Linklog » Archives » January 2005

ooh ooh ooh - a weblog about t-shirts. »« 00:35 07/01/05 | permalink

hobbix is new weblog software in ruby. it's site is super-rad - must try the product. »« 14:41 10/01/05 | permalink | ruby weblogs

some photos from under tokyo of the flood systems. looks like an awesome counter-strike level. [via coates] »« 14:42 10/01/05 | permalink | games

hats for cats. and whole outfits. search your feelings. »« 14:43 10/01/05 | permalink

a blast from the past - real programmers don't use pascal. »« 15:02 10/01/05 | permalink

e found a recipe for battenburg. awesome. why doesn't canada have the king of cakes? »« 15:05 10/01/05 | permalink

tom has basically gone crazy, but in a cool apple way. »« 18:39 10/01/05 | 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. »« 19:31 10/01/05 | 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 »« 19:40 10/01/05 | permalink | music

denise is taking over the world with her subway work »« 19:44 10/01/05 | 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 :) »« 20:29 10/01/05 | permalink

this guy would own at counter strike. [via bash] »« 13:50 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) »« 21:53 11/01/05 | 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. »« 01:15 12/01/05 | permalink | mysql

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

the flickr carnivore rules. like a really invasive zeitgeist. »« 09:29 12/01/05 | permalink

as discussed a few times since minimac came out: g4 cube fishbowl »« 09:23 13/01/05 | permalink

david ascher picks out the best quotes from my presentation at phpwest. »« 00:29 15/01/05 | permalink | php

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

spent six hours in the colo today, moving flickr. tomorrow i will be 24. go me. »« 20:51 16/01/05 | permalink

incase you haven't tried it before (and i suspect it's a north-america only product), mashmallow creme is awesome. »« 21:24 16/01/05 | 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. »« 23:22 16/01/05 | permalink | tech

just bookmarking jeff's notes of phpwest. »« 23:40 16/01/05 | permalink | php

jeff's new comic has started. here's hoping it's awesome. looks interesting so far. »« 23:55 17/01/05 | permalink | comics

where does george find this stuff? awesome d+d scenario »« 17:19 18/01/05 | permalink

how many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? what, you mean you don't know?!?! »« 21:35 18/01/05 | 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) »« 21:36 18/01/05 | permalink | music

i'd been talking about it since it came out, but this is awesome times one million. [via aaron] »« 13:39 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. »« 21:01 19/01/05 | permalink | dvds movie theft rants

just for e, here's the wikipedia page on hipsters. »« 23:07 19/01/05 | permalink | wikipedia jokes

i usually avoid gizmodo linkage, but the keychain plants are too cool for school. »« 23:28 19/01/05 | permalink | geek gadgets plants

while reformating exif display on flickr i cam across this wonderfully tedious explaination of f/stops. »« 15:56 20/01/05 | permalink | cameras lenses photography

best self referential headline ever? quite possibly. [via stewart] »« 17:07 20/01/05 | permalink | cnn news headlines jokes

stew suspects that david chess has the world's bext weblog. »« 17:09 20/01/05 | 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. »« 23:41 20/01/05 | 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. »« 00:38 21/01/05 | permalink | cartoons tv earthwormjim

linux io redirction - saved for later use. why can i never rememebr how to do this crap? »« 10:33 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. »« 15:10 21/01/05 | permalink | innodb databases mysql backup

the css zen garden, 1990's style. nopw those are some high quality animations. »« 16:01 21/01/05 | 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. »« 16:19 21/01/05 | 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. »« 16:27 21/01/05 | permalink | fish goldfish pets

bash is down! google/yahoo need to aquire them and get them some decent hosting. »« 17:55 21/01/05 | 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] »« 11:47 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. »« 21:53 22/01/05 | permalink | tv anime dvds

why is geomag (and it's precursor, supermag) so expensive? i need this stuff. »« 00:39 24/01/05 | permalink | games magnets

and while i'm on the thinkgeek toy kick, i want these lovely space invaders stickers. awesome »« 00:40 24/01/05 | permalink | toys spaceinvaders games

dinosaur comics is great - saw it a while back, but kal just relinked »« 09:33 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. »« 13:52 25/01/05 | permalink | animals vacuums weirdcrap

the trailer for the forthcoming hitchhikers movie looks fun. [via e] »« 17:54 25/01/05 | permalink | movie thhgttg e trailers

the 12 club sounds like it was designed for me. obviously i've joined :) »« 23:18 27/01/05 | permalink | tshirts threadless

i saw these age ago, but didn't link - spiral escalators rock *so* hard. »« 23:47 27/01/05 | permalink | spirals escalators

creamy creamy cream cheesey cream cheese. taste my squirrelly wrath. [via matts] »« 10:30 28/01/05 | permalink | movie 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? »« 21:05 29/01/05 | 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. »« 21:07 29/01/05 | permalink | apple music idog dancing

the cost of war site contains some interesting, if not suprising, statistics. »« 20:40 30/01/05 | 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? »« 21:29 30/01/05 | 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 »« 09:28 31/01/05 | permalink | wigu comics jeffrowland ebay sherifpony

metacritic's aggregated top ten movies of 2004 is pretty cool. »« 09:40 31/01/05 | permalink | movie 2004 meta

these flickr bookmarklets are really awesome. »« 09:49 31/01/05 | permalink | bookmarklets flickr

nyu has a nice win95 download page including the now-old but still useful cosmo vrml plugin. »« 16:45 31/01/05 | permalink | vrml windows software

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