September 2008
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New Zealand in recession
photo by Light Night
Last year we visited Auckland for 2 months to get an idea of what it would be like to live there. Both my wife and I have family in New Zealand and we’re giving it serious consideration. During our ‘07 holiday visit I checked in with my brother in law about the [...]
HQ Video SNL Gov. Palin and Katie Couric
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Saudis scared of hybrids
mashup by hindenbush
The Saudis have long memories and recall how high prices can cut into consumption; it happened in the 1980s and it’s happening again now. Any threat to oil’s leading role as a source of energy is a big worry for a country that sits on reserves of some 260 billion barrels. “We are [...]
Let’s Play “WALLSTREET BAILOUT” Rep. Marcy Kaptur
God bless ya Marcy!
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Slacker Uprising overseas direct download
Slacker Uprising, Michael Moore’s new film is available for download as of today. Great news, however for those of us living abroad – denied..
SORRY!
Unfortunately, the lawyers tell us we are only allowed to offer the film to people residing in the United States or Canada.
Luckily there seems to be a backdoor. For those [...]
Dropbox update, build 0.6.402 adds Win2k support
Changes include:
- fix for bug where client falsely reports ‘downloading’ when illegal characters are present in a file name
- fix to bug where sometimes shared folder renames would result in leaving of a share
- improvements to installer/preferences pane
- client now notifies you on a change of quota(!)
- wink2k compatibility
- improvements to ‘move dropbox’
- fix to [...]
Icondial, Call any phone in the World
Ashod from MeBeam has launched Icondial, a VoIP service that let’s you call any telephone in the World from a webpage. Give it a whirl.
Can you think of a few business applications for Icondial? The service can be widgetized – see my contact page here for an example.
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How come he gets horsies?
by Daniel Kongos
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Paranoia Mix – Awesome
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Man photographs himself everyday for 17 years
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Robot arm
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Murder Burger and why I Love NZ
photo by Noface2
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Dropbox with symbolic links in finder
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Dropbox is a great service but it only backs up data in your Dropbox folder. Like me you probably have existing folders you’d like to backup without moving everything under your dropbox folder. Solution, symbolic links. SymbolicLinker is a cool plugin for creating symbolic links using Finder from the right click menu. [...]
Michael Moore on Larry King: French tax plan
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