Saturday, December 22, 2007

Links o' the day, 22 Dec 2007

Spent the morning trying to catch up on my email. I have a lot of stuff hanging in the breeze. Gotta finish reading EMRFD and start building! :-) Whilst searching for the link to the book, I found a Yahoo! group which I promptly joined. A discussion on eHam, and of course, W7ZOI's web page. Distractions, distractions.

Interesting problem on a mailing ist I frequent. The list is crawled by Google, so emails sent there are available by searching. There was a humourous thread about strange and unusual user IDs -- the sort of thing that comes up from time to time. One poster shared a user ID composed of an initial and last name; the combination making a rude word, We all laughed and thought that was the end of it.

Not so. Apparently, said user learnt about Googling own name, and Googled for said rude word and was extremely upset to find self mentioned in a casual thread in a mailing list on the Internet. Apparently so upset that self is reporting poster to HR for disciplinary action. Now, one hopes that HR will tell self to stop searching for rude words on the Internet, but the poster is highly concerned about it.

There's a possibility that the list archive software will honour x-noarchive: yes; I'll have to check that out.

Some people are doing last minute Christmas shopping. Me too. Need vinegar powder for the sushi rice to go with Vietnamese pho :-) Better get some Thai basil, too. Xie xie, Rong for telling me about Lee's Market.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Links o' the day

Daily links

There are some links I try to read every day:

What happened at today's sites:

Navy photos Has the story of a girl rescued from a cruise ship with a burst appendix. Operated on USS Reagan. Bravo Zulu!

Sub Report I didn't win the contest but I came in 2nd! The winner deserved it :-) The welding scandal seems to be calming down.

Navy Times Fmr Marine wants his marijuana plants back. He's an injured Iraq '91 vet, licensed to grow.

COMSUBLANT is still under construction.

COMSUBPAC has nothing new.

Tocqueville reports a TGV derailment!



Some links I hit today:
Loaded CoolIris Previews at work on Firefox. I like it.

Also loaded GBookmarks. I had it before but don't know what I did.

I didn't load SaveURI. I was looking for a way to simply and easily track all the places I visit in a day. This doesn;t look like it.

Foxmarks not working? Servers super slow.



How to bury a mainframe, from an email sent by Todd.



Searched for a 360 blog add-on but couldn't find one. I want to post to 360 like I can Blogger.



From my RSS blog ticker:
Beautiful canoe, political message about Polynesian life disappearing.

From StumbleUpon:
Clever adverts

A test of what gender your brain is. I'm female, but the tests are mainly visual, and I am not.

Some cool early music (ancient) from Jon Sayles and John Willbye. Downloadable MP3s. Very nice stuff.

Open Flash Chart looks great. I haven't downloaded it, but I think I will.



From researching problems:
System i WDSC custom compile command



Went prowling for noise figure info because of the ongoing discussion of receiving Selene (the lunar orbiter) with amateur equipment on the Microwave mailing list

Kerry QualComm noise source

Didier Home brew noise source

Maxim Tutorial on how to calculate noise figure.