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11Apr/080

Best GTD (Getting Things Done) applications

Lifehacker (one of my favorite sites EVER) have compiled a list of the five best GTD apps.

Check it out here.

PCWorld also has their top 9

10Apr/080

Are China feeling the heat?

China have changed the route of the flame carrier through San Francisco in attempt to bypass the demonstrators and protesters. What a cowardly act for the country that is now admitting that it is doing things wrong by acting so guilty.

San Francisco Olympic relay chaos

2Apr/080

Sydney Morning Herald – Makes the anti beijing campaigns seem wrong.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/beijing-bash-shame-game-tactics-target-olympics/2008/04/02/1206850964942.html

2Apr/080

Share the dream!

2Apr/080

Beijing 2008 Olympics Live Video Coverage

Fantastic Work. The world cant let these actions go unnoticed.

31Mar/081

Boycott Beijing

I think it is extraordinarily contradictive that a swimmer involved in a bar fight can have his right to swim at the games removed.... What the hell is going on? Tibetans are being murdered, en masse and China can still hold the olympic games, then one bloke gets in a bar fight and he is as good as restricted from going?!? I need a drink... This is pitifully stupid (and oh so backwards...).

I think everybody who feels this is unjust should boycott beijing. As much as I love the olympics, I wont be watching.

Tiananmen Square was not that long ago either, people.

19Mar/080

Linux Users forced to use Windows?

As an avid Linux user, using Windows can be a bit daunting and quite irritating. The most irritating part of Windows is the loss of the select-and-middle-click-paste functionality of X. Well, after a bit of searching and post reading (mainly on lifehacker) I found my Windows alternative. I love it to death!!

True X-Mouse

19Mar/080

Loghetti

Brian Jones has created an apache access log parser in Python which seems like a very handy tool.
Loghetti
OnLamp Blog post

19Mar/080

DROP TABLE(S) ??

For those of you that have ever tried to put up with a less-than-efficient operations department or are on a hosting plan with one database and only have drop permissions within that one database, then you'll know that dropping a few hundred tables from within the database is a bit of a time consuming and somewhat boring process. Well, why not create a drop query with a query?


SELECT CONCAT( 'DROP TABLE ', GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT(' ', TABLE_NAME)) , ';' ) AS statement FROM information_schema.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA LIKE '%databasename%';

That will return a big 'DROP TABLE' statement. It will probably need to be run several times as depending on how many tables you have, the query may cut off half way through a name as the GROUP_CONCAT max length by default is 1024 chars.

12Mar/080

The Chaser! Bloody Legends!

The team from ABC TV's "The Chaser" have had their hearing date set for July after the were caught breaching Sydney's multi-million dollar security charade during the stupidly absurd and locally restricting APEC summit last year. It was a bloody joke to hold the summit in Sydney (not even the countries capital) and the restrictions put in place for the residents of this city were astonishing. To see these blokes, dressed as Osama Bin Laden breach the security of a restricted area in a fake motorcade is just brilliant. I reckon most of Australia are behind these guys.

Bloody Ripper!