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_ Stylegala - Web Design Publication

Just found some great content there again, but where are the RSS feeds guys?

_ Google Press Center: Zeitgeist

It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our desires. Considering all that has occurred in 2005, we thought it would be interesting to study just a few of the significant events, and names that make this a memorable year. (We’ll leave it to the historians to determine which ones are lasting and which ephemeral.) We hope you enjoy this selective view of our collective year.

Makes for some pretty interesting reading… Notice how Wikipedia has grown steadily, whilst podcasting hasn’t yet reached it’s tipping point.

Hat tip: Damien

_ WordPress Development Blog › WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate

The next release of WordPress is drawing near. Please help us shake out any last remaining bugs by downloading and testing the 2.0 Release Candidate. If all goes well, the Release Candidate will become 2.0 final. We’re almost there. Download, test, and head over to the Beta Forum to let us know if the Release Candidate is ready for prime time.

Looking forward to it!

_ Away* » Blog Archive » Un Accomodated.

Thats the story. Why am telling this story, well, last night I was stranded in Rosebank. So I spent a night at the ‘Rosebank Hotel’, it cost me a 900 bucks 150 for the porn channel.

I feel dirty.

I’ve often had people ask me what it was like growing up in South Africa, and my response is normally “pretty much the same as you had, I imagine, give or take a few major things not part of my consciousness…”. Anyways, this post from Lebogang in Johannesburg had me laughing out loud, ‘cos it’s so true and so real, yet despite it all there is an honesty and a positive side which you just have to laugh at

Check out his photography too at Sinah…

south africa, townships, humour, photography

_ [this blog will be titled when inspiration strikes me]: The DOs and DON’Ts of Picking Up a Girl in the Computer Lab

It’s best to start out subliminally. Head to a music website and find a soothing, sexual track, something like Marvin Gaye, Norah Jones, or MC Hammer. Turn the volume down so low that she can barely hear it, just high enough that she’s hearing it loud and clear where it matters: in her loins. She won’t even know what she’s hearing, or where it’s coming from, but she’ll be strangely drawn to you and your lab computer, like a baby to an inviting teat.

ROTFL!
Blimey, this is great humour Go check it out…

Hat tip: Peter

_ Apple - Trailers - X-MEN 3 Announcement Teaser - Large

I’m a big fan of the X-Men… and from the teaser it looks like this installment of the franchise is going to be a good one.

_ How to Manage Geeks

A good deal of the credit for Novell’s turnaround must go to Schmidt, who excels at getting the best out of his geeks. He has used his tech savvy to bring focus to Novell’s product line and his geek-cred to reenergize a workforce of highly skilled but (until recently) deeply dispirited technologists. In general, Schmidt speaks of his geeks in complimentary terms, while acknowledging their vulnerabilities and shortcomings. “One of the main characteristics of geeks is that they are very truthful,” says Schmidt (who, in fact, uses the term “geek” only occassionally). “They are taught to think logically. If you ask engineers a precise question, they will give you a precisely truthful answer. That also tends to mean that they’ll only answer the question that you asked them. If you don’t ask them exactly the right question, sometimes they’ll evade you — not because they’re lying but because they’re being so scrupulously truthful.”

There’s a saying in Silicon Valley: “The geeks shall inherit the earth.”
Good article that talks about how to get the best out of your geeks. Recommended reading if you haven’t already…

_ Matthew J. Miller’s HOWTO: Dual Boot Linux and Windows on a Laptop

Dual Booting Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP on a Toshiba Laptop

My goal is to add Ubuntu Linux to the laptop which already has Windows XP installed. This HOWTO does not cover the case where Linux is installed first, then Windows is (re)installed (if anyone know of good HOWTOs for this scenario, let me know so that I can link them). I think, in general, installing Linux second is more useful.

The cool thing about installing Ubuntu is that it just works (isn’t there another OS like that?).

This HOWTO has some great tips and is well written, so check it out if you’re going to be installing Ubuntu on a WinXP machine.

dual boot, ubuntu, dual boot ubuntu tutorial

_ Mediawiki_1.4.pdf (application/pdf Object)
If you are thinking of setting up MediaWiki then this is a great place to start with some good tips!

Note, it’s a PDF file…

_ 24 ways

24 ways to impress your friends

If you’re a geek who likes code, this looks prety interesting…