On Scaling

[Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.][1]: A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. Something to read when I have some free time. Looks like a bunch of good talks/presentations… [1]: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2007/04/29/3616/the-top-10-presentation-on-scaling-websites-twitter-flickr-bloglines-vox-and-more

iSCSI initiator for OS X

[Studio Network Solutions – Download iSCSI Initiator for Mac OS X][1]: We are pleased to announce that Version 3.0 of our globalSAN iSCSI initiator for OS X is now available for download. This publicly available version is not a timed evaluation or feature-locked – it is being offered for download to any end-user who would like to take advantage of iSCSI for their Mac OS X computers. The initiator supports CHAP, persistent targets, SLPv2 and Multiple Connections per Session.

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Makes Everything Taste Like Bacon

Use your spices, and use them well. (Volume II) » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: spices, cooking, culinary, kitchen: This is a secret weapon to most home cooks: a quarter teaspoon makes everything taste like bacon, with no fat, salt, or factory farms. [Bacon you say?!?!?!?][2] I bet Willie would love this stuff. [2]: http://crispbacon.com/

My Firefox, April 13

Generated: Fri Apr 13 2007 09:39:53 GMT-0500 (CDT) User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070224 BonEcho/2.0.0.2 Build ID: 0000000000 Enabled Extensions: [40] Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.5 – filtersetg@updater – Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4 – {d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d} – Ads were yesterday! All-in-One Gestures 0.18.0 – {8b86149f-01fb-4842-9dd8-4d7eb02fd055} – This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.

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Remote Control your experience

[TeamViewer – Free Desktop Sharing and Remote Control][1]: Instantly take control over a computer anywhere on the Internet, even through firewalls. No installation required, just use it fast and secure. Nice nice nice nice nice – I really could have used this earlier today trying to help troubleshoot a problem with someone’s email setup 1000 miles away. (Sorry Smythe!) [1]: http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx

BT automation

[The Technocrat » Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X][1]: [1]: http://hollington.ca/technocrat/?p=44

Xee? Whee!

[Xee][1]: Xee is useful as a more powerful replacement for Preview, or most any other image viewer available on Mac OS X. It is very fast, and uses less memory than most other image viewing tools. It also uses OpenGL to display and scroll images much more smoothly than other viewers. Its interface is highly streamlined and has easily configurable keyboard shortcuts. And it’s got a cool name to boot.

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the evil cube

[The Rubiks Cube Solution][1]: Take your time, work through all of the steps until you understand them and you’ll be able to successfully solve the rubik’s cube. [1]: http://www.chessandpoker.com/rubiks-cube-solution.html

human powered flight

[Walkalong Glider, X-Surfer Group, USA][1]: Human powered model soaring (walkalong gliding) is a simple way of both sustaining and controlling a model airplane in flight using the rising air from a suitably positioned moving paddle. Sounds interesting! [1]: http://www.geocities.com/x_surfer2004/index.html

kitchen computing

[Kitchen PC with laptop twist][1]: Kitchen PC with laptop twist [1]: http://www.instructables.com/id/E5QRQ5VFLEEYNDWRF8?ALLSTEPS