Linklog » Archives » January 2005

ooh ooh ooh - a weblog about t-shirts. » « 08:35 07/01/05 | permalink

hobbix is new weblog software in ruby. it's site is super-rad - must try the product. » « 22:41 10/01/05 | permalink | ruby weblogs

some photos from under tokyo of the flood systems. looks like an awesome counter-strike level. [via coates] » « 22:42 10/01/05 | permalink | games

hats for cats. and whole outfits. search your feelings. » « 22:43 10/01/05 | permalink

a blast from the past - real programmers don't use pascal. » « 23:02 10/01/05 | permalink

e found a recipe for battenburg. awesome. why doesn't canada have the king of cakes? » « 23:05 10/01/05 | permalink

tom has basically gone crazy, but in a cool apple way. » « 02:39 11/01/05 | permalink

the IE7 project seems good - transparent standards support for IE5/6. has anyone done anything similar to work around moz/saf bugs? one universal library of fixes would be cool. » « 03:31 11/01/05 | permalink | javascript

'it sounds kind of like if guided by voices got in a fight with 1984-era R.E.M., and maybe neil young is there, but he is just kind of watching and nodding, just kinda like, "oh, yeah. that is awesome.".' drew's new album is out » « 03:40 11/01/05 | permalink | music

denise is taking over the world with her subway work » « 03:44 11/01/05 | permalink

some people and moaning about flickr's 'beta' tag. but, err, it *is* beta. it's in restricted growth mode, it's got known bugs and issues (some serious) and it's not a 1.0 release. it will be soon though, i hope :) » « 04:29 11/01/05 | permalink

this guy would own at counter strike. [via bash] » « 21:50 11/01/05 | permalink | bash

dude. i am on the front page of php.net. i am l33t haxxor (if you're in vancouver on friday, come and listen to me talk crap at phpwest) » « 05:53 12/01/05 | permalink | php

this is a good tutorial on mysql clustering. maybe when the new hardware arrives in the office we can give it a trial. » « 09:15 12/01/05 | permalink | mysql

phpMyAdmin doesn't yet have support for NDB - looks like someone dropped the ball. » « 09:23 12/01/05 | permalink | mysql

the flickr carnivore rules. like a really invasive zeitgeist. » « 17:29 12/01/05 | permalink

as discussed a few times since minimac came out: g4 cube fishbowl » « 17:23 13/01/05 | permalink

david ascher picks out the best quotes from my presentation at phpwest. » « 08:29 15/01/05 | permalink | php

some thoughtfull notes on webserver hardware [via salti] » « 22:14 15/01/05 | permalink

spent six hours in the colo today, moving flickr. tomorrow i will be 24. go me. » « 04:51 17/01/05 | permalink

incase you haven't tried it before (and i suspect it's a north-america only product), mashmallow creme is awesome. » « 05:24 17/01/05 | permalink | food

i think these were the power strips john was talking about - monitored via telnet, http interface or snmp traps - nice for graphing your power usage. » « 07:22 17/01/05 | permalink | tech

just bookmarking jeff's notes of phpwest. » « 07:40 17/01/05 | permalink | php

jeff's new comic has started. here's hoping it's awesome. looks interesting so far. » « 07:55 18/01/05 | permalink | comics

where does george find this stuff? awesome d+d scenario » « 01:19 19/01/05 | permalink

how many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? what, you mean you don't know?!?! » « 05:35 19/01/05 | permalink | jokes

audioscrobbler still rules, even if it tells me i've now spent over 4 hours listening to holland 1945 by neutral milk hotel (that's a track not an album. yeah) » « 05:36 19/01/05 | permalink | music

i'd been talking about it since it came out, but this is awesome times one million. [via aaron] » « 21:39 19/01/05 | permalink | mac

i hate dvd anti-theft packaging so bad. it's all very well gaurding against someone stealing a disc in-store, but at what point does it become too much? when i have to spend five minutes opening a disc? when i have to resort to big knives? when i tear through the sleve peeling the seals off? gah. » « 05:01 20/01/05 | permalink | dvds movies theft rants

just for e, here's the wikipedia page on hipsters. » « 07:07 20/01/05 | permalink | wikipedia jokes

i usually avoid gizmodo linkage, but the keychain plants are too cool for school. » « 07:28 20/01/05 | permalink | geek gadgets plants

while reformating exif display on flickr i cam across this wonderfully tedious explaination of f/stops. » « 23:56 20/01/05 | permalink | cameras lenses photography

best self referential headline ever? quite possibly. [via stewart] » « 01:07 21/01/05 | permalink | cnn news headlines jokes

stew suspects that david chess has the world's bext weblog. » « 01:09 21/01/05 | permalink | weblogs stewart

gah. f was down for 5 hours after a routine database modification revealed massive innodb corruption which had somehow replicated to the slave. after splitting the cluster, our last backup was nine days old and a few million records short. eek. so a painstaking search and destroy for bad records was conducted. stupid mysql. » « 07:41 21/01/05 | permalink | flickr mysql innodb corruption databases

an earthworm jim database. awesome. it's like a webpage from the early 90s. doug tennaple is a genius. » « 08:38 21/01/05 | permalink | cartoons tv earthwormjim

linux io redirction - saved for later use. why can i never rememebr how to do this crap? » « 18:33 21/01/05 | permalink | linux redirection

backed up for later - the innodb hot backup script. faster than restoring from a dump, but more prone to corruption. » « 23:10 21/01/05 | permalink | innodb databases mysql backup

the css zen garden, 1990's style. nopw those are some high quality animations. » « 00:01 22/01/05 | permalink | css spoofs

if this isn't a sign of the coming apocalypse, i don't know what is. phones for pets. phones. for. pets. PHONES. FOR. PETS. » « 00:19 22/01/05 | permalink | phones animals pets apocalypse

goldfish racetrack! i wonder if you could seal up rotastack stuff and max a severely huge fish-track. that would be awesome. » « 00:27 22/01/05 | permalink | fish goldfish pets

bash is down! google/yahoo need to aquire them and get them some decent hosting. » « 01:55 22/01/05 | permalink | bash

more on the d+d theme (did i post the other d+d link?) - a practical guide to d+d themed sex from the wafterbaby [via mm] » « 19:47 22/01/05 | permalink | d+d sex

after watching ghost in the shell 2, i found out about the tv series - standalone complex. and now i have it on dvd. could be some good watching ahead. » « 05:53 23/01/05 | permalink | tv anime dvds

why is geomag (and it's precursor, supermag) so expensive? i need this stuff. » « 08:39 24/01/05 | permalink | games magnets

and while i'm on the thinkgeek toy kick, i want these lovely space invaders stickers. awesome » « 08:40 24/01/05 | permalink | toys spaceinvaders games

dinosaur comics is great - saw it a while back, but kal just relinked » « 17:33 25/01/05 | permalink | comics dinosaurs kallese

vacuum cleaner too unsightly? then cover it with a frightening animal cover. john's in the office and providing linkage. » « 21:52 25/01/05 | permalink | animals vacuums weirdcrap

the trailer for the forthcoming hitchhikers movie looks fun. [via e] » « 01:54 26/01/05 | permalink | movies thhgttg e trailers

the 12 club sounds like it was designed for me. obviously i've joined :) » « 07:18 28/01/05 | permalink | tshirts threadless

i saw these age ago, but didn't link - spiral escalators rock *so* hard. » « 07:47 28/01/05 | permalink | spirals escalators

creamy creamy cream cheesey cream cheese. taste my squirrelly wrath. [via matts] » « 18:30 28/01/05 | permalink | movies flash squirrells

go canada. go dot NET. go ASP. go errors! when a website stack traces because it couldn't load the 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word' pluigin, do you suspect the developers didn't know what they were doing? » « 05:05 30/01/05 | permalink | dotnet asp canada weblogs stacktrace

i'm not sure quite how awesome the iDog is, but it seems pretty awesome. i mean, come on - it can dance. » « 05:07 30/01/05 | permalink | apple music idog dancing

the cost of war site contains some interesting, if not suprising, statistics. » « 04:40 31/01/05 | permalink | statistics war america budget

i'm not sure how i ended up downloading the 60 day trial of microsofts's new one note, but it was a good download test (nice to get over 2 megabits at home). it didn't take long to get totally disillusioned - microsoft have lost the ability to create compelling UIs. i just didn't get it. what's it for? » « 05:29 31/01/05 | permalink | microsoft office onenote software

jeff is selling a fantastic wigu painting on ebay. when it gets closer the ending date, i may have to bid. it could be the only depiction of sherif pony's wife, outside of butter dimension3 » « 17:28 31/01/05 | permalink | wigu comics jeffrowland ebay sherifpony

metacritic's aggregated top ten movies of 2004 is pretty cool. » « 17:40 31/01/05 | permalink | movies 2004 meta

these flickr bookmarklets are really awesome. » « 17:49 31/01/05 | permalink | bookmarklets flickr

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