colin charles collection: Archive

Snow Patrol – You're All I Have

Mar 1st

Malaysian Prime Minister gets feedback via...

Mar 1st

YouTube uploading lacks a progress bar. How ghetto is that? Google, you can surely do better

Mar 1st

Watch

Giuseppe feeds a kangaroo

Mar 1st

Watch

Around Universal Studios, band playing

Mar 1st

Watch

Live band at Universal Studios

Mar 1st

Not Spam

Mar 1st

Why you need the Adsense Competitive Ad...

Mar 1st

trying Plaxo (to respond to the “be my contact on plaxo” inbox spam). it supports...

Mar 1st

Watch

Jazz band in Universal Studios

Mar 1st

wow, cpu temperatures are between 68-70C when laptop is placed on a surface that isn’t a...

Mar 1st

Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet

Mar 1st

Best Places to Meet a Guy - Apple Store - Gym...

Mar 1st

The Best Advice I Ever Got: Kris...

Mar 1st

Scaling to multiple databases with Rails

Mar 1st

Scaling Audiogalaxy to 80 million daily page...

Mar 1st

Design details of Audiogalaxy.com’s high...

Mar 1st

Project Zero - WebHome - Project Zero

Mar 1st

Students turn to sex work to help pay for...

Mar 1st

home, early even. maybe i’m over this drinking/clubbing/etc. fad, for real? had pizza though....

Mar 1st

Women who are salsa dancers make use of their pelvis more and are better in bed? So says this singer...

Feb 29th

How Hard Could It Be?: Lessons I Learned in...

Feb 29th

Is Sun Microsystems going to compete with...

Feb 29th

Updated: Playing with ZFS, USB memory disks...

Feb 29th

Watching people attempt to salsa. They’re killing the salsa club ;) Wish there was better...

Feb 29th

At mckillops. Door bitch knew about ‘malaysian’ malays, indians and chinese. Wow, our...

Feb 29th

Sipping my apple martini at manchuria, and a certain teresa asks if i’m gay. Ouch. Time to...

Feb 29th

Overheard between 3 ladies: ‘one of our regulars is this big biker guy, you just got...

Feb 29th

Seems to be a trend with guys carrying the small Country Road duffel bag, like a handbag. Are these...

Feb 29th

linkedin now supporting a “status” (i.e. “what are you working on?”). how...

Feb 29th

FriendFeed is Mugshot, with community

Feb 29th

ooh, viddler is cool. you can jump to parts of videos! this is so much nicer than youtube

Feb 29th

Tried FriendFeed. Wrote long post about it: http://tinyurl.com/3cgqnn

Feb 29th

Hoobastank – The Reason

Feb 29th

Sun Microsystems, Inc. Online Store: Sun...

Feb 29th

A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing | MySQL...

Feb 29th

OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas: How...

Feb 29th

Been There... Done That... Here’s How - New...

Feb 29th

Tony Wright dot com » Half-assed Startup -...

Feb 29th

Why Did I Change My Mind? | AlwaysOn

Feb 29th

PlexNex: MIGRATION: OpenDocument is in My...

Feb 29th

Bob Sutor: Open Blog | Migrating to ODF

Feb 29th

Creating an Archive Index « WordPress Codex

Feb 29th

Either CPL or HP, suck…

Feb 29th

the kids downstairs, are having a beer party. and making noise. how do i sleep?

Feb 29th

Sun Presentation Minimizer | OpenOffice.org...

Feb 29th

Documentation/How Tos/Regular Expressions in...

Feb 29th

Documentation/How Tos/Regular Expressions in...

Feb 29th

LanguageTool | OpenOffice.org repository for...

Feb 29th

So you want to start a successful open-source...

Feb 29th

“a database with sex attachments. lets all patch porn-get”

Feb 28th

i called racq by accident. instant answer. racv? on hold for 5+ minutes already

Feb 28th

i just wrote the liferea author. thanking him. have you thanked a free software developer, recently?

Feb 28th

Minimalist Meals: Fantastic Food in Ten...

Feb 28th

seriously, wtf. my car insurance has gone up 21% just because my insured postal code has changed....

Feb 28th

ok, off to post office, then late lunch/tea

Feb 28th

still contemplating a late lunch. fridays…beer o’clock even

Feb 28th

Scrambled Tofu :: theppk.com Vegan Recipe...

Feb 28th

i have a hp laserjet 3052 in my possession now. finally, a printer that works, networked even

Feb 28th

xsane seems to understand scanning multipage projects! and a nice PDF comes out.

Feb 28th

thinking i next, need to be buying a shredder

Feb 28th

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” -Betty...

Feb 28th

Yahoo! Launches World's Largest Hadoop...

Feb 27th

Ubuntu picks KVM over Xen for virtualization...

Feb 27th

How do you check the speed of your Ethernet...

Feb 27th

i can has the runs. something to do with the lamb souvlaki i had a little while ago. grr

Feb 27th

i have new neighbours. apparently, they see it fit to move in, now (its a little over midnight)

Feb 27th

wow, i transferred 1GB of data yesterday. that cannot be good for my monthly, 12gb quota

Feb 27th

YouTube - Mahathir Mengaku Anwar Ibrahim...

Feb 27th

Activation and Developer Keys - OLPC

Feb 27th

JODConverter | Art of Solving

Feb 27th

linkedin.com has had a redesign. it looks, well, different

Feb 27th

U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday

Feb 27th

XML.com: Moving to OpenOffice: Batch...

Feb 27th

Convert OpenXML (.docx, etc.) in Linux using...

Feb 27th

OpenOffice.org Ninja: Batch command line file...

Feb 27th

how ghetto. netbeans ide 6 places an icon on the desktop.

Feb 27th

Radiohead – Faust Arp

Feb 27th

deluge of documents causing my printer to now malfunction. grr.

Feb 27th

installing unrar. didn’t have a need for it since i reinstalled my box in november 2007? syncs...

Feb 27th

blinds closed. sun glaring is so not fun

Feb 27th

thanks @stewartsmith and @skinnylatte. now to visit a store tomorrow. bah

Feb 27th

anyone know a good, cheap, networked laser printer i can buy? sub-AUD$500 can be considered...

Feb 27th

Radiohead – Reckoner

Feb 27th

James Governor’s Monkchips » Strong Leaders,...

Feb 27th

feeling the limitation of my 512kbps downstream link now. 512/128 just isn’t enough. time to...

Feb 27th

darn, why do most delivery services only start at 5.30pm? don’t they know people get hungry...

Feb 27th

Mandy Moore – Candy

Feb 27th

WordPress Experiments

Feb 27th

Mandy Moore – 04 - One Sided Love

Feb 27th

FreeBSD major version upgrades

Feb 27th

Coding Horror: Douchebaggery

Feb 27th

looks like i’m politically aligning myself. i just donated to a DAP candidate. hope it helps...

Feb 27th

When OpenDNS is unreachable

Feb 26th

have put in request for a new laptop. will my request be granted, that is the question

Feb 26th

DocsProject/Publican - Fedora Project Wiki

Feb 26th

Some thoughts and transcripts from the Alan...

Feb 26th

lawyers, are intentionally verbose, and prefer non-parsable english, just so you can hire one of...

Feb 26th

mind tricks to tune

Feb 26th

pidgin just crashed out? i doubt i shut it off

Feb 26th

Avril Lavigne – Mobile

Feb 26th

Registered to be a postal voter…

Feb 26th

my wardrobe, is broken. too heavy? grr

Feb 26th

seems, fedora decided i needed to be all hung up. can’t wait for kernel to write me BSODs in...

Feb 26th

sitting at home, on couch. lots of email.

Feb 26th

Airport security fellow recognised the mozilla firefox logo on my tshirt. We managed to quickly...

Feb 25th

absentee postal vote registration in melbourne tomorrow. i must make it. and erm, vote (flying to...

Feb 25th

Absentee (postal) vote registration in...

Feb 25th

Ah, the wonders of Singapore, and their new terminal 3. Long walks

Feb 25th

Checked in. Bag is 28kg. Ick. Got thru fine. Klia, mcdonalds beckons, as usual. Few hr layover in...

Feb 25th

maybank2u tells me that i may be experiencing difficulties connecting to the site. i think its they...

Feb 25th

shower time? its almost airport time. boy do i dislike packing

Feb 25th

dinner coming. last night here. mmrm

Feb 24th

Doing the usual bookshop browse. Amazing to see my dad’s book on the shelf. Its expensive!

Feb 24th

Being out has given me something valuable. The ability to watch, analyse, and profile people more...

Feb 24th

Damn lot of mat rempits hanging around at dataran merdeka… At rum jungle now apparently

Feb 23rd

listened to tell laura on the radio, was feeling a little teary on the drive back then. wonder why?

Feb 23rd

So, is TGIF halal? I doubt it. Food cooked with liquor, liquor served, etc. Then why is it so...

Feb 23rd

Khairy refers to himself as a “budak nakal” (naughty boy). i wonder if he’ll be...

Feb 23rd

The 46-Year-Old, First-Time Smoker - Esquire

Feb 22nd

A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and...

Feb 22nd

When Should You Keep Your Ideas to Yourself?...

Feb 22nd

Time to rewrite DBMS, says Ingres founder |...

Feb 22nd

caught up on House. this time, with the laptop tethered to the nice, huge, LCD tv. oh how will i...

Feb 22nd

water service has been disrupted. how annoying. traffic lights nearby been out for days....

Feb 22nd

Online videos, to a VCD, via Linux

Feb 22nd

feeling lazy. sleep last night was especially good. all the outings, have made me become, really...

Feb 22nd

all the tv series i tend to follow started again a couple of weeks back. no writers strike? grr

Feb 21st

/me waits to go out now.. gonna be late to cheras, definitely

Feb 21st

Something about drinks tonight… Cheras? Dunno. Happy birthday Jonathan

Feb 20th

Should i now try an ubuntu environment on the eee? Seeing that eeedora shat itself? Hmm

Feb 20th

Great. Kernel update, remove old kernel, and eee-setup stops working. No wifi, uvcvideo, etc....

Feb 20th

i can has haircut. its been, about four months? maybe five…

Feb 20th

best way to spend your vacation? write up a lot of old, unfinished blog posts.

Feb 20th

haha. i can get yum to dump core (or was this rpm? investigate later) with 512mb ram and a large...

Feb 20th

Software Freedom Day 2007, Beijing Report

Feb 20th

David Rusenko - Press for Startups: 10 tips

Feb 20th

working exclusively on the eee pc today. getting annoyed that i have to use mobile google reader....

Feb 20th

Alanis Morissette – Still (from the "Dogma"...

Feb 20th

wondering if 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 breaks suspend/resume on my laptop

Feb 20th

enjoying my vacation, reading rss feeds. clearly i should’ve planned to go somewhere

Feb 20th

i can has SIA flight. i am now, rather happy not to fly MAS…

Feb 20th

Heavy. Lets hope it all tastes good

Feb 20th

trying out EPEL now. this is a worthwhile project to follow

Feb 20th

darn, installing bittorrent in RHEL5 seems “hard”. like, wtf is the package.

Feb 20th

trying out deluge. silly website, doesn’t mention fedora. good thing its a yum install away

Feb 20th

…in case folk are wondering… “case of 12yo” ? case of 12 year old...

Feb 20th

Blink-182 – First Date

Feb 20th

What does a case of 12yo feel like? About to find out ;)

Feb 20th

its weird, but it does seem like a lot of good RH folk well, have left RH in recent times

Feb 19th

not friday yet, but i’m headed to TGIF for some margaritas and dinner ;)

Feb 19th

Comedy Court - Watch Videos

Feb 19th

spending time tightening production machines

Feb 19th

Love a lunch where varieties of fish differ, it becomes hard to choose :)

Feb 19th

Fsckin malay twits. Spoiling our fun with the japanese… Where’s JAISs number when i need...

Feb 19th

Just registered for the MySQL Conference &...

Feb 18th

phew! talk complete.

Feb 18th

writing talk for giving to apiit students later

Feb 18th

damn benefits document is not showing me the love

Feb 18th

KeepVid: Download videos from Google,...

Feb 18th

LDAP vs. DBMS (or migrating to fedora...

Feb 18th

I have nspluginwrapper. Why won’t Google Gears work on my x86_64 Firefox 2 running on Fedora...

Feb 18th

Six Principles for Making New Things

Feb 18th

Polymorph: Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto

Feb 18th

Red Hat Magazine | Fedora + Eee PC = Eeedora

Feb 18th

SIPphone & Gizmo Support Center: What is...

Feb 18th

Polymorph: Planning my SCALE 6x Attendance

Feb 18th

Polymorph: 20000 km, $7000, 7 days and 4 tons...

Feb 18th

Tech.view | Technology in 2008 |...

Feb 18th

An introduction to ANTLR (sparse notes)

Feb 18th

ps auxw -> what i do standard in linux. i’m remembering solaris differences now…

Feb 18th

dinner, was especially good. crabs, oh how i love thee.

Feb 17th

OpenOffice.org on OLPC

Feb 17th

EeeDora Project

Feb 17th

eeedora - Google Code

Feb 17th

FOSSology

Feb 17th

7 Food Hacks to Stay Alert Without Caffeine |...

Feb 17th

Sniff browser history for improved user...

Feb 17th

ZSFA -- Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31)

Feb 17th

STSC CrossTalk - Computer Science Education:...

Feb 17th

Get the Preview! at OpenSolaris.org

Feb 17th

ongoing · Message From the Web

Feb 17th

dinner beckons. talk for tomorrow nowhere near ready. security? databases? securing the stack?

Feb 17th

maven hackers get USD$12,800 - 24,000 / month consulting for 12-18 months? crap, life must be great...

Feb 17th

clearing my tabs, reading rails is a ghetto finally. amazing, fractured...

Feb 17th

working all day with a few hours of sleep last night, is horrendous. beer in cheras till morning :)...

Feb 17th

Sitting with @ditesh, @aizatto, and wen lin at some place in bangsar, having drinks. Sunday, bloody...

Feb 16th

Computerworld - Oxer on hardware hacking and...

Feb 16th

Caught Execution of Justice. I now know the history of Moscone, and more about San Francisco (the...

Feb 15th

dinner at peel rd. this should be “fun” (i.e. getting there in rush hour, when i’m...

Feb 14th

Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? |...

Feb 14th

HINDRAF are smart. giving away roses to Badawi, after Valentines Day. Scraps, are all he’s...

Feb 14th

Out for a late lunch, sitting next to 3 malay girls that are mute. Functioning perfectly in this...

Feb 14th

Ever wondered why Twitter caps messages at 140 characters rather than 160 characters (standard sms...

Feb 14th

10000+ tables in one MySQL database - Ask...

Feb 14th

Avril Lavigne – Who Knows

Feb 14th

expenses approved by all required parties. lets hope its not another 10 more days till “bonus...

Feb 14th

The Facebook Blog | Facebook: Keeping Up

Feb 14th

The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook...

Feb 14th

MySQL Miniconf videos, from linux.conf.au...

Feb 14th

fire crackers going off. noisy as

Feb 14th

Hypertable is out. « Kevin Burton’s NEW...

Feb 13th

foss.in, day 2: A day of Sun

Feb 13th

FT.com / Wealth / James Altucher - College a...

Feb 13th

Social Graph API - Google Code

Feb 13th

To Our Customers - Zimbra - Forums

Feb 13th

Life, recently

Feb 13th

MySQL, meets Sun

Feb 13th

organising, the presentation repository. boy, did i use to give a lot of talks, it would seem

Feb 13th

Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape (ft. Akon)

Feb 13th

my urgent fedex package? a book, “journey of a hope merchant”, sent by my wonderful...

Feb 13th

Gwen Stefani – Rich Girl (feat. Eve)

Feb 13th

Gwen Stefani – Cool

Feb 13th

Has Red Hat forgotten about Mugshot? The download page has F7 rpms, and the current version listed...

Feb 13th

Wonder if Badawi, is subtly hinting a May 13 1969 again? http://tinyurl.com/2kvlop

Feb 13th

Gwen Stefani – Bubble Pop Electric (feat....

Feb 13th

Is porn illegal in Australia, now? Ample Club X’s tell me otherwise.http://tinyurl.com/2phmdc

Feb 13th

You know how people get paper cuts? I just got a money cut. Bloody note, scraped my finger. At...

Feb 12th

Heading to myoss meetup. Hop on lrt, move to one station and get asked to get off train! Wait…...

Feb 12th

mtocker: Pros and Cons of InnoDB's file per...

Feb 12th

MySQL vs PostgreSQL - WikiVS

Feb 12th

routing issue? no bugs database, no shell access, no irc, no sending email, no repository access....

Feb 12th

Its nice to see that Badawi, dissolved Parliament today, after saying it won’t be dissolved...

Feb 12th

Everyone’s downloading OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2. I’m wondering if thats something...

Feb 12th

done! all expense reports, done! well, i’ll wade through the mobile phone records tomorrow....

Feb 12th

shower? feels like its time to veg out in front of the telly

Feb 12th

Watch

A walk in Universal Studios, Florida

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Giuseppe’s Day in Melbourne

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Giuseppe’s Day in Melbourne

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Giuseppe’s Day in Melbourne

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Giuseppe’s Day in Melbourne

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Giuseppe’s Day in Melbourne

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Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl

Feb 11th

Gwen Stefani – Serious

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Gwen Stefani – Long Way to Go (feat. André...

Feb 11th

Giuseppe’s Day in Melbourne

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Giuseppe’s Day in Melbourne

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SuperCook - The Intelligent Recipe Search...

Feb 11th

lua-users wiki: Home Page

Feb 11th

The Immutable Laws of Web Design and...

Feb 11th

1 whole day spent on admin tasks… i’m onto scanning, which is the last of this crap

Feb 11th

Using Winblows software to give me scanned multiple-page PDFs. how do I do this with the gimp?

Feb 11th

chinese dinner time. shops are open! soon tong, here i come

Feb 11th

wow. expenses in parts of 2007 alone, make up what i earn in a month! next time, i better get these...

Feb 11th

if i were in europe/germany, i’d be at a meeting now… and at fosdem next week. grr

Feb 11th

Gwen Stefani – Early Winter

Feb 11th

Fergie – Mary Jane Shoes

Feb 11th

time to get intimate with a spreadsheet now…

Feb 11th

to the club for lunch. expense reports nearly 70% complete, for stage 1 at least

Feb 11th

still clipping receipts, to paper. this isn’t going to be as hard as firing up the spreadsheet...

Feb 11th

today looks like complete expense reports day. only goal for the day.

Feb 11th

Get this. The putting in money queue works a charm, the taking out money queue is slow as. Evil...

Feb 10th

Sick of malaysian travel agents. Apparently, flying by MAS again. Sigh. If only there were magic...

Feb 10th

i, quaid » Counting words in Emacs

Feb 10th

the djgpp author works at red hat on gcc. nice… seeing that djgpp was my first C compiler back...

Feb 10th

Gambling at Gen’s has ended… Rum jungle w/jon. Wee. In sandals and shorts. Jon is the...

Feb 9th

Stevey's Blog Rants: Emergency Elisp

Feb 8th

Senior MySQL DBA: spotting the wolf in...

Feb 8th

Google Testing Blog: Testing systems with...

Feb 8th

gong xi fa cai. the new year abounds. its the year of the rat. naturally, i’m excited

Feb 8th

besides webjet, are there more travel sites, online, that work for flights? expedia? something else?...

Feb 5th

How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop...

Feb 5th

NetworkManager couldn’t restart, because the haldaemon failed to come up after a suspend? Odd,...

Feb 4th

man, surfing the interwebs seems to be real slow for some reason… off to a CNY dinner now

Feb 4th

ERROR 1553 (HY000): You can't use locks with...

Feb 4th

Finding out largest tables on MySQL Server |...

Feb 4th

with today’s rate rise, this might be interesting to read: http://tinyurl.com/344fuj

Feb 4th

cant connect to odd ports, at the KLIA wifi… port 22 works, my usual ssh port, doesn’t

Feb 4th

while we’re at it, apparently, imap/s doesn’t work either. boo hiss

Feb 4th