Ponies and other requests

Posted on Thu 21 July 2011 in geek • Tagged with feedback, google, plus, social

So Google Plus is not even in beta, it's still a limited trail but they are soliciting feedback. Following on from Rich's suggestions here are some things I would like to see Google+ do.

  1. Allow nesting of Circles

Circles are great. They are a pretty intuitive way of arranging your …


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Plus One

Posted on Sun 17 July 2011 in geek • Tagged with facebook, google, privacy, social

Well I've been playing with Google+ for a week and a bit now so I thought I would add some punditry to the swirling ether of the 'net. For a product that hasn't even earned the famed Google Beta tag it's already been rolled out to around 10 million people …


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It's all about the package

Posted on Tue 14 June 2011 in geek • Tagged with deb, packages, rpm, sysadmin, tips

Apologies in advance for this tech heavy post. I was moved to write it as some friends are doing a crash course in learning Linux. Consider this remote teaching for those that are interested.

Back in the early history of computing software was often built in-situ. Generally programs were distributed …


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Uncaged Monkeys

Posted on Fri 13 May 2011 in geek • Tagged with review, science

I find it heartening that a thing like Uncaged Monkeys exists. While I doubt science based entertainment will ever reach the stadium busting state that stand-up comedy did a few years ago I hope the trend continues.

The format worked well and was a lively cross between lecture and stand-up …


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No news is some news

Posted on Tue 10 May 2011 in geek • Tagged with censorship, information theory

There is currently a lot of consternation around Twitter users attempting to circumnavigate the latest batch of so called super-injunctions. The approach being taken by twitter users seems to involve throwing up a number of informed guesses as to the subjects of these injunctions and seeing what gets taken down …


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