Sorry, another Link Post. QA testing is going on at work, so 1) the release is getting close because Waterfall + fixed deadline = really scrunched testing timeline, 2) now everyone gets to find out what parts of the specs were just flat out wrong, or what parts need some creative re-writing to reflect bugs in integrating systems. Both of which mean every issue is a Severity 1, Priority 1, RUSH, RUSH, RUSH issue. Yet it always seems to just work out. Hmm...

Oh, and a quick shout-out & HI! to all the new visitors who are coming here because that kid jumped off the Vista Bridge & killed himself last week. Enjoy the pictures of the bridge! It's things like this that make me glad I don't have ads and so am not profiting from the 3x increase in traffic from such a tragic event.

• Hurray for Harry Potter!
• Monkeys! fun! Smuggling! not fun!
• hahahaha! "Jane Austen's Fight Club"!
• okay, weird video...but it has monkeys!
• Maybe I'm crazy, but most of these items don't seem that strange to me. (via J-Walk)
• Wow! "Vitamin Water" is not supposed to be healthy?!

Now playing: Donna Lewis – Now in a Minute – 03 I Love You Always Forever

Sorry, it's been a bit since the last post...between work picking up (insanely) and talking to a new friend , things have been busy. I've actually got a stack of pictures of Portland/Fleet Week to go through & tag & post, so hopefully those will go up at some point. Anyway, here's a link post:

• Interesting (via JWZ)
• Accurate
• Reading another web comic
• (the Lego pictures just made me smile...)
• mmmm...pancakes
• ah...computer humor...gets me every time
• fun! programming humor! (via EricGu)
• Floating TARDIS
• Ummm...okay?...
• cool: lego printer
• wow...number 1 for *serial killers* (via J-Walk Blog)
• http://www.bugbash.net/comic/21.html'>http://www.bugbash.net/comic/21.html'>Need to remember this for the next meeting I'm in
• haha
• Awesome! PowerShell + Visual Studio
• This is a bit too much driving in a week for my tastes...
• Oh dear god no. NO. Even the imagining of it is painful

Now playing: Josh Ritter – So Runs The World Away – 06 Folk Bloodbath

So this weekend ended up being spent watching a TV show (Burn Notice, season 2), getting support calls from work, and trying to get CentOS v5.4 working as a Hyper-V VM so I can experiment with replacing ISA/TMG with something that supports IPv6 fully...

Since nothing of note happened, it's time to pull out the good ol' Link Post:

• Sounds like it might be time to re-read Jennifer Government : Elect A Corporation?
• Muhahaha! Fear me reality! : Those Who Forget History
• Also funny; may have to try sometime : Trivial Pursuits
• Scary : The Open Gate | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine (via Comments on 'Deliberate Explosive Devices')
• Awesome & pretty : Best Blue Marble Images Yet
• I concur (FYI, I'm a developer...) : Project Manager’s vs. Developer’s View
• Yearly bonuses came out right before I found this. For some reason that just made me feel guilty... : Global Rich List
• Okay, Visual Studio 2010 is cool : Image Insertion – Extension #2
• Yet another "Cat and Girl" comic...I guess it's pretty obvious which web comic I started reading... (& FYI, I live in Portland) : Tall Tales
• First reaction was to the pictures (ooo! pretty area!)...after reading it, I want a zipline too... : I want a zip line.
• Informative : History of the user-agent string
• :'( : Hug me
• And I know where *I* think I fit on this diagram...what's everyone else think? : This Does Appear To Be The Accepted Definition…

Now playing: Lifehouse – Smoke & Mirrors – 06 From Where You Are

• Funny: Preordering the Apple Tablet (okay, so more funny before the official announcement)
• Also funny...I suspect it applies to other airlines too: Still Living Like a Runaway - Working with your customer support is like hiring...
• For some reason I couldn't help but think this tied into the iPad at first glance... : The J-Walk Blog: Apple Calendar
• Fun wastes of time (computer geeks only; everyone else will probably just be puzzled?): It looks a little like CMD except there is white on the background
• Techy article (although Windows Internals goes into more depth, this still provides a nice detailed but concise summary): What is IRQL?
• Must...resist...impluse...to...buy...device... (honestly, I've got no idea what I'd do with it, but whoa does it look geeky & cool!): Realtime Brainwave Data with WPF
• & finally, oooo...pretty: APOD: 2010 February 6 - Hong Kong Sky

Now playing: Rose Cousins – The Send Off – 01 I Were The Bird

Clearing out a couple months accumulation of things...my excuse for so few is "the holidays"...

• Birthday gift to self? : Bruce Schneier doll
• Kind of reassuring (at the time...not so much now...) : Everyon is just an email away
• Neat visualization : Link (via The rise of nations)
• And so the robot revolution begins! (I mean it this time!) : Roomba saves child from deadly viper
• awww... : Cute overload
• There were 6 cats at home this Christmas. *6*. : Tracking a cat
• (For Emil) : fine, your desktop isn't that bad : unused icons
• Interesting idea? : outsourcing art
• While it's a very lovely peacock...ouch...just ouch on the choice of medium : british ink

Now playing: Brandi Carlile – Give Up The Ghost – 08 I Will

Bunch of random thoughts here...kind of like a Link Post only much more commentary than usual, so...

Hmm...maybe I should think about taking a vacation: RP among National Geographic’s 25 travel destinations. Sounds like it would be pretty & relaxing & nice. Or maybe not take a vacation; not sure what I'd do there (yes, there's a reason to go, but I've got this stupid hang-up around needing to be invited over first (and I'm fairly certain at this point that that wont happen)).

Moving pictures of the typhoon disasters in RP (well, I found them moving at least; might be different if you're not sitting warm & dry in a recliner thousands of miles away...).

I'd forgotten about how much I liked Wire in the Blood until both Emil mentioned it, and Leverage-writer-guy blogged about it on the same night. Although for some reason that just made me want to watch Spooks again instead...

Interesting blog post about politics & economics. Not sure I fully agree with the post, but an interesting view nonetheless.

Fascinating reading about the Olson time zone database. No, seriously! It's not that boring! Okay, so given my penchant for regional settings, date formats, & other miscellaneous bits, I might be a bit biased. Go check it out & find out for yourself. (aside: examples of my wierdness: 24 hour clocks, clocks set to UTC, ISO8601 formatting (yes, I may even have multiple editions of the standard!), usage of Celsius, changing of currency formatting so the currency symbol is after the #, usage of the space as a number group separator, etc.)

Cool: instructions on how to get the Active Directory detection of TMG servers to work. Now I just need to upgrade Forefront TMG and implement this client feature...

Haven't watched this video series yet, but it was referred to me as a good introduction to functional programming.

Recommended UEFI-based Disk Partition Configurations : read that if setting up an EFI booting Windows system! It'll make things a lot easier.

And a sign that I've been dealing WAY too much with thermal/power management: first reaction to this comic was total confusion – which plate? the one reinforcing the heatsink mount? there's no thermal sensor/thermocouple there is there? maybe it's referring to part of the chassis? but that doesn't get hot? and why would I be being warned anyway...shouldn’t everything just safely throttle down?

Now playing: Joel Plaskett – Three (Disc 1) – 9 Run, Run, Run

• No comment
• Cute video. Not sure about the Bladerunner ref.
• I hope this isn't true, but it'd explain a lot...
• I should just find a way to replace my "Favorite Book" listing on Social Networks with this comic (plus, now I have a couple of extra books to try and find :P)
• Oh how true this is...
• All the time too...all the time...
• Cool graphic; not so cool typhoon. And it doesn't help that after Ondoy there was Pepeng...and now maybe Ramil? :(
• Very cool (astronomy pictures)
• The robot revolution; it's coming! (more on the computers taking over in November...if I remember)

Now playing: Joel Plaskett – Three (Disc 1) – 09 Run, Run, Run

• Disaster movie parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0
• I live in the orange building in the background :) : http://twitpic.com/e5ggu
• Hey, I was *there* back at the beginning of July! : http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/good_brakes/
• Interesting site...don't like the pay part though, since it's simple enough to get all the information yourself : http://www.spokeo.com/single/search?e=jstults@live.com (via http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2009/08/how-to-figure-out-if-youre-dealing-with-a-nutcase.html)
• Cool explanation of differential (used in cars) : http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=4642
• Not sure any of these really apply : http://graphjam.com/2009/08/26/song-chart-memes-have-girlfriend/
• Interesting application...I doubt my TV supports it though : http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090829/windows-7-application-controls-backlight-ordinary-webcam/
• Oh no! Squid! : http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2009/08/the_ultimate_squid_self-portra.php
• Someone has too much marketing money : http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/488414-Do-you-bing/
• We don't have fancy IP phones at work. I've thought that it'd be a good idea to actually upgrade to modern technology, but this post (and especially the comments!) has been making me reconsider that idea... (update: surprise! guess what phones we're getting now at work!) : http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/08/25/9883078.aspx
• Amusing : http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/rotated_images/huh...never knew this was how a sewing machine worked : http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/sewing_machine/
• For some reason the geek in me wants one of these trash cans now : http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/advances_in_trash_cans/
• Ah, to be a kid again. Although going this far might be a bit too much. : http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/lego_house/

Now playing: Pete Samples – Yours Makes Mine – 04 Between Exhales