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Monthly Archives: September 2009

links for 2009-09-29

30-Sep-09

Amazon.com: McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (Vintage) (9781400095124): Misha Glenny: Books
In McMafia, Misha Glenny draws the dark map that lies on the other side of Tom Friedman's bright flat world. That connected globe not only brings software coders and supply-chain outsourcers closer together; it's also opened the gates to a criminal network [...]

links for 2009-09-28

29-Sep-09

The Dow Zero Insurgency
The nothing-can-be-believed chaos of the financial crisis created a golden opportunity for a blog run by a mysterious ex-hedge-funder with a dodgy past and conspiracy theories to burn.
(tags: @2read)

About | Scan Tailor
Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and [...]

links for 2009-09-27

28-Sep-09

The Power Of One
At age 17 Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.
(tags: @2read)

Search results for "wordpress theme" on Delicious
Bookmarks Saved From: oldest bookmark to now – 41772 Results
(tags: @2search)

WordPress › WP System Health « WordPress Plugins
This plugin provides a new Dashboard Widget (limit to [...]

links for 2009-09-26

27-Sep-09

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using gmail and google apps in mutt
ok, i will post a copy of my .muttrc, personal info like my passwords removed.
(tags: @2search)

Using gmail, Imap, Google Apps for Your domain « Dror’s Blog
As a die hard Unix/Linux user I have a real hard time using webmail. Gmail has some nice features, but even with [...]

links for 2009-09-25

26-Sep-09

The Beginner's Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog – Blogs – Lifehacker
WP SuperCache (Optimization): The first time a highly-trafficked site like Digg links to your blog, you'll wish you had installed this plug-in, which maintains high-speed, database-call free "cached" copies of your WordPress pages on your server. Your site will run faster and won't [...]

links for 2009-09-24

25-Sep-09

Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs
"Humans won't pay to watch dinosaurs ride motocross bikes forever," said Tark. "I'm gonna branch out. Target shooting. I'll be like those tough guys in the action movies. Is my chin strap tight?"
"It's fine," said Entippa. The dinosaurs straddled their bikes. "What movies are you talking about? Like the Rogue [...]

links for 2009-09-23

24-Sep-09

List of songs about California – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Well I got your late night call
You're in the center of it all
You're havin' a ball
And you're really doin' fine
A west coast time
And I believe you
But here's one for the coast
The people with the most
The pretty, pretty folks
The west coast folks
Yeah here's one for the coast
The [...]

links for 2009-09-22

23-Sep-09

Performance Monitor – Memory counters and logs in Windows Server 2003
(tags: @2read)

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration)
This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Debian Etch system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be [...]

links for 2009-09-20

21-Sep-09

Irish Freelance Jobs – irish freelance / contract work ireland
Finding freelance professionals to do short term contracts or one off jobs can be a nightmare.
We won't be able to solve the problems, but we can offer you the opportunity to advertise your Irish freelance jobs at NO cost.
(tags: @2file)

delicious/help/api
[Read/write access to your Delicious bookmarks and [...]

links for 2009-09-19

20-Sep-09

Remember The Milk – Quick Add
You can set up Quick Add for use with Firefox by dragging the "Add to RTM!" link below to your bookmarks toolbar.
(tags: firefox bookmarklets plugins calendar email work @2dl)

links for 2009-09-18

19-Sep-09

TechWire
I'm a journalist for The Sunday Business Post, a national Irish broadsheet newspaper (www.thepost.ie). I edit a consumer technology section in the newspaper and also a monthly business technology magazine, Computers In Business. I'm a thirty-something and I live in Glasnevin, Dublin.
(tags: blogs technology ireland newspapers news #rss.subscribed)

LeechBlock
LeechBlock is a simple productivity tool: an extension [...]

links for 2009-09-17

18-Sep-09

Flickr Photo Download: Day 250 September 7th 2009 Color me Beautiful
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air – explode softly – and send thousands, millions, of little [...]

links for 2009-09-16

17-Sep-09

xFruits
xFruits is a Web 2.0 service. You do not need any specific learning to deal with it.
It is a free online service offering to every user the possibility of:
- Enriching your home
- Enlarging your blog's functionalities
- Creating, generally, your information system from the RSS feed
XFruits makes possible the Mashup RSS creation in a very simple [...]

links for 2009-09-15

16-Sep-09

Helvetimail – josef richter
Some of you guys wanted simple minimalist Gmail skin? Here is Helvetimail…
Please note that this is originally Jon Hicks' design for Helvetireader. I just applied it to Helvetimail and Helvetwitter. See also Ad Taylor's Helvetical.
(tags: @2dl)

Dark Stores – BRIAN ULRICH : NOT IF BUT WHEN
(tags: @2search)

nmap: –top-ports option
So, for both TCP and [...]

links for 2009-09-14

15-Sep-09

An introduction to custom Xen networking
I've been running Xen for a few weeks now and until now I've been happy with the default networking setup installed. Only when I decided to install Xen upon the server which is hosting this website did I need to explore the way Xen sets up networking.
Xen is pretty good [...]

links for 2009-09-13

14-Sep-09

Party Steve has city's party pulse — chicagotribune.com
Party Steve is a 26-year-old former ballpark beer vendor who for the last half-dozen years has sniffed out interesting parties and shows and tipped off people about them. And not just a few people, but dozens of them, who once they got the word would tell other people. [...]

links for 2009-09-12

13-Sep-09

Be a Better Man in 30 Days
During the month of June 2009, The Art of Manliness ran a series of posts called “30 Days to a Better Man.” Each day we created a task for Art of Manliness readers to complete that would help them improve in different facets of their lives such as relationships, [...]

links for 2009-09-11

12-Sep-09

When Your Dream Dies
On a refrigerated, colorless Saturday morning in the no-McDonald's town of Walnut, Ill., Kenny Wilcoxen walked along the street carrying the letter he had waited for his whole life, the one that meant that after 20 years he was finally going to ref the state high school football finals. On the other [...]

links for 2009-09-11

12-Sep-09

When Your Dream Dies
On a refrigerated, colorless Saturday morning in the no-McDonald's town of Walnut, Ill., Kenny Wilcoxen walked along the street carrying the letter he had waited for his whole life, the one that meant that after 20 years he was finally going to ref the state high school football finals. On the other [...]

links for 2009-09-10

11-Sep-09

Q & A: August 23, 2009 Frank Mankiewicz Vice Chairman, Hill & Knowlton
MANKIEWICZ: Well, I thought that’s a remarkable insight, and I think every president maybe feels that, perhaps, but doesn’t do much about it. I know some people, George Reedy I think particularly, who had been one of Johnson’s press secretaries, said the problem [...]