Sam’s random musings

Seth’s Blog: Email checklist

Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure:

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Imperial History of Middle East in 90 seconds

A visual history of imperialism in the Middle East for the last 5,000 years.

(Via twitter.)

windows emulator

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.

Fun simple interface for some google services

Tools | MySQL Performance Blog

This page contains links to various tools we found helpful to use in practice. Some tools are written by us, others by third parties, yet another ones may be shipped with your operating system you just need to find they are there.

nice little collection of reminders

SVN rename all your CakePHP views from thtml to ctp

for file in `find . -name "*.thtml"` ; do svn mv $file `echo $file | sed s/\.thtml/\.ctp/` ; done

(Via Coding My Thoughts.)

Congratulations Phoenix!

No, not the redhead, the NASA Mars Probe. After 296 days, 422 million miles, the Mars Phoenix Lander made the first successful soft landing on Mars since the Viking landers in the 1970s. Over the next few years, we’re going to learn so much about Mars, and by extension the world around us. The data from the Phoenix Lander is going to give us information that will be hugely valuable should we ever decide to send humans to Mars. (I’m not going to get into the whole “Manned exploration is (not) useful debate other than to say: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Some things, machines just can’t do.)

This is big news here in the old pueblo, lots of ties to the U of A

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Bacon

(Via Bug Bash.)