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Heh! Chaos and Madness in this tool is there. [here]
Via: GMSV

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.

Ok everyone, the FeedBurner feed is back up, if you prefer to use this method to subscribe.
Icon in the right-hand column.

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

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

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.

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

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

Nortel lost their President-COO and CTO today. [here]
Analysis: Company is more screwed up than Siebel.

TECHNORATI: Nortel

Last night I built a new dedicated database server for my applications. Up until this morning, the databases resided on the same machine as the Web server.
The new DB server has less RAM than the Webserver, but has much faster SCSI drives, with plural being the operative word. Data lives on one physical device, and apps on another. The Web server currently only has one physical drive, which meant lots of thrashing on large queries.
If you experience any weirdness, let me know.