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  • Cloning Kubuntu (1223292508|%O ago) - How to clone a nicely running Linux configuration to a new system. I did this with a Kubuntu set-up but it's a general technique that will work with any Linux box. [linux ubuntu]
  • New Macbooks (1223572889|%O ago) - What surprises will we see from Apple on October 14th? []
  • Economics Of Evil (1216887704|%O ago) - For some time I've been studying the creation of on-line communities. One of our principles in the activist world is that a community needs a bad guy. [trolls]
  • Aliopacto (1216658015|%O ago) - I've been writing short stories over the years. They tend to disturb, that is the point. []
  • Continuous Exposure (1216039737|%O ago) - It struck me that the whole concept of digital camera, in imitating the old film cameras, has a fundamental inefficiency. There is, perhaps, a better way. [gadgets shouldexist]
  • Light Notebook Shootout (1215788897|%O ago) - After several months of using a MacBook Air, I picked up a Lenovo X61. [gadgets ubuntu]
  • Day Zero (1215786968|%O ago) - Starting a new blog with Wikidot. While Wikidot has been an excellent tool for websites of all kinds, it's lacked some basic blogging facilities. [meta wikidot]
  • Power Booster (1224417092|%O ago) - This really should exist: a simple external battery system for portable computers. [gadgets shouldexist]
  • IPv6 (1242822093|%O ago) - A prediction of how and when IPv6 will become widely used. [ipv6 piracy progress]
  • Communications (1242594042|%O ago) - Cleaning out an old notebook, I found this article that I wrote in 1999. Surprisingly, it still makes sense, so here, saved from the Delete button of history, is an analysis of Communications, and kind of a prediction of Facebook and Twitter. [facebook pink]
  • 10 Principles for AMQP (1241352409|%O ago) - Ten ways that AMQP can be made simpler, more backwards compatible, more interesting, and overall more enjoyable and successful for all who work on it and use it. [amqp community sermon]
  • AMQP, Sea, Sun, and Desert (1239212115|%O ago) - A brief report from the AMQP Conference at San Diego (AMQP'09) with photos of the event and the nearby Anza-Borrego desert state park. [amqp photos sandiego]
  • Red Hat Claims AMQP (1238075190|%O ago) - Brian Che is Product Manager at Red Hat for their MRG messaging product, which includes an AMQP server. [amqp lecture patent]
  • Two Day Computing (1236944031|%O ago) - It's taken a long time to arrive but finally, here is a full-featured portable computer that runs for two full days on a single battery charge and costs about $475. A hands-on report… [eee gadgets linux]
  • Obama and the End of Politics (1232820658|%O ago) - Watching Obama's inaguration, the whole world surely is aware that this is a historic event. But quite why is difficult to understand. It can't simply be the end of Bush, nor the election of a non-white to the most important job in the world. In this article I'll explain what I think is really happening, and what it means for our modern world. We have witnessed a revolution, but one that is far from over. [internet politics]
  • Passing The Turing Test (1224424756|%O ago) - There's a lot of talk of Turing Tests recently. Can it really be so hard to fool people? [humour]
  • Spirit Hotel, Bratislava (1223646338|%O ago) - Perhaps the strangest, yet compellingly enjoyable, hotel I've ever stayed in. [tourism]
  • Brussels Les Bains (1217001711|%O ago) - Bruxelles-les-Bain is a kind of month-long party - bar - playground that the city erects along the old canal zone. [beach people photos tourism]
  • How I'm Voting, and Why (1244210384|%O ago) - This Sunday Belgians vote for local, regional, and European Union representatives. I'm going to vote for the party that I consider to be the most pro-business, pro-market, pro-competition. That is, the Greens. Here's why. [politics]
  • Review: Handpresso Wild (1249126086|%O ago) - Gadget review: Handpresso Wild [low-carbon-high-lifestyle]
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