Links June 2011Links June 2011
TED has published a list of resources for suicide prevention and to help survivors and their families [1]. Psychology Today has an interesting article by Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D about[...]
Pool PartiesPool Parties
Periodically Free Software people from other countries visit Melbourne on business trips. Usually when someone is sent any distance on a business trip (IE to Australia from anywhere other than[...]
Parsing Daemontools/Multilog dates in Shell ScriptParsing Daemontools/Multilog dates in Shell Script
I run some servers that use the DJB Daemontools to manage their daemons [1]. This is something I would have changed years ago if given a chance because DJB software[...]
Evil PsychologistsEvil Psychologists
Last year the Psychologist and Baptist minister George Rekers who is famous for anti-homosexuality pseudo-science was discovered to be hiring gay escorts from Rentboy.com. Lots of LULZ there. But the[...]
Rallying for a Carbon Tax 5th JuneRallying for a Carbon Tax 5th June
It’s not that common to have a rally in favor of creating a new tax, but today I attended the Melbourne rally in favor of a “carbon tax” [1], it[...]
Leaving ThreeLeaving Three
In February I started the process of moving my phone and my wife’s phone to Virgin from Three [1]. The reason is that Three didn’t offer any good phones on[...]
Ziggy’s Lecture about Nuclear PowerZiggy’s Lecture about Nuclear Power
The Event I just attended a lecture by Dr Ziggy Switkowski (see the above picture) on the topic of nuclear power, for a long time Ziggy has been the most[...]
Links May 2011Links May 2011
John W. Dean wrote in insightful series of three articles for Findlaw about Authoritarian Conservatives [1]. In summary there are Authoritarian Followers who follow their leader blindly and Authoritarian Leaders[...]
Are Assholes Essential to a Free Software Project?Are Assholes Essential to a Free Software Project?
What do Assholes do? Rusty just wrote a post titled “If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot” [1] about some of the anti-social tendencies demonstrated[...]
Book Company BankruptcyBook Company Bankruptcy
In February Borders went bankrupt [1], since then they have been in the slow process of closing down. Now Borders is trying to clear the last of their stock and[...]