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I'm actually not a friend of social networking (ha, I'm such a punster), but I decided to give LinkedIn an whirl.

While I'm waiting for it to scan my email contacts (Note to self: Change password), I dutifully point to my LinkedIn button on the right hand side of your screen.

"code code code your boat, gently down the data stream...
merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a digital dream..."

- A friend of mine

For the last three days, I've been Writing in Code, as my GTalk status says.

I've been writing a little quiz application (no, no details on what it really does), which uses Active Record, most commonly ( Read more... )

Looking at the sheer mass of available stuff in that area, I am, frankly, overwhelmed by choice.

So, any recommendations on what I should listen to?

XAMPP has been installed, so has been UltraVNC. OS is not Ubuntu (it choked on something or other, and since Ubuntu 6.10 it is not readily apparent how to kill the boot screen hiding the boot messages on scroll), but meh: the thing is running, and that's enough ( Read more... )

Wow. Signs of a somebody approaching genius level when making animated movies:

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An old computer, which suffered from a broken video card (it' an ATX 1.0 based system, so it requires a video card for boot) is working now. Luckily, I found an old PCI card in another system. Right now, that thing is loading Ubuntu 6.10 (the only Ubuntu I currently have ready, so sue me ( Read more... )

Impossible? Not quite, since Sun built a data center in a shipping container. Yes, a shipping container.

It's called Project Blackbox.

The scenarios for use are quite interesting, too: From quick expansion of data centers to carry a complete data center in a shipping-ready container.

Awesome.