Sean’s Mental Walkabout

• Sprint posts loss as 1.1 million customers leave - MarketWatch
  Yeh, Sprint, you totally *don't* need something like Android to help with your numbers. Please get with the program and put out an Android phone. No matter how cool you think your touch screen phones are, without the Android application marketplace they are pretty much useless.
• xyzzy xyzzy… » a brief look at DotNetEngine vs XEngine
  It's really nice to see the stats work helping people figure out where some of our bottlenecks are. It isn't perfect, but it is definitely going in the right direction.
• Uber-Writer Bryan Fuller: If ABC Mows DAISIES, I’ll ‘Definitely’ Return To HEROES!! — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
  Sigh. Hopefully they at least get to make 13 episodes before it gets cancelled. Time to set up a betting pool on how many get aired.
• Republican pundit pushes Obama as open source | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News
  I had heard there was a Catherdral and Bazaar reference during the election, here is a bit more on it.
• Change.gov
  Here's to hoping we get the open government we were promissed during the election
• Wi-Fi Linux network bug found, fixed | Computerworld Blogs
  You'd think people would have figured out that strings need to be length checked by now.
• Republican National Committee Prepares for Computerized Voting Fraud Legal Battle
  Finally we seem to have both sides actually questioning black box voting. Hopefully this means we can get this fixed by 2012 to have something that's legitimately verifiable.

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• CodeProject: “C# Hooks For RRDtool”. Free source code and programming help
  This will be useful for some opensim monitoring bits using serverstats
• Do More With Less Cartoon | Savage Chickens - Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage
  I always hated the phrase "do more with less". While too much fat makes you complacient, too little makes you weak and unmotivated. People tend to forget the other side of balance on that equation.
• Roo Reynolds - Tardis
  one of the perqs of working at the BBC
• Transcript: Charles Barkley tells Brown ‘racism is a cancer’ - CNN.com
  Brown: So are you going to run for governor?

  Barkley: I plan on it in 2014.

  Brown: You are serious.

  Barkley: I am, I can't screw up Alabama.

  Brown: There is no place to go but up in your view?

  Barkley: We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.

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• VIDEO: Touchscreen fun on SNL. (Hulu = US only)
  The MSNBC folks have actually gotten nearly this bad playing around with their MS Surface computers
• Schneier on Security: Barack Obama Discusses Security Trade-Offs
  I like the schneier highlighted such a nuanced and balanced description of security tradeoffs made by one of our presidential candidates.

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• The Associated Press: Endorsements: Anchorage paper picks Obama
  I wonder if this means that Alaska is not longer part of "real america"
• Prototype - If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention? - NYTimes.com
• Slacker Astronomy
  A good blog, and a good podcast
• Great World Wide Star Count
  You should participate. It's an easy way to help figure out how much light polution is out there.
• Sean’s Blog » Blog Archive » Getting Suspend Working with nVidia in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
  Works on Intrepid with my home desktop. Finally, suspend working on this machine.

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• India to the Moon! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
  The space race just got more fun to watch with another world power (India) getting into the mix. Congrats to them on a successful launch.
• jwz - “There are many copies.”

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NBC Edits SNL Bailout Skit Following Legal Concerns Over “People Who Should Be Shot” Chyron
Interesting. This is one of the reasons you should be watching SNL live, because the archives have this editted out. Revisionist history wins the day.

Dynamic Periodic Table
Just because it’s awesome.

Dutchess Wine Trail - Discover the Premium Wineries of the Hudson Valley
Our local wine trail

Storm King Art Center
Giant Art on 1000 acres of beautiful land

Viscount Wines & Liquor
Wine tastings every saturday. It’s like an amusement park for adults.

Dutchess County Tourism
dutchess county tourism page

Stanford CS Ed Library
If you or a friend are trying to cut or re-cut your teeth on basic C stuff, I found this site years ago that’s actually quite good. Especially as they don’t seem to teach pointers in college any more.

Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool: Table of Contents
For whatever reason the GNU.org docs here suck, and this has always been my reference page for this.

Quick Reference Cards
A bunch of great quick reference cards for various technical tasks.

Advanced Search—The Tree Guide at Arborday.org
In case you are looking to plant a tree, and want to find the right one for your area

Giles Bowkett: Lightbulb Joke: Bad Ruby Programmers
If you follow things in the community, it’s pretty funny. It doesn’t change that I love ruby and ruby on rails, but it’s still funny.

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‘Orphan Works’ Copyright Law Dies Quiet Death | Threat Level from Wired.com
Sadly, the House isn’t going to look at this at all.

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And you should read it every day, as it’s been this awesome for weeks.

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The traditional workplace is broken - (37signals)
dead on

rc3.org — Why executive compensation should be on the table
“The bailout is corporate welfare. Welfare is supposed to be for people who have no other option. I don’t know whether limiting executive compensation is the right penalty for participating companies, but some penalties are essential or this is just a handout.”

Windows 7 to Dump E - Webmonkey
And now “un-bundling” is cool? Interesting.

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