• Linux tip: Bash parameters and parameter expansions
  “Do you sometimes wonder how to use parameters with your scripts, and how to pass them to internal functions or other scripts?”… then this article is for you (and me…)
  (tags: ibm bash dev)

• GCALSYNC - synchronize your phone with Google Calendar
  Carry your Google Calendar in your pocket! GCalSync is an open source application that lets you do a two-way synchronization between Google Calendar and your phone’s built-in calendar. Download events to your phone, or add an event on your phone and uploa
  (tags: google gtd hacks)

• Search smarter with Apache Solr, Part 1: Essential features and the Solr schema
  (tags: ibm development howto)
• VMware Develops Virtualization Benchmarks
  VMware is leading the effort to offer a new benchmark that will measure how workloads perform in virtual environments. Together with Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, or SPEC, an industry body that development benchmarks, VMware will announce t
  (tags: vmware)

• Remote Sessions via XDMCP
  Cygwin/X can be used login to one or several remote sessions using XDMCP (X Display Manager Control Protocol).
  (tags: howto linux remote)

• Hello…It’s Your Plants Calling (TreeHugger)
  your plants will call you on the phone when they need to be watered, when they haven’t gotten enough, and to thank you when they’re no longer thirsty.
  (tags: green treehugger fun cool)
• Don’t Forget to Plant It! » Blog Archive » Desktop Backgrounds w/ Flickr
  “…using Flickr for my backgrounds was such a good idea (and a good excuse to play with ruby), that I thought I’d give it a shot.”
  (tags: flickr screensaver ubuntu)

• Linux.com :: Dzen: pop-up windows from the command-line
  general purpose messaging and notification program” written by Rob Manea. Basically, dzen provides an instant-on/instant-off pop-up terminal window, along with a multitude of options that allow you to run just about any command.
  (tags: ubuntu tutorial cool tools toread)
• Q&A: IBM Visionary Retires
  In Part I of a two-part interview, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM’s visionary leader behind many of the company’s moves into new technology and business areas, has retired to a part-time role with IBM and teaching.
  (tags: toread ibm)
• :::::___coin-operated.com___:::::
  Mr. T1″ is a bandwidth meter detector that runs as a standalone… The project constantly checks the current speed of the connected network and if it reaches that of a standard T1 line (1.5mbit/sec) or higher then a Mr.T sound sample is triggered in the
  (tags: fun dev linux tools)

• Authoring with the developerWorks Word and Writer templates
  A step-by-step guide for authors to create articles and tutorials for publication on developerWorks
  (tags: howto ibm)

• Notation Guide - Confluence
  Notation Guide for confiuence
  (tags: documentation confluence via:corriganjc)

• Flying Spaghetti Monster
  Once complete turn the handle on this cardboard curiosity and the Flying Spaghetti Monster waves his noodly appendages. Let the pasta power of the FSM help with your tricky decisions, turn the handle and ask yourself “What would Flying Spaghetti Monster D
  (tags: papercraft FSM)
• VIKTOR FRANKL INSTITUT . Audio/Video Recordings
  Viktor Frankl Archive: Audio and Video Tapes
  (tags: logotherapy frankl)
• Online Lectures
  Energy Futures Lab Special Lecture, 25 January 2006 nocera
  (tags: Science audio)
• Linux.com :: Detect insider threats with Linux auditing
  Organizations of all sizes need to mitigate the risk of insider threats. Misconduct by authorized users represents a grave threat to an organization.
  (tags: toread security linux)
• Linux.com :: Simple script restores your system settings after OS reinstall
  Looks rather useful “Restoring settings and downloaded applications after installing an operating system can take quite a bit of time, so I’ve come up with a shell script to make things a bit easier.”
  (tags: ubuntu linux)
• Google Earth Zooms In on Darfur Genocide
  The Crisis in Darfur project is a downloadable set of layers for Google Earth which combines high-resolution satellite images of Darfur with photographs and first-hand accounts of the genocide currently underway in the region. Users of Google’s 3-D world
  (tags: google web darfur Politics)
• Will Oracle Database 11g rope in customers? | InfoWorld | News | 2007-07-06 | By Eric Lai, Computerworld
  Will Oracle Database 11g rope in customers? It doesn’t get much hype, but infrastructure software is the fastest-growing software category, and with its new 11g offering, Oracle hopes to tap into that growth
  (tags: oracle)
• SOA bogged down by spend-happy worst practices
  “Prioritizing what services to build is more important than buying the machinery to build the services.”
  (tags: soa IT)
• Building an IT Service Catalog
  Implementing a service catalog saves time, garners users’ trust and bolsters your internal SLAs, writes ITSM Watch guest columnist Mike Drapeau of the Drapeau Group.
  (tags: itil tech)
• Performance tuning Subversion
  In this article, senior developer David Bell explains why Subversion’s performance suffers when handling binaries and suggests several ways to work around the problem.
  (tags: dev tech svn)

• S3switch - ThinkWiki
  S3switch is a utility to switch between various output devices and formats supported by the S3 Savage chipsets.
  (tags: linux s3)
• S3 Savage support on XFree86 4.x
  In the list of downloads below, you will find a utility called ’s3switch’ that will allow you to switch your display between the various output devices supported by the Savage (CRT, LCD, TV).
  (tags: graphics s3 linux laptop)
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 DIY office projects - Lifehacker
  Today’s top 10 looks at a few dead easy do-it-yourself office projects that reduce clutter and organize the cables, gadgets and office supplies in your workspace.
  (tags: gtd diy design)

Having just been re-acquainted with my tv tuner card (more details here later), I was able to quickly look up the program I was watching on the web. In short, I found William Crawleys blog, and this absolutely fantastic song from Sinead O’Connor.

The song was so powerful, and truly heartfelt (one of Sinead O’Connor’s impressive qualities), that to save time in finding the song, here it is, courtesy of youtube.

Full credit though goes to William Crawley though, for sharing that song.

• Taking the green way from Europe to Mongolia in a Citroën 2CV - AutoblogGreen
  Their chosen model is a 24 year old 2CV (with 602 cc and 29 HP) that they purchased on eBay for 473 GBP. Why is it green?
  (tags: green car rallye)
• The Mongol Rally 2007 :: Mongol Rally Welcome
  How can you sum up the Mongol Rally? How does the greatest adventure in the world sound? What about 10,000 miles, 7 mountain ranges, 3 deserts, bandits, roads ranging from bad to non-existent and all this in a car you swapped for a bag of crisps?
  (tags: fun car rallye race)

• Take off your suit pants and jacket — It’s Web 2.0 - Blogs - Code Monkey Business - Builder AU
  It’s time to take off that uncomfortable suit and put on those comfy jeans you left at home during the dot-com crash. And while you’re at it, grow that tidy corporate haircut out, let your facial hair run wild, and visit your local tattoo parlor so you ca
  (tags: culture web)

• Addictive Online Games at Holy Shmoly!
  These games should come with a health warning. Really. They should.
• An Inconvenient IT Truth
  Slide Show: Energy expenditure in the data center is growing, and companies need to take action.
  (tags: energy IT)