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Tuesday Playlist for 2008.12.9

December 9th, 2008 · 8 Comments

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 […]

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Research assistance

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Day seven

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

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. […]

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SSH Tunneling between databases with MyS …

December 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Nerdery

December 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 […]

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Escaping the festive season

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Visual Controls for Spreadsheets

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Wii

December 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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I love Cape Town in the first week …

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Twitter Updates for 2008-12-02

December 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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