At last some nice integration with Thunderbird and google calendar.

This tutorial “Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird.” makes it easy, and in early road testing seems to work very well - which is always nice.

Also featured on Life hacker

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As I caught up with some feed reading, a post by Stephen O’Grady was interesting for a number of reasons. The reason for this post though is to mention Woxy - as mentioned in Stephen’s post.

I looked it up - http://woxy.lala.com/ tuned in - and its great!

Cheers Stephen, always good to find new sources of music!

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With the wonderful Autumn we have been having so far, dishes like “Crêpes, autumn-style”, can only add to its wonderfulness (via delicious:days)!

Look at this… hmmm

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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.

Schrodinger’s LOLcat: Sciam Observations

Even Scientific American writers find interest in lolcats, love the way they put into Scientific context though

And as with any Scientific argument, a counter proposal is made: Enter loltapirs!

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Damian posted a link to a very funny graphic on the so called evils of Wifi the other day. When I saw the following post for an uber wardriver box linked to from the Make blog.

So based on that post, and the graphic of course, this has to be the greatest baby eater ever!

Baby eating aside, the slurp project looks really nice

A very good post (including link to video of show in question) on the Panorama episode this graphic was alludes to, can be found here Read the rest of this entry »

I use liferea as an rss feed reader - and until today, had not figured out how to add the rss feeds automatically to liferea.

It turns out to be rather simple, as liferea provides a DBUS interface script to add feeds automatically. From firefox, click on the RSS icon (orange icon) that appears in the address bar. A page will load with a yellow header from which you select a number of predefined applications (or webservices).

Select ‘Choose Application‘ from the ‘Subscribe to this feed’ drop down. In the file locater that appears, enter ‘/usr/bin/liferea-add-feed‘.

If you select the button that reads ‘Always use liferea-add-feed’ - anytime you click on the rss feed icon - that feed will automatically be added to liferea.

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the other day I was looking over the site - and spotted the following google adsense advertisement (see picture below)

interesting way of generating income - with a test page!

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Some of you may have noticed that I have often posted about posts from the ThreeHugger website. I find it fresh and interesting and fits with what I enjoy reading about it.

As the description of their site says:

TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Our goal is to make sustainability mainstream and to be the one-stop for the environment. If you want doom & gloom, this is not the place. We are looking for solutions, constructive developments and positive initiatives.

They also have a job with categories of jobs listed as green or not green, should you wish to guide your career in a greener line.

Its worth taking a look every so often, or subscribe to their feed.

in the past I found have articles from IBM Developer Works to be;

• to the point
• clear
• accessible
• informative

that is why I am looking forward to reading the following three articles

• Getting to know the Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 1: Create and edit Web resources with the Atom Publishing Protocol
• XML transformation with WebSphere Message Broker Version V6
• Discover the Ajax Toolkit Framework for Eclipse

makes for interesting reading.

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with the news the George W. Bush excercised his veto today, story here, this Stem-Cell Cheat Sheet, from wired, fills in the blanks and explains some of the terms used in this hot topic rather well.

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nicely done M

Life on a Screen : Introduction

this is a very experimental comic about 320*240 pixels living on a screen, YOUR screen! It will be updated on mondays, wednesdays and fridays. Don’t expect high quality drawings here (actually don’t expect drawings at all), but some strange thoughts about life, pixels and everything…

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this site is making me hungry! delicious:days

look at this,

the other recipes also look amazing, and the photography is truly astonishing.

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Got your own blog yet? If not you’d better hurry up if you don’t want to be beaten to it by a flock of pigeons.

New Scientist Technology - Pigeons to set up a smog blog

this article Ubuntu Blog � Goobuntu - Analysis of a hoax is interesting, and worth a read. in short … goobuntu is a no show.

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thanks goes to vish for pointing this out

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

you setup the server on the machine from which you want to use the keyboard and mouse, through a small configuration file where you specify the clients you want to connect to.

when you have done this, you just launch the client, no configuration file needed, pointing it to the server machine, and hey presto, one keyboard, one mouse, you have two or more machines under control from one keyboard and mouse!

very handy.

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darragh took a very nice shot recently,

christmas trees… on a beach

nice one Darragh

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this is interesting, the Ian Dempsey Breakfast show now has a podcast available. looks good.

it would be great if they also created podcasts for either the Tom Dunne, Pet Sounds show, or again even better for the Donal Dineen, Small Hours show. this last one at least now has playlists available

… arrived in the post today.

it was a bag, one of those coal bag types, although smaller, with a cable tie around the top, and a couple of tags attached with string. very strange I thought, this does not look like anything I ordered recently. curiosity eventually got the better of me, and the trusty leatherman came out, and yet again performed its duty.

Inside the bag, was a box, am amazon.com box… and it was the books I had ordered only a couple of weeks ago. I promptly put them at the top of the ‘to read’ pile.

it now stands as such (in a vaguely chronological fashion):

• How to Change the World : Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas By: David Bornstein (yes - eventually got around to order it )
• User Interface Design for Programmers By: Joel Spolsky
• Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age By: Paul Graham
• Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to By: Joel Spolsky
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should you have some nrg (Nero CD Image) files, that you want to burn under linux, using k3b for example, take a look at this, GREG’S PLACE v4 : Nrg2Iso.

nice little tool that converts your nrg files to iso’s, and quicly too!

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