Category Archives: General
The Great Australian Internet Blackout
The Great Australian Internet Blackout is a combined online and offline demonstration against imposed online censorship. We’re collaborating with Electronic Frontiers Australia (and hoping to bring on similar organisations soon) to make sure every Australian knows why this draconian policy … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, censorship, freedom, internet blackout, nocleanfeed, politics
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Internet blackout to protest Australian Internet filtering
Update: Check out the Great Australian Internet Blackout project… now we’re getting serious about online/offline protests! Please, black out your website and online profile images in protest against the Australian Government’s Internet Filtering policy. Why? It may seem cheesy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, censorship, democracy, Internet, internet filtering, Kevin Rudd, nocleanfeed, protest, Stephen Conroy
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No(uveau), Mum…
Ah, the life and times of a kernel hacker…
Watching nginx upstreams with collectd
Already happy with nginx in front of Apache for a number of sites, I decided it was time to start testing nginx/fastcgi on my personal server (the serial crash test dummy of my web operations). The only problem: I have … Continue reading
WordPress and Drizzle
So, for amusement, education and a desire to put Drizzle through its paces with a real-world application, I built a Drizzle database adapter for WordPress. Rather than completely dumping the native wpdb class (as most WordPress database adapters appear to … Continue reading
How do dogs drink water?
Wow, this sure is counter-intuitive. Watching Po the other day, I was pondering more efficient ways for a dog to drink water. I mean, why doesn’t he just hold his breath, stick his snout in the bowl and suck? OK, … Continue reading
Welcoming Po to the family
Yesterday we adopted a beautiful, 2½ month-old Border Collie puppy. He was the more curious and attentive of two brothers, though it was still a difficult choice! He is heart-stoppingly cute, has that adorable “new puppy” smell, soft and fluffy … Continue reading
“I loved you in Wall Street!”
A single scene completely redeems one of the worst films of all time… So much awesome.
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Tagged apocalypse now, charlie sheen, hot shots, martin sheen, wall street, worst film ever
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Google Distro Trends, 2009/04/23
Just mentioned it in the comments of my previous post, but it’s worth a more public reminder… That’s what I would describe as “the hopes and dreams of a generation” (of Software Freedom lovers), and is the result of fantastic … Continue reading
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Tagged Debian, fedora, firefox, google trends, Linux, Open Source, opensuse, Red Hat, suse, Ubuntu
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Ubuntu 9.04 + branding “regression”
I have really enjoyed watching the iterative improvements to the original Ubuntu login screen theme. Well, at least until Intrepid, which looked awfully familiar… but the grungy additions kept me attempting to clean my screen in vain. Here’s a slightly … Continue reading
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Tagged brand, branding, dovecot, gdm, gutsy, jaunty, login screen, netbook remix, postfix, Ubuntu
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