Having trouble reciting alphabet names over the phone? Here’s a truly Australian wordlist you can use.
Aratula
Brisbane
Chinchilla
Dalby
Eromanga
F - ?
Goondowindi
H - ?
Illawarra
Jindabyne
Kallangur
L - ?
Melbourne
Nebo
O - ?
Perth
Queensland
Roma
Sydney
Tasmania
Uluru
Victoria
Wogga Wogga
X -?
Yamba
Z - ?

I was wondering why my posts aren’t showing up at the Planet Python aggregator. It turned out that Wordpress 2.5.1 broke feeds. More information at http://www.onebigdog.net/feedburner-and-wordpress-251/. Direct link to patches <a href=”http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7843″>here</a>.

Drayton Bird posted a wonderfully written rejection letter from the BBC.

If link appears broken, here’s a link to the image.
Drayton notes that the operative sentence reads:
“You may also like to note that calling our head of human resources a skank ho does not gain you any plus points when being shortlisted for a position.”
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If your Zope application is unstable (i.e. crashing) running ZODBCDA against Oracle drivers, try turning off Connection Pooling.

Ford Harding wrote: “Sales mean survival”, and Rain Making is aimed at teaching what most schools (engineering, accounting, law) have neglected to teach - knowing how to build a business, and to have “more control over one’s destiny.”
I was fortunate to receive a review copy. It’s a good read, and I know of a [...]

Scientists put “suicide genes” into their living creations so that if they escape the lab, they can be triggered to kill themselves
Source
Shades of John Parker Hammond?

Three problems with this.
1. Getting a Master’s degree is a problem because I would have to actually finish my Bachelor’s first.
2. Getting a Bachelor’s degree is a problem because I would have to attend school to do it.
3. Attending school is a problem because I have Attention Defic–OH LOOK! PONIES!!
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Check out this self perpetuating viral link generation technique:

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:

The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll [...]

Somebody get this guy into direct mail. Quick.
When the initial excitement of taking delivery of my new pen started to wear off I realised that I shouldn’t just write for the fun of it, this should be a serious enterprise, so by the second day of ownership I started to take a little more care [...]

Here’s a Compact Inverted Calendar for Business Cards, good for 2008 and 2009.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 [...]

It is far better to tell those fearful [of terrorists] that in a far away land, there are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who fear us, and some who even hate us, because of what their political leaders and religious leaders tell them about us. Some of them would even venture to our lands to [...]

There’s a story about fishermen being forced to throw excess cod into the sea because of fishing limits. Couldn’t the fisherman sell excess cod to those who have not caught enough? Or those fisherman who didn’t catch enough sell their quota to the fishermen who caught too many?

Someone asked me for the old VB6 line numbering utility that I had written, and I had put it up here. Apparently there are some free ones around but they clobber the version compatibility.
VB6 Line Numbering Utility

I’m sorry, I don’t have much time, but here are some quick notes. Source: Lessig’s lecture on corruption.
http://lessig.org/blog/2007/10/corruption_lecture_alpha_versi.html
Google’s seminal idea of pagerank follows directly from the model of scientific journals cross referencing and citing one another for authority. It didn’t take long for spammers to recognize that an easy way to game the system is [...]

Leon Brambick has been grappling with the conundrum of navigational spaghetti (warning: gratuitious drawings of the Spaghetti Monster).
If we can’t implement URLs for easy bookmarking in desktop applications, what about having a site map for usabilities’ sake?
Example from KwikPay Payroll Program:

I’m testing out wordpress with sqlite, it seems to work pretty well so far.
I’ve got it in a patch file format, and added some fixes to make it work with PHP4.

diff -Pbu -r /home/private/wordpress/data/.htaccess ./data/.htaccess
— /home/private/wordpress/data/.htaccess Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
+++ ./data/.htaccess Mon Sep 10 00:51:43 2007
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+order deny,allow
+deny from all
Binary files /home/private/wordpress/data/wordpress.db and [...]

This is built with .Net 2.0 framework. Only bits are working at the moment.
Perhaps someone wants to port it over to Mono?

Check out this ABC radio interview. The story leads in with an interesting study that shows that the comfortable indoor temperature has risen over the years and this means more heating costs. But why?

India is outraged, and so they should, given the shabby treatment of Dr Haneef by the Australian authorities.
More worrisome is that polls in Australian online newspapers show about 50/50 support for the government’s stance to revoke the doctor’s visa. It just goes to show how deep the paranoia runs, and how hard the government is [...]

The Sopranos Finale Explained:
But in reality, when you die, it ends. There’s no more; you don’t get to see the reactions of other people to your death. You don’t get to do anything.
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