Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog

Op-Ed Columnist - The Sandra Bullock Trade - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/opinion/30brooks.html?ref=opinion interesting article on happiness with a really stupid and misleading title

xtrabackup-1.1

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/03/24/xtrabackup-1-1/ woo!

MSI tells 97,000 customers to 'Read The F***ing Manual'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/28/msi_support_forum_email/ For the uninitiated, April Fools' jokes typically occur on April 1 - not March 25.

pwnat - NAT to NAT client-server communication

http://samy.pl/pwnat/ very interesting...

I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die

http://teddziuba.com/2010/03/i-cant-wait-for-nosql-to-die.html YES

Photos of me presenting at The First San Francisco Redis Meetup

http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Redis-Meetup/photos/865167/#13912519 it was a fun meetup

VirtualBox Port Forwarding with Windows Host

http://sk.c-wd.net/wp/2008/08/17/virtualbox-port-forwarding-with-windows-host/ I wish they'd put this in the GUI, but whatever. this works too

How the TSA Handles Monkey Helpers

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/specialneeds/editorial_1056.shtm#2 this page cracks my shit up

full-text diary: the official sphinx blog

http://sphinxsearch.com/blog/ yay, glad to see this!

Good sleep, good learning, good life

http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Exercise sleep is important!

The MessagePack Project

http://msgpack.sourceforge.net/ Extremely efficient object serialization library. It's like JSON, but very fast and small.

Clean Install Windows 7 With Upgrade Media and Product Key on Formatted or Empty Blank Hard Drive » My Digital Life

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/10/27/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media-and-product-key-on-formatted-or-empty-blank-hard-drive/ this was handy for an install I did recently

Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media

http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/clean_install_upgrade_media.asp good info here too

Scaling writes in MySQL

http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2009/09/scaling-writes-in-mysql.html very cool

skipfish - A fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool.

http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/ appears to be very fast too

Google's Python Class - Google's Python Class - Google Code

http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ learn python the way new googlers do, apparently

NTFS symbolic link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link holy crap! widnows got symlinks

My Flight KSCK To KRHV - Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=215902323628690844324.00048206a7b5bcaa3ed5b as recorded by My Tracks on my Morotola Droid. Not bad!

Redis cheat-sheet v1.0

http://masonoise.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/redis-cheat-sheet-v1-0/ nice job

Tim Bray works for Google now

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google interesting times... good news

Common MySQL Queries Tree

http://www.artfulsoftware.com/infotree/queries.php?&bw=1280 a crazy-assed list of MySQL queries for common problems

French Toast Oatmeal and Banana Nut Oatmeal

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/02/french-toast-oatmeal-and-banana-nut-breakfast-recipe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseats%2Frecipes+%28Serious+Eats%3A+Recipes%29 yum

AppScale

http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ AppScale is a platform that allows users to deploy and host their own Google App Engine applications. It executes automatically over Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus as well as Xen and KVM. It has been developed and is maintained by the RACELab at UC Santa Barbara.

re2: a regex library from google

http://code.google.com/p/re2/ RE2 is a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python. It is a C++ library.

Madwifi installation for Atheros card in Ubuntu 9.10

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309072 this made my T61 work under 9.10 64bit

Vagrant

http://vagrantup.com/ Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments.

Migrating MySQL latin1 to utf8 – Character Set Options

http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/migrating-mysql-latin1-to-utf8-preparation-2-2010-02-22/ some notes on stuff to watch out for

Setting Up Irssi with Freenode

http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/setting-up-irssi/ handy

NCSA Mosaic source code on GitHub

http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic that's kind of awesome

Must-Have Windows Software (or Windows Programs that I use)

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/must-have-windows-programs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catonmat+%28good+coders+code%2C+great+reuse%29 a good list of windows tools

cnewmark: a brief bio

http://www.cnewmark.com/2010/03/a-brief-bio.html a bit about craig newmark and what he's up to these days

Plain Parts - Pleasant Grove, California

http://plainparts.com/index.shtml they have our old citabria

Advice: Do NOT Get A Circumcision On Craigslist

http://consumerist.com/2010/03/advice-do-not-get-a-circumcision-on-craigslist.html uh... DUH!

How many hours of pure work do you put in a day?

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b8qho/how_many_hours_of_pure_work_do_you_put_in_a_day/ the comments in this thread really crack my shit up

node.js redis client

http://github.com/fictorial/redis-node-client/ all async, all the time

Shannon index

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_index one of several diversity indices used to measure diversity in categorical data. It is simply the Information entropy of the distribution, treating species as symbols and their relative population sizes as the probability.

Scale Stack

http://scalestack.org/ Eric Day's new project

Veg Food & Fit

http://www.vegfoodandfit.com/ tasty and healthy