2008 post archive
- A quote from Igor Tamerlan in Bali
- A late 2008 coffee induced night rambling
- Merry Yuletide Greetings from Singapore!
- Using env in shebang scripting language lines
- Remembering my silly mum one year on
- Agitating Google Reader users!
- My phantom Ourmedia account is a phantom
- On Rambling, Tanglin Mall, Nikon D90s
- Google Reader struggle continues!
- Eventually there will be posts with substance
- Servage hacking, Rubenerd blocking update
- RubenerdShow.com and Servage have just been blocked
- My political compass, mild left wing libertarian?
- Chicken soup, a nice thick blanket and a book of cliches
- And back to Singapore we go
- Oh no, it’s an Adelaide rambling post!
- I learned something this evening about Nepal
- A Soup.io kitchen for Pownce users
- Stop blaming Microsoft for cybersecurity woes?
- An involved Optus customer support debacle
- Pownce exported me a 404 error screen
- Ten fresh Rubenerd Fun Facts, part four
- Another adventure with an Australian bank
- Text message insight philosophy
- On Google Reader, the iPhone and J-Walkyness
- Making Firefox 3 look like a Mac browser
- Camera flash philosophy by Brandon Hoover
- Having fun with out Aussie download quotas
- I’m being punished for supporting blog comments!
- Singapore benefit concert for jazz great Michael Stanton
- Sleepy head seal by Dave Wares
- My attempt at a Canadian Liberal NDP coalition post
- Canada and Australia are kinda similar, eh, mate
- Lesson 5 in grilled cheese sandwich observation
- Scripts to make Google Reader usable again!
- Comment on my Bill O’Reilly Flickr photo
- Adelaide Airport at 22:00
- It started as a post about drafts!
- A koobface nail in the coffin for Facebook
- Google Reader takes a turn for the bland
- Google Map of Adelaide Christmas light displays
- Is this shipping table normal?
- Net censorship like trying to boil the ocean
- Conflicting xml:lang attribute woes
- What the 15 inch MacBook Pro really needs
- Gordon Haff’s Pervasive Datacentre review
- I’ll let Stewie Griffin answer this comment
- Visualising Google searches with StateStats
- Randy Fullerton’s comments on my sleep post
- The dramas behind the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
- Google Reader at 3am: sleep related stories
- 101 things we’ve learned from video games
- Enabling the Processor preference pane
- Ten fresh new Rubenerd Fun Facts, part three
- This aeroplane looks like it’s wearing mascara
- Search for a killer desktop replacement combo
- Late Linehaul Frt Delayed and other observations
- My final Pownce post for posterity
- Pownce export feature now available
- Goodbye Pownce, I Hardly Used Thee
- Having lots of fun with Wordle
- Never thought I’d have 1000 posts!
- They listened! DBS no longer supporting FOTF
- Warm feedback for my DBS FOTH post
- Drive catastrophe, good thing I have solid backups
- Rare occasion when Ruben genuinely feels happy!
- OPML feed for Great Australian Firewall resources
- Coldplay snubs Adelaide on their Aussie tour
- Catpuccino
- Ruben’s words of camera phone wisdom
- iPhone 2.2 makes MobileSafari usable again!
- The GetUp Team on the Great Australian Firewall
- DBS Bank’s support for Focus on the Family
- Installing Alpine on Mac OS X
- Calling BS on cancer wait and see approach
- Diplomatic responses to my government bailout
- Ended up as an non-ode ode to John C. Dvorak
- Show 259: The Nicole Kidman David Letterman episode
- My own current woes with realtors and rent
- Disable Marker Felt on iPhone, iPod Touch Notes
- Show 258: The recycling bin rescue episode
- Have bank bailouts exposed a serious flaw?
- I heart clouds, latest photos
- Ten fresh Rubenerd Fun Facts, part two
- Misleading late night Citibank commercials
- Show 257: The freak Aussie weather and iPhone 2.2 episode
- Sunday afternoon philosophy: spiritual atheism
- New Woolies logo looks icky and Web 2.0
- Preliminary results of NetBSD on a MacBook Pro
- Ruben’s epic Phantom of the Opera Ghost File
- Western Digital Scorpio Black 298GiB goodness
- Freshly baked Camino 1.6.5 now out
- An Adelaide Airport addendum post thing
- On Adelaide Airport, Embraer E-Jets
- Ten fresh new Rubenerd Fun Facts!
- Blog spammers now using targeted advertising?
- Podcast feed has been fixed
- Whole Wheat Radio, MySpace, Wikipedia
- Is General Motors worth saving? Well…
- Nostalgic for credit crunch days
- David Letterman’s Late Show Fun Facts arrived!
- Even Ferraris need to be pushed!
- Ruben’s mostly-fail-safe method for beating blues
- The EFA’s Dale Clapperton on Triple M
- My review was featured on Elgato.com!
- Lesson 4 in grilled cheese sandwich observation
- Alaskan senate election race news
- Our Prime Minister is now on Twitter!
- I’m calling it quits on Facebook
- Somehow I don’t think I’ll be sending this
- Show 256: The Moleskine retro 256 episode
- It was a hot one in Adelaide yesterday
- Google Reader feature requests
- Windows 3.x on Mac OS X using DOSBox
- Spamhaus names Microsoft in their top 5
- Running Windows 3.x on a MacBook Pro
- Video: Now there’s a gas leak in Adelaide!
- Remembrance Day header image updated
- Reminiscing about DOS, Windows 3.x
- Australian internet censorship pilot to commence
- Remembrance Day
- Conroy, fix the Internet before you censor it
- Reduced profits of auto companies a good thing?
- Google Reader, take three!
- My falling out with Microsoft actually explained
- My HiME NetBSD desktop background whatnot
- Possible reason why there’s no MacBook FireWire
- Google Reader has me bamboozled
- Roast beef sandwiches for underage cats
- Assigning applications to spaces on Mac OS X Leopard
- Notes on using NetBSD’s pkgsrc on Mac OS X
- Streaming wheaty audio success!
- Important philosophical post on Barack Obama
- Someone thinks internet filtering is a good idea?
- The world needed Barack Obama
- Steven Fry’s salient tweet about America
- Twitter chatter over Obama win
- Obama has won!
- Public service announcement for American friends
- Lesson 3 in grilled cheese sandwich observation
- Final post on the American elections tomorrow
- Even more woes with streaming internet audio
- Sophisticated MacBook Pro cooling consulting solution
- People in Australia talking about Obama
- Metadata urges is an unfortunate title
- McCain discusses Australia, Obama does not
- Private Investigation of Private Investigations
- Internet censorship discussed on Aussie breakfast TV
- Rubenerd Blog October 2008 rambling summary
- New Aussie NoCleanFeed protest graphics
- Apple, these are my FireWire drives
- How to forcibly eject drives in Mac OS X
- Only problem so far with the iPhone: MobileSafari
- Ominous post numbers are ominous
- No Clean Feed, No Censorship on Australian internet
- iPhone public transport ramblings
- Windows 7’s blatant duplication of KDE’s interface
- Ever wondered what a new airliner door looks like?
- On RSS, Michael Moore, Jim Kloss and Taxis
- Creating and using restricted accounts on Mac OS X
- Brief flirtation with FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro is over
- Mac OS X thinks Adelaide is in eastern Australia
- MacBook a winner, unless you need FireWire
- Sarah Palin’s non-answers are scarier
- I can now boot FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro!
- Avaaz.org message for American friends
- Keyboard and coffee, Sent from my iPhone
- Australia would vote for Obama
- Open letter to overseas Facebook users
- Palin pick backfired amongst younger voters!
- My MacBook Pro likes bras… whoa, what?
- The penultimate plus one MacBook FireWire post
- Addressing some MacBook FireWire arguments
- Tips for compiling KDE 4.1 from FreeBSD ports
- The Simpsons 0913: Joy of Sect
- Apple still claims the MacBook includes FireWire
- Obituary for FireWire 1999-2008
- Open seven days a week, it means to us
- The verdict is in, my readers rule!
- Apple’s tragic FireWire MacBook mistake
- When people lose interest in you, use Qwitter
- An audience with the prime minister
- If you like my writing, you can buy me a coffee!
- I wasn’t born yet: the Convair 880
- We need a world government, and we need it now
- Come home, it’s supper time!
- If only oil cost just 100 dollars a barrel!
- Registering for Brightkite fun, just a slight mistake
- New aluminium block MacBook Pros are nice, mostly!
- Journalistic merging of wikis and blogs?
- I really should pay more attention when I toast
- New Apple notebook hardware, waffle irons
- New quality of life rankings, why I’m skeptical.
- This is what an economic bounce-back looks like
- Inspirational morning quote of a quote
- Show 255: The pointless OS rambling episode
- Nobody will ever need 16GiB, right?
- So much feedback, yet this barely qualifies as a post
- Even Aussies think Sarah Palin is funny!
- Okay I admit it, I like the USA
- Bill Withers had a lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
- The REAL reason CBA is buying BankWest
- Blue Day 2008 and Mental Health Week
- Ouch
- Spring wildflower photos in Mawson Lakes
- My view on the role of capitalism, via Twitter
- Free and open source Mac software goodies
- AltaVista Babel Fish is no more
- Australian daylight savings has started. Free map!
- Misleading airliner news headlines are misleading
- Andy The Code Kaufman Geass Quiz Kaufman
- Sarah Palin, Russia, parliament, stupidity
- Nitpicking open source and free… again
- 3/700ths of a Wall Street bailout will feed every child
- Show 254: The IntoYourHead show war episode
- My kingdom for a bigger notebook hard drive
- A midlife crisis… at 22?
- Remembering Paul Newman in my own way
- Show 253: The Singapore Grand Prix and bills episode
- GM Holden’s answer to rising fuel prices
- 9rules is not a manufacturer of luxury tape measures
- Happy 10th birthday wishes for Google
- My sister Elke now has a lettuth weblog
- Fun with the Mac OS X weather widget
- How do you curb weblog sporadic-ness?
- BeOS, the Amiga, now the iPhone?
- Show 252: The airport scare iPhone episode
- At least Australian banks are weathering crisis just fine
- Okay okay I got an iPhone!
- Show 251: The telco malice episode
- It’s a personal pineapple
- Freshly baked Camino 1.6.4 now out
- Show 250: The quarter millennium episode
- Not everyone approves of Ginger in Rundle Mall
- Show 249: The Saturday laughter episode
- My OS pipe dream, and HP developing a Linux distro?
- Disingenuousity isn’t a word, but should be
- Show 248: The unplugged Mawson Lakes scare episode
- Ourmedia has deleted me!
- Doing my bit to advertise Wheatstalk 2008!
- Google Chrome goodness!
- On the Mawson Lakes library and common sense
- Rendering sports commentators unnecessary!
- Networking issue to blame for poor VMware Fusion BSD performance?
- RBA drops interest rates by quarter percent
- Sunrise, Spring and September musingS
- VMware Fusion 2.0 Release Candidate 1 available
- Do we all like HP’s new logo?
- VIDEO: Replacing the fan in my MacBook Pro
- Common sense is the least common
- Eye really like my EyeTV
- The NSA incomplete sentences quiz
- A revisited MacVim editor review
- I have James Woods!
- Sustainable Olympics? Haha!
- Wireless networking and podcast musings
- Cleaning out accumulated FTP crap
- Eeirily accurate web comics are eeiry
- Eerie night Mawson Lakes train station photo
- I believe in the United Nations Charter
- Is WordPress news not anymore?
- Lesson 2 in grilled cheese sandwich observation
- The Church of the New World Order!
- It turned into a Vim and GNU nano ramble post
- VMware Fusion 2.0 beta2 with FreeBSD review
- Homer Simpson’s barbecue pit
- This useless 810th post has the ID 1337
- I’ve changed Twitter clients, again
- Jaiku: 2008-08
- OPEN Networks can’t spell Porsche
- On students and generic brand goodness
- Drive letters in Mac OS X
- Internode rocks!
- Automatically quitting Terminal.app windows
- Post 800!
- A lesson in grilled cheese sandwich observation
- Virgin Broadband doesn’t like my money!
- Athletes are more important, what’s new?
- Can’t log in after upgrading to WordPress 2.6
- Phone line connection musings
- The Adobe Flash of the comments world
- Olympics tomorrow, and other musings
- Telecommunications infrastructure shock…?
- Taking the high road, I hope!
- Western Digital MyBook DHCP adventure
- On Adelaide life updates and tank chairs
- Starbucks shuts down in South Australia
- Hotlinking isn’t. Ruben arrested for bad heading
- Jaiku: 2008-07
- Adelaide life update
- Photos from Perth
- Back in Adelaide, world business rant
- Only one problem with strong encryption
- On Zimbabwe and operating systems
- I’m very proud of this svelte post
- The Evolt browser archive
- Backing up CDs to ISOs on FreeBSD
- FreeBSD AMD64 is good for you
- The Boeing 777 for the 777th post
- Tunneling X11 through SSH on Mac OS X
- Fun with Xfce part 4: Using Openbox
- The CNET Mac Conspiracy
- Downloaded Firefox 3.0, still on Camino
- Steve Dirr at Whole Wheat Radio!
- Show 247: The barely listenable web development episode
- Show 246: The “Fairness Engine” rant episode
- Show 245: The double net whammy and computer speed episode
- Jaiku: 2008-06
- Show 244: The somewhat psychedelic difficult people episode
- Power failures are.
- Long live the Cobind Desktop
- Heh heh, piano tuner
- Whole Wheat Radio Wireless@SG problems
- Fun with Xfce, part three
- Fun with Xfce, part two
- Boeing 767 for post 767
- Fun with Xfce, part one
- Show 243: The FreeBSD Debian drivers rant episode
- Ruby 1.8.7 released
- Jim is back, my own go at philosophy
- Jaiku: 2008-05
- Sus meeting up spam
- Recover forgotten passwords in Camino
- Back in KL again
- Brian Jude rocks, chemtrails, Hanlon’s razor
- Just ordered a Yubikey
- Latest computer book haul
- Boeing 757 for post 757
- VIM security note for FreeBSD folks
- KDE user moving his main machine to GNOME
- Zip and rar archives in Gnome
- Zhang Xuan painter post
- Huge fallen tree on Stevens Road photos
- Adeliade and Wichita, is it just me?
- Hey Joe, what’s your handicap?
- Web 8.0 goodness
- Using Twhirl with Jaiku
- 747 post, bad taking off pun
- Camino and Google Reader atom problems
- Very expensive podcast folder nostalgia
- Message to James Kloss
- Google Reader shared items
- Retro Atlantic Neon signs
- NTP primer on FreeBSD, NetBSD
- Google says I’m a spammer, again
- The iPhone in Australia
- FreeBSD on an Armada M300 rocks
- 737 posts, bad taking off pun
- Double uh oh
- Can you categorise too much?
- Data capacity then and now, pretty amazing!
- Microsoft not to buy Yahoo?
- Showing network drives on an OS X desktop
- Setting up MediaWiki for registered user edits only
- They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
- Happy May!
- Show 241: The Labour Day forgetting things episode
- A pleasant afternoon quiz distraction
- Jaiku: 2008-04
- All work and no sleep makes Ruben something
- Konqueror suppoirt isn’t a new Gmail feature
- Show 240: The fast food and Starbucks episode
- Incredible SGD579 laptop deal
- On Adobe Air, limited accounts, updating, BSD
- Spreadsheet adventures (and Excel 08 sucks!)
- Well there you go, the K does mean something
- Show 239: The Crash Test Dummies and silly people episode
- RMS Queen Mary 2 size comparison
- I’m not being blocked so far!
- You see, iWork is like a box of chocolates
- The Commodore logo stats conspiracy
- Specify image dimensions and save the world!
- Show 238: The why I am an atheist episode
- Starbucks or Makkers for studying?
- JB Singapore urban rails: about time!
- Uh oh
- Unnecessarily verbose WWR post
- Show 237: The Whole Wheat Renovators episode
- A philosophical Twitter question
- Cutting Mono out of GNOME on FreeBSD
- Show 236: The ridiculous fun with a label printer episode
- Why do you use Twitter?
- Show 235: The Elke Sims 2 bombardment episode
- Batam trip: Straits of Singapore photos!
- Inheriting a little Armada M300 subnotebook!
- Using del.icio.us just as a bookmark repository
- Show 234: The Tasmania and ranting about news episode
- My favourite free Windows 2000 security tools
- 587 more reasons to like Whole Wheat Radio
- Making restitution for my Vista post
- Show 233: The disjointed indie media and building things episode
- A silly happy birthday Elke!
- Back from Batam
- UN report on women chilling, not surprising
- Coffee Bean at Bishan
- Useless post 700 post milestone post
- Jaiku: 2008-03
- My Windows Vista Home Premium adventure
- Intel’s breathtaking photos from Twitter
- My suspension of disbelief was DOA
- Wikipedia reaches 10 million articles!
- The Internet Explorer Q Continuum
- The podcast word debate is anything but simple!
- Comments instead of the forum
- Show 232: The useless Rubenerd 22nd birthday episode
- UPS tracking excitement!
- I’m 22, but I won’t wear one!
- A Whole Wheaty birthday!
- Apple bundling Safari was dumb
- Frank Edward Nora’s electronic makeover!
- Ironic Adobe FreeBSD advertising
- Ed Craver and Esther Golton make my Monday!
- A philosophical security question
- No need to Ask who wins this Easter
- Dodgy Windows virus scanner on FreeBSD!
- Insanely useful webapp to convert PDF to SVG
- Archaic existence rude metals spam
- From WWR: The Renovators Don’t Ski
- What happened to groovy Scripting News?
- Google Earth shows QE2 in Sydney!
- Welcome home Esther!
- Sleek Openbox in KDE on FreeBSD
- Does believing in God make you happier?
- Tibet and the Olympics, a sign?
- Debian Etch for 5, then back to Slackware
- No LockerGnome, I now block you
- Should Wikipedia be a time capsule?
- He uses the word people a lot
- Glad legal systems don’t work like this!
- Is embedded spam getting worse?
- Powered by FreeBSD case sticker
- Boohoo Microsoft Yahoo paraphernalia
- Faulty Intel DQ35JO motherboard fun
- Twitter keeps trying to recruit me
- The super wicked evil 666 post!
- On low profile PCI cards and Microsoft tax
- A shallot by any other name
- Barack Obama, Bob Brown Awesomeness!
- Rubenerd Blog made it to Upian’s Hot Links!
- Family post with technical sociological term thingys
- Jeremy Zawodny inspired Yahoo scenarios
- Migrating from del.icio.us to Magnolia
- KDE 3.5.8 font registration fun
- Microsoft and Yahoo? Better close my accounts!
- Leopard surprises me in February!
- Twitter is down again!
- Nokia buying Trolltech!
- Ec5618 on evolution
- A back from Sydney circumlocution
- Accumulated holiday spam fun
- Debra Ross, Mummy’s funeral
