http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=7303871619
2008-07-07
Faces of Millions
"Faces of Millions is a project which aims to create a biggest yet photo mosaic, that will be about 30x30ft big (approx. 10x10m or 3 stories high). "
http://www.facesofmillions.com/
National Museum galleries reopen after revamp
"The Power of the Land, the Welsh landscape gallery, features artwork clustered into geographical Welsh regions, from a giant photograph on canvas, illustrating the industrial history of the South Wales Valleys to an oil painting of a Cardiff steelworks.
It also has several paintings by different artists of the same landscape or landmark. Charlotte Totsfield, who has been responsible for the Power of the Land gallery, said: “We’ve chosen to look at artists’ responses to the landscape in Wales."
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/07/10/national-museum-galleries-reopen-after-revamp-91466-21221527/
Asus Eee PC 901 Linux Edition
"Hot on the heels of Asus Eee PC 900 comes the 901, sporting not only a smart new design but also Intel's Atom processor. So is it the machine the 900 should have been?
No question: the answer's yes. With the 901, Asus has released a sub-notebook that isn't simply a version of the original Eee PC with a bigger screen, it's a major step forward that, at last, justifies the price differential. It also addresses its predecessor's key problems."
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/17/review_eee_pc_901/
also
http://blog.laptopmag.com/eee-pc-901-unboxing-shots-and-first-impressions
Top tips for testing critical systems
"IT professionals grumble at arduous inventories of test plans and scenarios, but the fact is that testing should be made a priority for critical systems.
So what can be done to make testing effective and thorough? Here are 11 points to stress for your test environments to prevent surprises and present credible test results."
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/tutorials/0,1000002006,39443798,00.htm
Phone box that's a home from home
"Like most of us, Cadwgan Edwards would find life tough without his phone. The difference is, however, that his is in a public call box outside his house."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7493506.stm
Sgwd Henrhyd (Henrhyd Waterfall)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgwd_Henrhyd (Wikipedia)
http://flickr.com/photos/khalding/sets/72157605994525408/ (photographs)
[http://tinyurl.com/62xtja]
A Sample Blogging Workflow
"Your company has decided to launch a blog, and you’re the lucky blogger. Maybe you’ve even asked for this pleasure, suggested it to the boss yourself. Only now, you have to deliver, and you have to stay consistent. It’s not always easy to keep up a steady blogging pace, and there are days when you might run into a roadblock or two that might keep you from delivering on your schedule. Here are some ideas on how to build and maintain a steady blogging rhythm, be it for your personal blog or your business blog. We’ll cover goals, tasks, tools, and some bonus secrets."
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/a-sample-blogging-workflow/
How to Find Motivation for the Things You Hate Doing
"Make it an Art ... See your boring activity as a previously unrecognized art form you can master. When you give an activity more depth, the interest level goes way up. More importantly, it becomes easier to focus on the task completely, making it easy to swallow."
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-find-motivation-for-the-things-you-hate-doing/
Database Performance: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later
"Many database performance decisions come down to "pay me now or pay me later." Some decisions will produce faster inserts and updates at the cost of slower and more complex reads, while other decisions will slow down inserts and updates but provide faster and easier reads. "
http://database-programmer.blogspot.com/2008/07/database-performance-pay-me-now-or-pay.html
http://database-programmer.blogspot.com/2008/07/database-performance-pay-me-now-or-pay.html
Essential Life Lesson #1: Over is Right, Under is Wrong
"Toilet paper has a natural curve, a way of being that lends itself to certain orientations on the toilet paper spool.* If handled with skill and knowledge, it can provide an abundance of both sanitation and comfort, quilted together in each square of pillowy ply. If handled with clumsy ignorance, or worse, carelessness, it will beset the user with pain, filth, and frustration. Don’t let it end this way, with you curled on the tile floor of the stall, weeping in frustration, covered in wasted papier de toilette. To convince you, we’ve created some diagrams, harnessing the power of SCIENCE, to demonstrate the natural benefits of the over hanging method. "
http://currentconfig.com/archives/000083.html
King of the Road
"What’s up with groups that argue for less government but see publicly built highways as an expression of the free market?"
http://www.governing.com/articles/0804trans.htm
I find it exceedingly strange that a group of conservative and libertarian-oriented think tanks — groups that argue for less government — have embraced highways and roads as a solution to traffic congestion and a general boon to living. In the same breath, they usually attack mass-transit spending, particularly on trains. They seem to see a highway as an expression of the free market and of American individualism, and a rail line as an example of government meddling and creeping socialism."
http://www.governing.com/articles/0804trans.htm
I find it exceedingly strange that a group of conservative and libertarian-oriented think tanks — groups that argue for less government — have embraced highways and roads as a solution to traffic congestion and a general boon to living. In the same breath, they usually attack mass-transit spending, particularly on trains. They seem to see a highway as an expression of the free market and of American individualism, and a rail line as an example of government meddling and creeping socialism."
Stephen Hawking's explosive new theory
"In this theory, the early universe can be described by a mathematical object called a wave function and, in a similar way to the light particle, the team proposed two years ago that this means that there was no unique origin to the cosmos: instead the wave function of the universe embraced a multitude of means to develop. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/06/26/scihawking126.xml
Network Naming Schemes
"A good naming theme is scalable, unique, and easy to remember. The purpose of these naming schemes is to name network computers, but it can also be used to name projects, variables, streets, pets, kids, or any other project where unique names and rememberable names are required. "
http://namingschemes.com/Main_Page
http://namingschemes.com/Main_Page
Cinema Redux
"This explores the idea of distilling a whole film down to one single image. Using eight of my favourite films from eight of my most admired directors including Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola and John Boorman, each film is processed through a Java program written with the processing environment. This small piece of software samples a movie every second and generates an 8 x 6 pixel image of the frame at that moment in time. It does this for the entire film, with each row representing one minute of film time."
http://www.brendandawes.com/sketches/redux/
Chess boxers slug it out
"A Russian man has been crowned world champion in the novelty sport of chess boxing, a game that requires equal skill at moving pawns and throwing punches."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23979955-23109,00.html
Wuala - your free online hard-disk
"Instead of centralized servers, Wuala uses the idle resources (storage and bandwidth) of computers of its users who can opt to trade their local storage for online storage. Note that not everybody has to offer local storage and in fact, not everyone can. Local storage is only useful to the system if the computer is online more than 17% of the time on average (about 4 hours a day). Only when you meet this requirement, you are allowed to trade your local storage for more online storage. But even if you do not contribute, we give you 1 GB of free online storage which is already enough for most purposes."http://wua.la/en/home.html
Nirvanix - The Premier Cloud Storage Platform Optimized for Large Files
"The Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network contains truly innovative technology that is designed to address the most critical storage challenges facing modern businesses. With nodes spread across the globe, the SDN can intelligently store and deliver content to ensure the best end-user experience, and with policy-based replication, Nirvanix users are not vulnerable to a single point of failure. From the web 2.0 start-up to the Enterprise Corporation, the Nirvanix platform can offer a reliable, cost-effective solution that fits a business' unique requirements."http://www.nirvanix.com/
Online Information Storage: Completing the Web as Platform
"Of course, the premise of all this is that more and more of our information will continue to flow online along with the software that we use. Our personal data, work documents, images, audio, video, and everything else is more useful to us and others if we move it online, making it accessible anywhere, taking advantage of professional data center backup, and getting off of the hard drive upgrade treadmill. Particularly as our personal archives of digital content become large and highly valuable as we aggregate them over the years, they become irreplaceable assets that require better care than we might be able to give them without professional help."http://web2.wsj2.com/online_information_storage_completing_the_web_as_platform.htm
Coed Hills Rural Artspace
"Coed Hills Visitor Centre is situated in the picturesque Vale of Glamorgan, just 8 miles west of Cardiff. In an area packed with ancient history and breathtaking beaches, the farm is a family day out that could change the way you view the world."
http://www.coedhills.co.uk/
http://flickr.com/photos/khalding/sets/72157606017211819/
iLocker
" iLocker allows you to create a locker containing whatever text you want. The text you enter is encrypted using your password and a highly secure encryption method. "
https://www.ilocker.org/home/
example
http://www.ilocker.org/3641
(the password is password)
"Jungle Disk makes it easy to store files securely online"http://www.jungledisk.com/howitworks.shtml
Dock Your Old Drives with the Hard Drive USB Dock
"Dock any internal SATA hard drive in this USB dock to turn any internal drive into an external drive on-the-quick. If you've got a few old hard drives hanging around that you'd like to put to good use but they aren't really worth installing in your computer's innards and you don't feel like taking the time to convert that old drive into an external hard drive, this simple dock, which appears to have taken swappable inspiration from your SNES, seems like a brilliant idea. "http://lifehacker.com/361427/dock-your-old-drives-with-the-hard-drive-usb-dock
Windows Sysinternals
"The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications."http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx
"This is a file share allowing access to all Sysinternals utilities. We have developed this to test an alternate distribution mechanism for our utilities.
This will allow you to run these tools from any computer connected to the Internet without having to navigate to a webpage, download and extract the zip file.
If you are unfamiliar with Microsoft Windows Sysinternals, it is highly recommended that you visit the website at http://technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals before using these tools.
If you have any questions or comments on this file share, please email syssite@microsoft.com
Regards,
The Microsoft Windows Sysinternals Team"
http://live.sysinternals.com/
Wizmo - Windows Gizmo
"Wizmo is an extremely useful "Windows Gizmo" I created when I could not find anything else on the Net to do similar jobs.Wizmo is a multi-purpose, miscellaneous Windows function, "catch all" with a growing list of uncommon but useful features and capabilities."
http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm
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