the name when there's already a prefabricated meme? ;)

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What started as a mere observation regarding the obvious cuddliness of the Airbus A380 resulted in the this tweet from @johncarneyau, the tweet below from @DrRachie, a Google search and the above plushie!

@Rubenerd it's totes your fault I googled this! bit.ly/HL8Pru bit.ly/HL8ODU #want #huggableA380 @johncarneyau

I'd had a pretty difficult day, but this made me grin from ear to ear... in public! :D Who says Twitter is nothing but people complaining?

Emil Protalinski writing for ZDNet:

Summary: Not only did Facebook beat Google to the purchase of Instagram, but it also beat out Twitter, according to a recent rumor.

If that's true, Facebook did Twitter a favour!

By the way, whatever happened to Twitter's acquisition of Posterous? I never really used it, but was thinking of setting one up as a replacement for TwitPic.

Wow, someone who time travelled from even a few years ago wouldn't have any idea what any of these services are.

Some people didn't know Titanic was a real ship!?

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The easiest method (from experimentation this evening!) is to use the e2label command. For example, to set the label of the first partition on the /dev/sdc drive:

# e2label /dev/sdc1 yournewlabel

At this rate, I'm thinking I should just start another site for just Linux tips. Nah ;D

A statement from the new centre-right government in Queensland:

The Queensland Government has decided not to proceed with the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2012 which will save Queensland taxpayers $244,475, not including the cost of resourcing the Awards.

And only a few days later from Singapore:

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will donate $350,000 towards three new awards. The awards support community bonding, social service, and the arts.

Clearly there are more issues at play here, but fascinating timing nonetheless!

Getting this error in Red Hat's Palimpsest (Disk Utility)? Use gdisk to define partitions first, then you'll have no problems :).

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