Blathering for Wednesday, 15 June 2011, and other posts

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	Wed, 15 Jun 2011

Blathering for Wednesday, 15 June 2011

10:34

An Effort by Deep-Sea Divers to Repair a New York Water Tunnel - NYTimes.com

An old, but interesting, article about some of the maintenance problems with NYC's water supply. Via JWZ.

10:51

For Leaky New York Aqueduct, Bypass Tunnel Is Planned - NYTimes.com

A more recent article about the leaky water tunnel. It sounds like they're going to build a bypass for the leakiest bits. I wonder why the tunnel has to be so deep?

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	Mon, 13 Jun 2011

Blathering for Monday, 13 June 2011

21:45

Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse

I don't normally comment on competitive businesses, but this analysis of Groupon as a subprime loan business is really interesting.

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	Thu, 09 Jun 2011

Blathering for Thursday, 09 June 2011

00:36

Reverse Engineering Superbugs

An interesting read about reverse engineering superbugs from someone more famous for hacking on computer hardware.

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	Sun, 05 Jun 2011

Blathering for Sunday, 05 June 2011

03:37

A Year at War - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Very moving.

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	Wed, 25 May 2011

Blathering for Wednesday, 25 May 2011

03:39

Before And After of the Day

Wow. Before and after shots of a suburb hit by a tornado.

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	Thu, 19 May 2011

Blathering for Friday, 20 May 2011

07:49

Richard's Notes Blog Archive Canon DSLR Error 99 fix

This page seems to have fixed my Rebel XT error 99 problems.

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	Tue, 17 May 2011

Blathering for Wednesday, 18 May 2011

09:01

Australian journalist arrested for technology conference report

You know a story has gotten big when its starts to be covered in the mainstream overseas press...

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	Mon, 16 May 2011

Blathering for Tuesday, 17 May 2011

01:14

YouTube - "Jersey Shore" Gone Wilde, Part 1

Excellent.

01:23

SYDNP3731_17052011_094810AM.jpg

I wonder if we should incorporate this into our LCA bid.

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	Fri, 13 May 2011

Blathering for Saturday, 14 May 2011

04:57

Mike Rowe Senate Testimony : Dirty Jobs : Discovery Channel

Mike has a point.

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	Wed, 11 May 2011

Blathering for Thursday, 12 May 2011

05:22

Two Factor SSH with Google Authenticator

I set this up on one of my machines today. It seems to work well.

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Blathering for Wednesday, 11 May 2011

23:37

Brand Depot diehards hoping for Costco salvation - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

12 stores, and 12 customers! That's one per customer!

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	Mon, 09 May 2011

Blathering for Monday, 09 May 2011

22:26

Teachers' union hits out at pay for results - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

I know not everyone agrees with me here, but I think performance pay is the first step to improving how teachers are regarded in our society. Surely the only people who object to performance pay are those who secretly know they under perform?

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	Thu, 05 May 2011

Blathering for Friday, 06 May 2011

05:04

Free Postage From Amazon UK To Australia Now Permanent

This is good. Note that it appears to have expanded from the original "books, music and DVDs" to "all items except gift certificates".

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Blathering for Thursday, 05 May 2011

04:11

MythTV & the HD Homerun Tuner in Australia

Useful for rebuilding my MythTV box

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	Wed, 27 Apr 2011

Blathering for Thursday, 28 April 2011

02:45

How to chroot Ubuntu using Live CD to fix GRUB rescue prompt at Black God

Ubuntu 10.10 left me with an unbootable machine after a fresh install. This page was really helpful.

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	Thu, 14 Apr 2011

Blathering for Friday, 15 April 2011

00:16

Automatically generate regular expressions with Txt2re

This looks useful

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	Tue, 12 Apr 2011

Blathering for Tuesday, 12 April 2011

22:25

Cisco Shutters Flip Cameras Forever

Huh. My flip is way better than my phone camera. It seems a bit early to declare loss to me.

23:54

How did the CIA and FBI Know that Australian Government Computers were Hacked?

Why didn't the Australian media raise any of these questions? Seems like obvious basic reporting to me.

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	Mon, 04 Apr 2011

Blathering for Monday, 04 April 2011

01:00

Latham savages 'wooden, childless' Gillard - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I find it offensive that Ms Gillard is somehow deemed less human because she hasn't had kids.

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	Sun, 03 Apr 2011

Blathering for Sunday, 03 April 2011

01:24

Simple DTMF decoder pulls numbers from YouTube videos

Nice project.

23:45

The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City (Excerpt) by John Scalzi | tor.com | Science fiction and fantasy | Stories

Love this: "others said it was very similar to the unforgettable Pounding of Skalandarharia, in which hailstones the size of melons destroyed the citys melon harvest"

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