Archive for April, 2008

Thoughts on aggregators / planets

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Just in case you are unaware, a planet in the blogging context is an aggregation of content from a list of individual sources such as blogs, journals, articles etcetera. Some examples of planets in no particular order:

Planet Debian
Planet Ubuntu UK
Planet BitFolk
Planet SysAdmin

Over the last couple of weeks there have been some heated words on […]

Harassment of photographers

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

I’m getting increasingly disturbed by reports of members of the public being harassed whilst innocently taking photos. I’m going to start keeping a list of links to this sort of thing here.

2008-06, UK — Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile — Yahoo! News UK
2008-06, Washington DC, USA
2008-05-14, Los Angeles, California, USA
2008-05-13, Spokane, Washington, USA
2008-05, Los Angeles, […]

Links for 2008-04-20

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Mad hair thing (via Why, That’s Delightful!)
“Luckily, the butter knife that became lodged in his head did not pierce skull”

Spell check in vim7 / mutt

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Perhaps this is widespread knowledge but I didn’t know about it, and in the short time since dg pointed it out to me I have been loving it, so I thought I’d mention it here.
A few days ago I made stupid typos twice in a row in emails of a professional nature that I really […]

Links for 2008-04-15

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Shame on RSA
Shame on Virgin Media

Charlie for Mayor

Monday, April 14th, 2008

“Tee hee! Boris has had an affair! Arf! Now he’s offended the whole of Liverpool! Crumbs! He used the word “picaninnies”! Yuk yuk! He’s been caught on tape agreeing to give the address of a reporter to a friend who wants him beaten up! Ho ho! Look at his funny blond hair! HA HA BORIS […]

Start wearing purple

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

(OK, the Gogol Bordello guy is from Ukraine not Poland but I am lacking in inspiration at this time)
At mbm/Mel/Tom’s triple (yeah, really) leaving drinks Friday night, I was talking to Kvik about his forthcoming wedding. It went a bit like this:
Me: When is it you’re getting married?
Kvik: August
Me: Wow, not long to go…
Kvik: […]

Aye, and what have the Romans ever done for us!?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Seen on the Intarweb:
“ScotLUG owes nothing to the UK and I didn’t (and don’t) see why we should recognise such a redundant concept.”

Married To The Sea

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Taras,
I’ve been looking for that site for ages! Ever since I saw:
marriedtothesea.com
and then later forgot it.

Links for 2008-04-11

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Belly button as animal arsehole — the look for 2008?
Representative tries to put the fear of God in atheist — Chicago Tribune