Glom + More
Sunday 11 June 2006 at 3:53 pm. GUI Database Tool - Glom. Has the admirably goal of trying to provide an open source FileMaker Pro type tool that makes it easy to harness the power of a SQL backend.Useful - Designing small Windows networks.
Analysing logs is such a chore - Log Parser for Exchange/IIS. Someone would make a killing if they wrote a good log parser / analyser.
Awesome - Powers of Ten. Exponential photography - starts with a picnic and goes in both directions - subatomic and astronomical.
Network analyser changes name and moves on - Ethereal is now Wireshark.
These guys inspired the
movie - The Mountains of Pi.
Brilliant - Lemonade Economy as a metaphor for Tax Cuts. The tax rate really bites - watching 30% of you wage disappear every month for little obvious reward is tough. In NZ the single biggest employer is the government which is a little ironic - our taxes go back into paying most of our wages. You are left wondering why we need such bureaucracy. Then again we're a tiny country and the taxes and money saved by the government are a hedge against an aging population and a volatile global economy so its perfectly good fiscal policy to save while we can.
Not about guns - How to shoot. I find it really hard to shoot anything other than scenery which kind of makes all my pictures look touristy and generic. Maybe I feel its to much of an imposition to shoot people without their consent.
Excellent - Reverse Snobbery. Wonderful domain name too
Hopefully this project will make a real difference - More on the One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC).
An alternative use for Apples Frontrow remote control - Sofa Control.
Useful - Shaving Tips. I don't have the patience for this however I can vouch for a hot shave with a good lather (coconut soap works really well) and a dab of moisturiser.
Interesting - Five Star Rolling Stone Music Reviews. The amazing thing is the number of Miles Davis records featured in the list.
Why does Microsoft make this so painful - Swing Migration for Exchange.
Some nice movie reviews - Movie Martyr.
Useful - Scripting AD.
Handy - Learn Python Tutorial for OSX.
Procrastination - webcomics - 'Hold my life', 'Nine planets without intelligent life', 'Gunnerkrigg Court', 'Secret Friend Society', 'Dicebox'.
Looks good - Wired looks at Google Spreadsheet. Although Microsoft Office has a degree of application stability that a web-browser hasn't got (all it takes is one tab in Firefox to crash . . .). Also with all this web-hosted application goodness you have to wonder what protects your data from prying eyes ?
Guy Kawasaki previews iWoz - Steve Woznaiks biography.
