Hoosgot

http://www.thetarquin.com/FiftyTwoTuesdays/?p=502 asks Hoosgot,

Intro: Hey, did you hear the one about the deaf trombone player?  .  .  .   Yeah, neither has he. Listening: Well, I finally managed to break, at least temporarily, my Silversun Pickups addiction.  It required a potent cocktail of the new Killers album, the latest Luomo album, and several listens through The Shondes’ The Red Sea. Now I talked about the Killers album last week, and it’s just grown on me since.  But the surprise find of the week was this band Luomo.  Maybe it’s just me, but until I ran across a tweet on Jeph Jacques’ twitter feed about their album Convivial.  He mentioned that it’s a blend of good modern techno and vocal house, both things of which …

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http://www.delgrosso.com/2008/12/research-assistance/ asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb: I need a little help with a few topics for some upcoming projects, and since I don’t have a research assistant, I thought maybe a few of you brilliant people in my audience would be able to point me in the right direction1. 1) I need detailed information from a working linguist or historian about Latino-Punic script, of the variety found in Carthaginian ruins in modern-day Tunisia (and/or Libya). 2) Also on the language front, I’m looking for someone who knows a considerable amount about Old French, specifically early development of the langue d’oc and any influences on it from North Africa and Moorish Spain2. 3) This one is for all of you: I’m looking for people who …

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http://illandancient.blogspot.com/2008/12/day-seven.html asks Hoosgot,

Hmm, day seven of being unemployed. Still no idea want I want to do, still haven’t really applied for anything, still not signed on. Right now I’m in Borders, having a coffee with Aref-Adib, plotting world domination and why Karl Marx had no place for art when he pencilled in his communist utopia. Need to pick up PR for Dummies while I’m here. And …

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http://mysqlbarbeque.blogspot.com/2008/12/ssh-tunneling-between-databases-with.html asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb I saw recently an interesting installation at a company. This company had databases in two different locations and they established a connection using SSH tunneling. The thing that looked very interesting to me is, they setup a dedicated machine that had a MySQL instance on it. That database was mostly empty, but it had a port open o …

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http://foohack.com/2008/12/nerdery/ asks Hoosgot,

David Spade will forever have a special place in my heart for what he did in the movie Tommy Boy. I’m not sure if it was his creation, but in that movie, Spade delivered a line that added one of my favorite words to the english language: My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators. I saw the movie back in high school when it was in the theater. Immediately—I mean, before we had gotten out of our seats—we were using “nerdery” to refer to our pack of nerds . It’s like there was a linguistic void waiting to be filled, one that we had somehow never noticed before, and that term came to our …

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http://bahumbug.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/escaping-the-festive-season/ asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb, any recommendations for a relaxing break over the so-called festive season? Ideally somewhere local to southwest England, to avoid excessive travel misery. Should be free of humbuggery such as piped muzak, tinsel and lights, cut-down or artificial trees, or fat men in red and white. I had contemplated taking the ferry from Plymouth …

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http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/visual-controls-for-spreadsheets/ asks Hoosgot,

Some time ago, Paul Walk remarked that “Yahoo Pipes do for web development what the spreadsheet did for non-web development before it (Microsoft Excel has been described as the most widely used Integrated Development Environment)”. After seeing how Google spreadsheets could be used as part of quick online mashup at the recent Mashed Library, Paul revised this observation along the lines of “the online spreadsheet do for web development what the spreadsheet did for non-web development before it”. In An Ad Hoc Youtube Playlist Player Gadget, Via Google Spreadsheets , I showed how a Google gadget can be used as a container for arbitrary Javascript code that can be used to process the contents of one or more Google spreadsheet cells, …

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http://fedorarules.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/wii/ asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb I am thinking about buying a Wii for the familly this chrismas, but im a little unsure what games to buy, I was thinking of the following ones. Zelda Mario Carts Mario Universe Is there any other cool games out there i need to own

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http://silentcoder.co.za/silentcoder/?p=380 asks Hoosgot,

No tourist, no traffic and summer weather. It’s the only nice week we get between March and January. Most years we do get a nice month in February though. Dear lazyweb, this post is too short.

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http://www.reigndropsfall.net/2008/12/02/twitter-updates-for-2008-12-02/ asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb, Is there an iPhone app out there that will aggregate my Twitter, identi.ca, and Facebook accounts? # @TGMLeto: switch to ImON… I’ve got a 10 Mbit connection that acts like a 10 Mbit connection # @TGMLeto: http://imon.net # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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