Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog

Bacon on the gas grill

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/11/30/bacon-on-the-gas-grill/ "I deleted Whole Foods from the car’s GPS system when the Dow slid below 8000"

Bulk Rename Utility

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php crazy looking but useful

Three Reasons Why Netbooks Just Aren’t Good Enough

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/29/three-reasons-why-netbooks-just-arent-good-enough/ I've been wondering if there'd be some netbook backlash

Target Cart Ride [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yFegrRD0gc excellent!

Micron to launch hyperfast SSD, touts 1GB/sec. throughput

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9121698 wow, that looks like some kick-ass performance!

VGA to USB power!

http://www.instructables.com/id/VGA_to_USB_power/ nice hack

What Sun Should Do

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/24/What-Sun-Should-Do wise words

Intel's X25-E Extreme solid-state drive - The Tech Report

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15931 looks like a winner!

Yahoo! Local Annotations Photo for Frank's Barber Shop

http://local.yahoo.com/slideshow.php?id=21615774 FAIL!

No more crashes for my MySQL

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2008/11/no-more-crashes-for-my-mysql.html "query of death"

Yahoo! Engineering München

http://carlo.zottmann.org/2008/11/24/es-war-einmal%e2%80%a6-yahoo-engineering-munchen/ Yahoo has shut down engineering operations in Germany

SUCCESS

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/11/20/funny-pictures-success/ it can lead to fail

2008 Storage Hierarchy

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/21/2008-Storage-Hierarchy Tim lays out some facts about storage for us to think about.

EnhanceBOX E8-MS 8-Drive Desktop Disk Array Enclosure

http://www.scsi4me.com/enhancebox-e8-ms-8-drive-desktop-disk-array-enclosure-for-8x-3-5-sas-sata-ii-hdds-minisas-host-interface.html WANT

MySQL 6.0.8 Feature: Interface for Semi-synchronous Replication

http://larsthalmann.blogspot.com/2008/10/mysql-608-feature-interface-for-semi.html progress on improving replication

GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth...

http://kiloblog.com/post/sharing-code-for-what-its-worth/ "This is a pivot of the traditional open source project website. A pivot from project to programmer."

Memcached as a L2 Cache for Innodb - The Waffle Grid Project

http://www.bigdbahead.com/?p=73 funky! I like it.

Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective

http://qntm.org/?gay "Altering your database schema to accommodate gay marriage can be easy or difficult depending on how smart you were when you originally set up your system to accommodate heterosexuality only"

SFGov: Taxicab Commission: Taxicab Companies

http://www.sfgov.org/site/taxicommission_index.asp?id=8125 wow, they even show the revoked ones!

N601SF Sale: 1979 Cessna 182Q w/Garmin 530W/430W/IFR

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/N601SF/ buy our airplane! we don't use it enough...

Ultimate Windows Tweaker From WinVistaClub

http://www.winvistaclub.com/Ultimate_Windows_Tweaker.html this could come in handy on my test visa box

'Desktop Tower Defense' Maker Raises $1 Million For More Addictive Timewasters

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/desktop-tower-defense-maker-raises-1-million-for-more-addictive-timewasters oh shit! I'm totally screwed...

craigslist search help

http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/search now with an "Advanced Searching" section that I wrote last week to showcase some of our search capabilities

ISODisk

http://www.isodisk.com/ free software to mount and create ISO disk images in Windows

UNetbootin

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ "UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely."

Is there such a thing as pure genius?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/15/malcolm-gladwell-outliers-extract "We pretend that success is a matter of individual merit. That is not the whole story. These are stories about people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of society. Their success was not of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up."

Merlin Mann on Time and Attention (Getting Things Done)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOgHE5nEq04 a sort of follow-up to Inbox Zero, but I didn't get quite as much out of it

review: High Performance MySQL 2nd Ed.

http://oracleopensource.com/2008/11/13/review-high-performance-mysql-2nd-ed/ a positive but short review

Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html the dude is crazy, I tell you... crazy!

24 Hour DBT2 run on the Intel X-25M SSD

http://www.bigdbahead.com/?p=71 hmm...

eHarmony Rejection [image]

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s7/slayer320/Untitled-5.jpg hahahaha...

Dual Core Atom: Intel D945GCLF2 & Atom 330 Review

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/D945GCLF2_atom_330/ I'm gonna get me one of these

priceline.com works great in a depression

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/11/12/pricelinecom-works-great-in-a-depression/ that ts somehow not surprising...

DBSlayer

http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer/wiki "a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP, meaning it's simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web framework you choose"

jsTree :: javascript treeview component

http://www.jstree.com/ if only I did more HTML stuff

Displaying code on your blog

http://devver.net/blog/2008/11/displaying-code-on-your-blog/ hey, I'm gonna use that!

High quality YouTube video hack

http://www.kottke.org/08/11/high-quality-youtube-video-hack I had no idea... cool!

The End of Wall Street's Boom

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom an excellent piece by Michael Lews on the mortgage crisis and wall street... it's a must-read

Create a Bootable USB Drive the Easy Way in Ubuntu 8.10

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/11/12/create-a-bootable-usb-drive-the-easy-way-in-ubuntu-810/ hey, this means I could get a notebook without a CD-ROM and not have to worry

Jerks At Gizmodo: Way Uncool

http://regex.info/blog/2008-11-13/995 the pageview whores at gizmodo try to rip of Jeffrey with little credit. classy, guys.

The philosopher and the wolf

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/08/sm_philosopherwolf.xml I now have a strange desire to read the book

Booting Debian in 14 seconds

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/620 excellent!

Samsung NC10 Battery Life Almost 8 Hours with SSD

http://blog.laptopmag.com/samsung-nc10-battery-life-almost-8-hours-with-ssd in other words, it's not worth swapping the disk... but still an impressive netbook

Synergy: MySQL & Sun

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2008/11/synergy-mysql-sun.html Mark asks a lot of good questions that need to be answered

How to set up host interface networking for VirtualBox on Ubuntu

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/11/05/how-to-set-up-host-interface-networking-for-virtualbox-on-ubuntu/ ooh, this could be REALLY useful

Yahoo pays advisors $110 million for Microsoft, Google negotiations

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40101/118/ well, that was money well spent

perl-mysql-async

http://code.google.com/p/perl-mysql-async/ Pure-perl asynchronous MySQL driver

Recent Earthquakes - Info for event nc51210970

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51210970.htm I think I sort felt this one

Jackson, MS: Schools not allowing students to mention Obama

http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=9317315&nav=2CSf hey, maybe they're racist fucks

Blind pilot guided to land by RAF

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7715345.stm impressive effort!

Party’s over: Craigslist cracking down on erotic services

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11/07/partys-over-craigslist-cracking-down-on-erotic-services/ oh, please...

Craigslist to crack down on prostitution ads

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/06/financial/f091354S71.DTL&tsp=1 "Craigslist filed lawsuits this week against 14 software and Internet companies that help people who post erotic service ads to circumvent the Web site's defenses against inappropriate content and illegal activity."

Redhat and AMD migrate VMs across CPUs

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/06/redhat-amd-migrate-vms-across fancy!

What to Look for in a Massage Chair

http://www.massagechairs.com/What-To-Look-For.html in case you're wondering

Palin spent more on clothes than previously reported, McCain aides furious at her ‘outrageous profligacy.’

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/05/palin-clothes/ I'm sure she was just trying to stimulate the economy...

Cool Tools: Lumber Rack Storage System

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003283.php these could come in handy

Vote Obama or McCain: Global Electoral College | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/vote2008/index.cfm what the red/blue map would look like if the whole world voted

Dough-Nu-Matic

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/a2d2/ wow, a personal donut machine! I love technology.

Stopping our broadcast...

http://www.yliveblog.com/blog/2008/11/03/stopping-our-broadcast/ yahoo live is now dead. not surprised.

Calories Do Count

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/dining/29calories.html?_r=1&8dpc=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin well, duh!

Linux: It Just Works

http://taint.org/2008/11/03/115835a.html heh, good to see stories like this now and then

Never underestimate Microsoft’s ability to turn a corner

http://scobleizer.com/2008/11/01/never-underestimate-microsofts-ability-to-turn-a-corner/ no shit

Top 10 Redonk Election Quotes as told by kittens

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/10/top-10-2008-ele.html nice kittehs!