chris @ July 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades | Tim Ferriss
Now this note is a bit self-serving, and written in a slightly annoying, arrogant style. The fact is, however, that I'm a generalist, definitely of the "Jack of all trades" type. I've long felt inferior to deep specialists, but am finding more […]
chris @ July 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
LamsonProject: Lamson The Python Mail Server
SMTP server in modern, MVC design, written in Python, released under GPL. Very interesting.
(tags: Python email opensource software)
Free Public WiFi SSID at WLAN Book.com
A more step-by-step explanation of where the "Free Public WiFi" SSID comes from, and how Windows zero-configuration is at fault.
(tags: wifi windows security microsoft)
"Free Public WiFi"? Not! […]
chris @ July 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar
It's easy, but the Facebook user interface continues to baffle me — I don't see the relevant options.
(tags: google facebook calendar howto)
chris @ July 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
How to photograph the northern lights, (aurora borealis) with a digital camera.
Good article about what precautions to take to have a good chance of getting good aurora pictures with a digital SLR.
(tags: tutorial northernlights auroraborealis photography)
W3C | RDFa Primer
"We introduce RDFa, which provides a set of XHTML attributes to augment visual data with machine-readable hints. […]
chris @ July 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Dog Vocal Communication Portal - science in action!
The Vocal Dog project. Something like a speech accent archive for dogs.
(tags: animal_communication science dogs)
NYTimes.com | Hacker Exposes Private Twitter Documents
Bad. Scary.
(tags: security nytimes privacy Twitter)
iPhone 3.0 geolocation javascript API | bemoko's mobile web
The 3.0 firmware means that getCurrentPosition() is available to Javascript in Safari. That is, location-aware […]
chris @ July 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Eventbrite | Women of Bletchley Park
Note in your calendas: 26 July 2009 - event in Bletchley Park. Organised with Suw Charman-Anderson.
(tags: women technology BletchleyPark feminism)
Making Light | Permission to suck
Abi Sutherland in getting involved in an open source software project as the only woman, all the while learning to code. Echos my feelings, as a […]