- mathowie’s contacts – Matt has built in some relationship management/filtering tools into mefi
- clevercactus share is now public (updates on cactus log
- the new MT pricing makes a lot more sense. hoo-ray
- SFX – context-sensitive link server based on the OpenURL standard (overview)
- making vim functional on os x – useful
- Stupid Vim Tricks – also useful
Today I went to an interesting presentation on Smart Objects (in data repositories). It was interesting seeing the data/metadata from a research/library-oriented perspective. I should follow-up with writeups and citations, but I need a better way to organize all of this data.
(model w/ Drupal’s centralized taxonomy?)
This guy built a uber-cheap 1.2TB RAID system for $1,600. I spent $2,500 for my 0.75TB system back in December, but I’ve been very happy with it. Extra money was spent on getting a decent UPS, a real hardware RAID controller, and a hot-swap case w/ a sizable power supply.
Looking back, I would have spent an extra $100 for an even better case, gotten the 3Ware 8506 card instead of the LSI MegaRAID 150, and gotten a motherboard w/ 64-bit PCI (bought one on-sale that didn’t have that, oops).
Anyway, I figure I’ll be good for at least another year or two, at which point I’ll probably swap out my array w/ 1-2TB drives.
CVS web tools:
- CVS Monitor – tracks and creates graphs for modules; RSS support
- CIA Open Source Notification System – 3rd party open-source project cvs tracking
- Chora CVS Viewer – is this the best web CVS interface?
simple assitance for code management: description, notes, fm ping/integration for releases?
- Tavi Calendar – macro for doing calendar/event display for WikkiTikkiTavi
- Blog it Bookmarklet for Drupal – launches drupals bulky entry interface (see Drupal for Power Blogger) – sorta frustrating. Drupal has a lot of cool stuff and an architecture that makes a lot of sense to me, but the stuff I want to do would take almost as long to modify as to write a system from scratch
- Using Accesskeys – Is it worth it? – a pretty comprehensive examination of accesskey compatibility/support
- Blessing of the Non-Anti-Commons
- Airbag Industries – I can understand the reasoning, but it definitely a pita to lose one’s domain
notlong is a new short url service (TinyURL, EvilURL that packs in some clever features. Short URLS are generated as subdomains and also generating a password to both edit the long URL and view some click-through stats. The author also hosts an overview of various url forwarders .
Speaking of cleverness, Dan Kaminsky‘s talk at LayerOne this weekend was very much so. It was mostly about very ways to (ab)use DNS, using distributed recursive lookups as a communications channel, for file transfers, radio broadcasts. Also, a 3D-plotting tool for visualization, and communicating via third party DNS servers via last-lookup bit leakage.
In recent decades, children of Indian (or perhaps South Asian) origin have become to the spelling bee what Kenyans are to the marathon, albeit on a smaller, slightly less dominating scale.
Note to self: switch from OmniOutliner to something that has crash recovery as to not lose lots of text (back to TVO I think?)
- A Proposal of User Centric Profile Aggregation, Integration and Utilization
- Congrats!
- Thanks for the Memories – a Flash retrospective on Saddam Hussein, which includes a short history and also made some allegations with respects to the original Gulf War which seem to be… 100% true. Apparently, Saddam asked for approval and was given a green-light by the US to invade. Jeez, how many percent of the American public do you think knows about that? (f’in Bush’s)
Seymour Hersh gave a belated address at the University of Chicago last week. Brad DeLong has some scattered notes from Rick Pearlstein on the talk. Gripping stuff. I dropped a line to the UChicago contact, but was informed that Hersh requested that no public transcripts be made available.
(too bad, would love to hear all he said).