Archive for November, 2005
« Previous EntriesDomestic Airlines discrimante against Men
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005From the New Zealand Herald:
Auckland man Mark Worsley says an air steward approached him after take-off on the Christchurch to Auckland flight and told him to change seats with a women sitting two rows in front. The steward said it was the airline’s policy that only women were allowed to sit next to unaccompanied children.
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Firefox 1.5 released
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005Now that focus lays upon other things like podcasting, rss, blogs, web 2.0 applications, etc., we tend to forget most of these features/apps need a browser to be seen or used. So this reminder from Richard Mcmanus that there is still a browser war is timely.
This coincides with the release of Firefox 1.5 on [...]
Barenaked USB Drive
Monday, November 28th, 2005The Barenaked Ladies are releasing their next album via a reusable 128 MB USB flash drive.
Rather than distribute via CD, DVD or download, the Barenaked Ladies are making their newest selection of songs, videos and exclusive material available on a USB flash drive. Nettwerk Music Group is releasing Barenaked on a Stick [...]
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Monday, November 28th, 2005Good Technical books for free download, includes
* Linux
* Java
* Microsoft
* C and C++
* Perl/Python
* Science in general
* Networking
* Database
* [...]
WordPress 2.0 beta
Monday, November 28th, 2005We are still waiting for the release of Wordpress 1.6 as a hostable version (it is available at wordpress.com/) but I found this just now. Matt is releasing Wordpress 2.0 Beta 1.
You can also find the discussion on the WP support forums, but remember, this topic is not a support question.
NOTE: This is not a [...]
pricing and signals to consumers
Saturday, November 19th, 2005From Joel on Software:
What they really want is a system they can manipulate to send signals about what songs are worth, and thus what songs you should buy.
He’s talking about the real reason publishers want variable pricing, and distributors (like iTunes) don’t. We’ve been conditioned that cheap = nasty, expensive = premium. Distributors [...]
Rugby isn’t life and death, its more important than that
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005TFF reader Paul Whittaker was in Auckland last week to witness, while getting ready to fly home to Sydney, what he said was one of life’s great events. He was having a drink in one of the airport lounges when four older Kiwi farming types staggered in wearing All Blacks polo shirts. They had settled [...]
Microsoft memos
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005I’ve long been a big fan of Robert X. Cringely – the real one at http://www.pbs.org/cringely, not the legaly fictional one at infoworld.com (something to do with Cringeley’s contractual obligations…)
Anyway, Cringely analyzes those memos and concludes that not only were they leaked (it was a bit of a coincidence that the Wall Street [...]
Bruce Springsteen Podcast
Monday, November 14th, 2005Bruce Springsteen is offering a series of podcasts in connection with the 30th anniversary of the Born to Run album. Not sure if they’re available via the iTunes Music Store, but the link to subscribe via your usual RSS aggregator (or iTunes) is this one.
It’s got pretty high production values for a podcast, and [...]
Cut & Paste 4-digit Chmod Calculator
Friday, November 11th, 2005Cut & Paste 4-digit Chmod Calculator
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The SAP Developer’s Guide to PHP
Thursday, November 10th, 2005From the Author’s blog:
The SAP Developer’s Guide to PHP
Introduction to PHP
SAPRFC module in practice
Connections with PHP to the SAP system
Unique example application
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Democracy alive and well in Australia
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005via Tim Blair – This weeks Bulletin makes mention of a recent interview with John Howard:
A month ago, The Bulletin pointed out during a long interview with Prime Minister John Howard that he had copped strong criticism for proposing draconian anti-terrorist legislation.
Howard blinked and declared: “Not in the community, I haven’t.”
From commentators, then, The Bulletin [...]
