Dec. 16th, 2011 [Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff]

Чт, 10:07: RT @WebDesignerMag: #webdesignermag #HOT100 Last chance to vote for your favourite site/agency http://t.co/VjTnsNR5 Voting closes at 5pm ...
Чт, 10:17: Recent Rereads: Tunnel In The Sky. Heinlein's dystopic juvenile is a Boy Scout reworking of Lord Of The Flies. Civilisation wins out!
Чт, 10:18: Recent Rereads: Farmer In The Sky. Heinlein's most obvious Scouts In Space story, homesteading a terraformed Ganymede.
Чт, 10:31: Aaargh. Trying to get off an email list for a members of a French-Canadian football club. People who typo gmail addresses really annoy me.
Чт, 10:34: Multi-lingual complaint sent. Most disappointed with the grammar and context engines in online translation systems.
Чт, 11:02: Since switching back to BT from C&W as DSL provider line speed has trained up around 2Mbps. Yay!
Чт, 12:32: Debugging DNS SRV records for Lync remotely with my ISP. This is as much greek to me as it is to you.
Чт, 12:44: Taking a look at the Facebook timeline preview. I actually quite like it, much better than the old profile page.
Чт, 12:46: Flying North. "Metal bird dip wing of fire" http://t.co/rTiDuFBA
Чт, 14:55: Phew. Latest pass got SRV record right. Lync is now working with our domain on Office 365. Now I can write that review...

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Чт, 20:06: Moving our shared OneNote Notebooks from the house server to SkyDrive. Makes more sense to have them in the cloud...
Чт, 21:16: ZDNet UK blog post: Microsoft fixes blog comments, speeds up blogs with open source http://t.co/Lyzi76hk #zdnetuk
Пт, 09:24: Amazed people were expecting new BlackBerrys in March. RIM *always* launches new OSes in May with hardware in September.
Пт, 12:59: Alpinism http://t.co/RHK3xAfZ
Пт, 13:06: On The Big Wall: Climbers on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park http://t.co/SBEtZjXg
Пт, 13:16: Look world. BB10 devices were always going to launch in Q3. Analysts wishing they'd come out in March doesn't make that a delay.
Пт, 16:04: RT @benlefoe: any chance of another RT or mention? Auction for signed copy of "Nelson" for Shelter ends on Sunday: http://t.co/wvG5Kwdo@ ...
Пт, 16:11: Recent Rereads: Podkayne Of Mars. Late Heinlein juvenile starts to show the path of later novels. A bowdlerised ending weakens the story.
Пт, 16:12: Recent Rereads: Space Cadet. Very early Heinlein juvenile, Space Patrol as nuclear-armed Coastguard of Boy Scouts. Duty is done, dutifully.
Пт, 16:15: Hmm. Heinlein juvenile reread project stymied at the last book. Turns out I don't have a copy of Rocketship Galileo.

Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff