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Category Archives: Meta-Narrative
This Would Be Funny If It Wasn't All True
Possibly the best comic form summary of the CDO MBS scandal. (Sub-prime loans crisis.) http://www.suburbanhousehunters.com/about/mortgage-crisis/ Of note. SPV‘s is the general term for the more specific term of SIVs (Structured Investment Vehicles). Expect to hear more about these in the future. They don’t mention that … Continue reading →
Rationalising A Post Amazon/Google Home Library
I spent the last two weekends installing bookshelves so Sharyn and I just spent three hours going through books that have spent the last 6 years in boxes and in many cases have not been seen or used in 10 years. … Continue reading →
Sydney Phone Photo Blogging #3 – Everything
A random sampling from my phone over the last six months. Caution – Contains traces of roadkill. Shadow Bitumen Angel Old Poster The perfect product for when a sordid affair between a mechanic and journalist goes horribly wrong… Naked Car … Continue reading →
Grid Envy
I was in the middle of building something like this as a demo for my XML storage server, looks like several people beat me to it. Looks like they applied for a patent only to find that there is lots of … Continue reading →
Google "Trends"
I played a little while with Google Trends. Seems that “sex” is a popular search term, especially where its hard to get http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all Go figure.
Getting Some Joy From The Google Deskbar
I was about to give up on the email part of Google Deskbar, it was recording all the email I got – even the vast majority that ended up in my Spam folder. Had a poke around a few days … Continue reading →
And They Said I Was Crazy
Just listened to a podcast on IT Conversations where Werner Vogels discussed scaleable systems that are inspired by biological processes. What he described is exactly what I was working on in the networking protocols and “Entropy” VM in the MetaWrap project, … Continue reading →
New (Old) 21" Monitor And New Test Cases
I am now dual headed. We will see how it goes. I have the G4 and PC second display on the second monitor. The G4 stays up as long as I don’t move much. (Long Story) Testing all the basic … Continue reading →
New MetaWrap Project Website
Congratulations – Its a Bliki! http://www.metawrap.com/ Old version is still available at http://www.set-top.net I just installed MSN Messenger V7 – comes integrated with search and MSN spaces blogger. http://spaces.msn.com/members/miaowmiaowmiaow
Nanotech
Speaking of old bands – one of my old bad techno songs has been released on http://www.openpodcast.org as The Rhinoceros Song – OpenPodcast.org #759 aka “Mastitis” – people used to just call it “The Rhinoceros Song” so it just kind of … Continue reading →
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