Monthly Archives: February 2009
Doubletwist
I first heard about Doubletwist around a year ago, and never really expected it to turn into a real product, but it entered into public beta (on the Mac, at least) this week. It’s slogan is ‘All your stuff, on … Continue reading
links for 2009-02-24
Making Electricity Usage Graphs with the Current Cost device (tags: currentcost graphs perl electricity energy monitoring linux power) Graham White: My Notes: currentcost (tags: currentcost tech energy code) killswtch.net » Blog Archive » Power monitoring with CurrentCost (tags: currentcost tech … Continue reading
links for 2009-02-23
The Credit Crisis Visualized in Animated Infographics – information aesthetics A brilliant infographic explanation of the 'crunch'. (tags: video animation infographics finance economics visualisation) Last.fm – the Blog · "Techcrunch are full of shit" (tags: security funny blog privacy data … Continue reading
My first electricity graph
…almost. I’ve mentioned before how I’ve been reading my electricity and gas meters every four weeks or so, which gives a rough approximation of how much we’re consuming in our house. I’ve got my Current Cost meter up and running … Continue reading
links for 2009-02-17
Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow Cool presentation about interfaces between web apps, and how to get rid of polling. (tags: via:tomtaylor web api programming webservices presentation)
Just Read: Managing Humans
I’ve just finished reading ‘Managing Humans‘ by Michael Lopp, also known as Rands. It’s a witty and amusing read for anyone who has any interest in office politics, particularly those in IT. It’s written from the point of view of … Continue reading
links for 2009-02-15
Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline pledges cheap medicine for world's poor | Business | guardian.co.uk (tags: news guardian health drugs medicine)
links for 2009-02-13
CA SiteMinder Download page To get to this page, you have to log in, select the product, then download a PDF (in a Zip) which contains a link to the download page, which has download for tons of products not … Continue reading
Current Cost
My Current Cost CC128 arrived yesterday, an eagerly awaited treat after my day at Home Camp ’08. It’s already producing surprising data – when I got up this morning, the house seemed to have an ‘ambient’ power consumption of 278 … Continue reading
links for 2009-02-08
Voting Machine Audit Logs Raise More Questions about Lost Votes in CA Election | Threat Level from Wired.com (tags: politics security voting california election wired) ISE Identity Manager Tutorials – Identity Suite Essentials – wikis.sun.com (tags: sun identity idm tutorial)