January 2008
66 posts
Revolution WordPress Theme →
Commercial print-style themes for WordPress
Sociologists: Studying engineering turns you into... →
Dodgy research backing up claims that graduate engineers are more likely to become terrorists.
Summary of experience so far setting up a CI build and deployment from an existing manual process using VSS: Weeping quietly in the corner. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Pattern Recognition » 2008 State of the Union as... →
Keywords from the 2008 State of the Union speech represented as a tag cloud.
Two sociologists use dodgy research to claim that that graduate engineers are potential terrorists: http://tinyurl.com/yvsmk5. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Sky Anytime…. Anytime you’re using a PC that is. No Mac or Linux compatibility it seems. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Lego Brick Timeline →
A timeline of the history of Lego told visually.
Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts →
UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits →
Jolt →
Nifty little app for temporarily suspending power management to avoid the screen blanking out when you’re watching a movie or giving a presentation.
Apparently according to the WSj that French trader from SG had a position of $50-73billion when he got found out…. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Just been laughing myself silly at a mate’s tale of his time at and being expelled from Midleton College. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Ah… yes. BSOD.. that’s why I’ve avoided working on Windows for a year. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Visual SourceSafe Version Control: Unsafe at any... →
Some of the things that are causing a bit of pain in my first contract…. automating a highly manual build process that revolves around an odd use of VSS.
Free WiFi Hotspots in Ireland: Google Maps →
Been hearing this on Anna Livia LiveDrive in the morning. http://tinyurl.com/3dlwye (and “kill” means something else) (via Twitter / fintanp)
Vote to get Dublin on the world Monopoly board: http://tinyurl.com/2vusj5 (sorry non-Dubs but it’s the only Irish city you can vote for…) (via Twitter / fintanp)
zefrank.com: an interesting pair of short readings →
Dangerous ideas meet dangerous (virtual) reality.
Think twice about iPhone development | Reg... →
Final part of a three-part series on mobile device application development. This piece takes a good look at the issues currently surrounding developing software for the Apple iPhone.
Dip into concept programming | Reg Developer →
Concept programming…. Read this and still not sure what the hell they’re talking about. Need to read more about this.
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy →
Radar Online : With global warming hogging the... →
It’ll end in tears….
Wikipedia on your iPhone →
Patrick Collison has stuck Wikipedia on an iPhone. Now you can too…
Bah! Drowning in corporate bureaucracy designed to prevent you from doing your job easily. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Mate sends mail to my gmail account with “Judean People’s Front” in text. Google puts link to Monty Python t-shirts in sponsored link box. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Could be worse though… could be COBOL on VMS. <runs shrieking in terror from the room/> (via Twitter / fintanp)
Spent yesterday afteroon in a meeting about my next contract. Beginning to realise a big downside to this contracting lark: VB.NET. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Bah! Keep hitting Windows+Space Bar on Win XP expecting Quicksilver to pop up.. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Wish I could browse audiobooks on iTunes by title rather than by author… (via Twitter / fintanp)
Better SCM Initiative : Comparison →
Comparison of different version control systems.
PC World - The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time →
Dodgy keyboards from the ’70s and ’80s.
“My daughter, she has cocoa pops for breakfast and alcopops for dinner”
– Overheard in Dublin by @ananelson
Milblog of a WW1 soldier (by his grandson from diaries and letters 90 years to the day they were written): http://wwar1.blogspot.com/ (via Twitter / fintanp)
WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier →
Milblog of a First World War soldier (from his diary and letters by his grandson, day-for-day 90 years after they were written).
2007 MIMA Summit Wrap Up →
Jason Fried from 37signals talks about working silent and avoiding “red flag” words like “quick” and “easy”.
The Bender Brewer Project →
Lifesize Bender B. Rodriguez Beer Brewer.
Pacifist World of Warcraft player trying to level up without killing anything: http://tinyurl.com/3abfee (via Twitter / fintanp)
Collaborative Software Testing: Post-Agilism... →
Post-Agilism – Beyond the Shock of the New →
Collaborative Software Testing: Post-Agilism:... →
15 Minutes of Fame: Noor the pacifist - WOW... →
World of Warcraft player attempting to level up to 70 without killing anything.
Ramaze →
Ruby-based web framework
Looking at Dublin city traffic cams (http://tinyurl.com/crkqb) and realising that my first commute home up the M50 is going to take a while. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Jeremy Clarkson says “Steal my ID”… someone does: http://tinyurl.com/22gcy2 (via Twitter / fintanp)
Of course none of that has anything to do with what I’ll be doing for the next two months but hey, first day’s always slack. (via Twitter / fintanp)
The SoyLatte (port of BSD Java 1.6 to OS X) download has the most annoying password requirement: ‘I am a Licensee in good standing’. (via Twitter / fintanp)
Three Macs within view of my desk in this Microsoft-heavy office. Ah contractors :-) (via Twitter / fintanp)
SoyLatte - Port of BSD Java →
Port of FreeBSD Java 1.6 to OS X, now at version 1.x
Taking a look at Mingle (http://tinyurl.com/2otxqj). Oh I hope I get to use something like this for real soon. (via Twitter / fintanp)