Heh! Chaos and Madness in this tool is there. [here]
Via: GMSV
Month: June 2005
Ohhh! Square-Drive Screws…IDIOTS!
Geez, Cool Tools is all over “square-drive screws”. [here]
BFD.
For you people in the US, you have missed out on this technological advancement. These screws have been standard issue in Canada for at least 40 years — 85% of the screws sold in Canada are “square-drive”.
Oh, and BTW, they are ROBERTSON screws, not “square-drive”. How lame is “square-drive”?
Another BTW: know how you remove a stripped out Phillips screw? With a Robertson screwdriver.
FeedBurner feed back up
Ok everyone, the FeedBurner feed is back up, if you prefer to use this method to subscribe.
Icon in the right-hand column.
lifehack: Notepaper as a Bookmark
lifehack brings us yet another great idea: notepaper as a bookmark. [here]
Before I started using 3X5 index cards, I bought a ahck of 4X6 cards. Turns out that the 4X6 cards don’t fit in the Mead Hipster PDA case (here and here). But now, I think I have found a use for them.
The Hipster PDA Bookmark Kit. Use it like a regular Hipster, but make notes (using chapters and page numbers to track them. When you are done with the book, file the bookmark PDA for that book somewhere so that you can retrieve it later.
Hey, filing it with the book is perhaps the best solution.
Yeehaa! GTD inspiration at 7:45AM on a Monday!
TECHNORATI: GTD, Hipster PDA, Index Cards, Moleskine, lifehack, Organization, Reading
Mmmm…Beer!
Samantha bought some of this for a friend of hers when we lived in California…still the best named beer.
What are you drinking tonight…?
Dave Winer Edited out of Podcasting History
Dave Winer: Expunged. Want to know when and who?
With Dave
Without Dave
If the timestamps on Wikipedia are correct, around 06:00 GMT May 23, 2005, Dave Winer was expunged from the history of Podcasting.
Offending IP address: 68.174.103.8. A RoadRunner IP.
Technorati: Podcasting, Dave Winer, Wikipedia
Personal mail and domain borked
If anyone has been trying to send me e-mail over the last couple of days, please re-send (Also GMail icon in right-hand column). Looks like the place in Canada where I hosted the domain pulled the records. My fault: didn’t pay them.
But I simply moved the DNS info to the place where the domain is registered and that is that!
Should be back to normal in a couple of days. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Technorati Searchlet Added
Added the Beta Technorati Searchlet to the right-hand menu (scroll down a bit you lazy people! <smile> ).
Let me know if it works for you!
Technorati: Technorati, Technorati Searchlet, search
PSPad: My new Windows test editor
TDavid turned me on to PSPad. [here]
Like TDavid, I have been a fervent Notetab user for years. But the lack of development on Notetab and the native syntax highlighting and built-in hex editor make PSPad very appealing to me.
I will try it and I will see.
Technorati: Notetab, PSPad, text editor, hex editor
Geek Irony: Adult Entertainment, Bandwidth Leeching and Apache Modules
Port80 tells a great story about a product that they had in the pipe that would prevent bandwidth leeching (defined in the post). [here]
Their observation that technology that could do this would be of particular interest to purveyors of adult-oriented sites does not surprise me. However, their rationale for stopping development was not based on any moral issues; the fact is that LAMP development platforms are preferred in this industry because of their cost.
Now, I am sure that some enterprising Apache hacker could very quickly develop a functional module that would plug right onto the server to deliver on some of the basic design elements laid out by the Port80 Team. This would be a benefit to both the IIS and Apache communities, as interest in this feature would push for a similar feature in IIS, allowing Port80 to finally release this software.
Rightly or wrongly, porn has fueled a large number of the developments in the open source community. My place is not to judge; it is to benefit from the advancements.