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    • For These Three Men It Is A Serious Discussion December 1, 2009
      Shared by Douglas woah there. Submitted by: laurenpettigrew via Submission Page
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    • Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars December 1, 2009
      Shared by Jordan T-H this is one of the most brilliant ideas I've even borne witness to The Ecological and Economical Traffic Light Concept [relogik.com] by Damjan Stankovic is a Red Dot Design 2009 Award winner and consists of a simple yet, potentially highly practical visualization concept for everyday traffic lights that could reduce pollution and pr […]
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    • A Modest Proposal: "How to Fix Capitalism" November 22, 2009
      "How to Fix Capitalism" is an insanely ambitious post that ranges over, well, just about everything concerned with business and all it touches. The following proposals give some hint of its deep wisdom:# Abolish patents. They have not been proven to speed progress: the evidence seems to be to the contrary. They definitely increase costs, are an ine […]
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    • Radar Absorbing Turbines Prevent Aircraft Confusion November 27, 2009
      Shared by Douglas sweet. The U.S. Military has recently expressed concern about Maryland offshore wind projects because radar could identify spinning turbine blades as low-flying aircraft, potentially disrupting its training missions in the area.  Turns out the UK Military is blocking wind projects for similar reasons.  If only there were a cool, high-tech s […]
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    • Amazon Offers Three Free MP3s of Your Choosing [Dealhacker] November 27, 2009
      Shared by HeyGabe Nice! Amazon is running a brief promotion (ends November 30th) offering $3 worth of MP3s from Amazon MP3 for free. Just head to this page, follow the directions, and enjoy your free credit. Jason mentioned this in today's deals of the day, but we all know how important music can be to getting work done, so take advantage. [Amazon via U […]
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    • Get a 25-inch 1080p monitor for $149.99 shipped November 26, 2009
      Shared by Douglas hmm, this may be too good to pass up. Lowest...price...ever on a 25-incher. Amazingly, it's new, not refurbished, and you don't have to muck around with any rebates. It even has two HDMI inputs!
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    • Subscribed to tronath4n November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to tronath4n’s channel on YouTube.
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    • Subscribed to dcostalis November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to dcostalis’s channel on YouTube.
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    • Subscribed to geekazine November 25, 2009
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    • Subscribed to amrzeft November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to amrzeft’s channel on YouTube.
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    • Subscribed to abrahammw November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to abrahammw’s channel on YouTube.
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    • Subscribed to NeuseRiverNetworks November 25, 2009
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    • Subscribed to therealcaro November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to therealcaro’s channel on YouTube.
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    • Some Triangle Futures — maybe — just if November 24, 2009
      After taking a vacation from blogging for the first time in over five years, I have more than enough to be writing about, but I thought I’d start out by posting a reply I just sent to Rick Smith of Metro Magazine who was asking about the future of the Triangle for communications, infotech and biotech and anything else than comes to mind. My answers: There is […]
      Paul
    • Lifepress – an Open Source Multi-User Lifestreaming Platform Written in Django November 23, 2009
      I discovered a new open source Lifestreaming platform written in Django that comes to us from Krzysztof Klinikowski of Poland. He describes it as Lifestreaming Platform, multilanguage and multiuser. Written in Django, using modern technologies, microformats friendly. Clean and beautiful. Here is a screenshot of a user profile (click to visit) This is an alph […]
      Mark Krynsky
    • The Bizarre Cathedral - 60 November 24, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I really hate it when people take this attitude about things. Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral. read more
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    • The Really Traditional Socratic Method November 22, 2009
      You ask people hard questions. Then they kill you. Copyright © 2009 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint: )
      Eugene Volokh
    • Wind Power Could be Stored as Ice November 21, 2009
      A perfect way of storing electricity generated by wind turbines has been elusive so far.  Ideas like super-sized batteries, compressed air and hydroelectric storage have all been floated.  One company though thinks the answer could be as simple as making ice. Calmac has come up with a storage system called IceBank that uses the energy generated at off-peak n […]
      Megan Treacy
    • Polar Bear Robots Replace Dead Bears at St. Louis Zoo November 24, 2009
      Shared by Douglas um, how about just not having Polar Bears? thanks St. Louis. Officials at the St. Louis Zoo are preparing for their holiday Wild Lights exhibit by installing electronic polar bear proxies in place of the deceased polar bears who died in their captivity. The gesture is rife with social commentary, given the fact that polar bears have become […]
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    • DRM-free top-flight horror novels November 20, 2009
      Brett from small-press horror publisher Chizine sez, "ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words. You've seen us mentioned recently […]
      Cory Doctorow

Posts Tagged ‘drupal’

day of hard work, still much to do

Posted by douglasawh on November 15, 2008

1. fix wacom on Acer tablet.

2. read about hard drive encryption and enterprise TrueCrypt deployment

3. 54 tickets at work (nevermind the specifics – don’t forget that not everything comes in as a ticket)

4. Christmas shopping

5. email Google about working with OEM

6. 13 items in Google Reader (after some healthy “Mark all as read”)

7. set up MythTV system and figure out TV more generally (Slingbox?)

8. invite UW-MKE prof to OEM

9. write a blog post about my future (law school, PhD, etc?)

10. set up Drupal in IIS

11. set up next broken arm appointment

12. figure out when my new DJ shift at www.citywidelpfm.org starts.

13. Get stickers for car

14.Talk to parents about moving money

15. Clean spots on Fedora shirt

16. Email Max about event details

17. fingernails (which, I can’t really do with the broken arm)

18. send out e-mails to BarCamp, MadLUG and others about OEM

19. desktop monitor fix (now just compiz!)

20. send machines at work off to HP

21. check Micros servers for updates

22. MotionComputing Outlook issue

23. figure out best webcam for Linux

24. write post about broken arm since people keep asking

I got rid of some and added others but at the same total number I was yesterday.  Other than the Open Everything Madison meeting at 2pm in the Web608 IRC channel, there isn’t anything on the calendar for tomorrow and I should knock a few things off the to-do list.  Now, I think it’s time for bed.

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Google Reader…more to come later

Posted by douglasawh on October 25, 2008

I currently sit on 333 items to read in Google Reader.  Those of you that follow me on Twitter (douglasawh) know I’ve been struggling with how to not get overwhelmed in reading.  Specifically, I want to keep it below 1000 so that I can actually see how much I have to read.  Slashdot, in particular fills up the queue rather quickly.  Ok, so I just changed this (thinking while I write, which I often do).  Now I’ll just get the Linux articles on slashdot.  I do the same thing with Digg.  Now, the problem is, what about when there are interesting articles in other areas?  Well, I guess I’ll just have to trust FS Daily, the Open Solaris feed, Google at the top of Gmail and Twitter to keep me informed.  I think I’ll be ok.  The problem really is that I do Windows at work and I really am ready to be done with Windows.  I’m fighting what I want to learn for myself and what I feel I should be learning for work.  I’m certain that some learning is better than no learning though.

Ok, I was going to write about Drupal Camp Chicago and Open Everything Madison, but it’s time to bounce…

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