17:36: Mikal shared: An interesting read. Those who ship win.23:03: Mikal shared: Ice is a solid and therefore allowed is one of the most retarded things I have heard this year. Should we all just freeze our water bottles before

02:34: Mikal shared: Slightly racist, but still funny.Tags for this post: blather()

The effective TLD library is now being used for a couple of projects of mine, but I've had some troubles with it being almost unusable slow. I ended up waking up this morning with the revelation that the problem is

17:44: Mikal shared: Interesting article from Business Week. A recent study found that those laid off by Boeing were better off psychologically than those who remained with the company. This was mainly because of a combination of survivor guilt and

14:23: Mikal shared: Via Steve Walsh. This one looks useful.Tags for this post: blather()

I'm not sure where to start this story. I could tell you how I've been flying around the world on a business trip, or I could tell you what I think about Swiss Air business class. Instead I'm left thinking

ISBN: is the first book in the EE Doc Smith Lensman series, a series which sweeps from pre-modern Atlantis all the way well into the future. Its pretty old, so some of the science is dangerously dated, but that's not

14:26: Mikal shared: Horrible product name. Cool product. Free turn by turn GPS directions for Android.Tags for this post: blather()

I had a need recently for a library which would take a host name and return the domain-specific portion of the name, and the effective TLD being used. "Effective TLD" is a term coined by the Mozilla project for something

17:03: Mikal shared: A good commentary on the real time web.17:20: Mikal shared: Someone using MythNetTV comments that there is no documentation. I think he's looking for 17:34: Mikal shared: Oh the poor babies. When they're big kids are they

06:36: Mikal shared: I wonder who the tenant at 555 California is? Who wants to be guarded by badly trained thugs?Tags for this post: blather()

08:24: Mikal shared: I love this idea. I would totally pay $150 (about 10% of the cost of a SYD -> SFO return ticket) to have a bed like surface. Air NZ has been offering to guarantee an empty seat

09:27: Mikal shared: This is cool. I wonder if US cops could so something similar with tasers?Tags for this post: blather()

13:02: Mikal shared: An interesting note about what happens when the free content community clashes with traditional publishing.Tags for this post: blather()

ISBN: 0345339495Del Rey (1987), Mass Market Paperback, 208 pagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:0345339495');This book takes place over almost exactly the same period as Moreta. However, its not a rehash of those events, as it is written from a different person's perspective. There are enough

ISBN: 034529873XDel Rey (1984), Mass Market Paperback, 384 pagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:034529873X');Moreta is a book about a pandemic, and its hard to make those fun... If you've bothered to find out anything about the book in advance (or read the preceding Pern books,

01:24: Mikal shared: Well done to Jon and Hugh on finishing the book!Tags for this post: blather()

00:45: Mikal shared: Bottom biting bug! This is the song we played the most in Taiko at the arcade.00:48: Mikal shared: Oshiri Kajiri Mushi reminds me of Crazy Frog.05:10: Mikal shared: Heck, the whole technology is creepy.05:54: Mikal shared: You

ISBN: 0441783589Ace (1987), Edition: Reissue, Paperback, 272 pagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:0441783589');I saw the movie a few years ago, and so I read this book on a whim. Its very different to the movie. The book is interesting, although it does have a tendency

02:50: Mikal shared: These slides are interesting. I worked for a Microsoft ISV back in the day, and the would consistently pressure us to do things that clearly weren't in our best interests (and that they weren't doing to their