Monthly Archives: October 2009

My first Google Wave Robot

So last night, powered by half a bottle of cheap plonk, I wrote and deployed my first Google Wave Robot. It’s not perfect yet, but it kinda works. All it … Continue reading

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Experience importing an existing Drupal site to Aegir

(Cross-posted from the Aegir group on Drupal.org. Aegir is a brilliant new framework for managing web sites built in Drupal – upgrading, migrating, enabling, disabling and so, SO much more.) … Continue reading

The Number One Hit for “Arsehole”

(Cross-posted from Tawtof) Ah Google. Any company that can have three copies of the Internet just kind of lying around is awesome to behold. And Google Image Search is a … Continue reading

Mah Finance Sector Is Too Big

[Note: Credit for these ideas must go to many people, particularly Joshua Zeidner and Matthew Slater, both of whom are working on mutual credit, LETS and other alternative currency systems. … Continue reading

A Gentle Reminder

As I’m gearing up for Laughmageddon, the climate change comedy event, my research continues to depress me. Sometimes rediscovering facts you already knew can hit you almost as hard as … Continue reading

I work in New Media

One of the funniest things I saw last festival was a song by The Bedroom Philosopher called “I work in New Media”. It completely deflated the hyped-up bubble of “new … Continue reading

The dark site of P2P

Found via ArsTechnica : Australia’s third-largest ISP finally found itself in court this week after film companies last year sued iiNet for not disconnecting Internet users on their say-so. The … Continue reading

Git in one minute

Based on notes from a recent BarCamp, here’s my one-minute introduction to Git, a distributed revision control system (a system for managing collaborative changes to files, usually used for software … Continue reading