Author Archives: cdn

Product Placement in Literature in the 21st Century

Posted on April 10, 2011 by cdn

Having just been reading Moonraker and in light of product placement coming to UK television. What would Ian Fleming do if he, were alive today and, published James Bond novels online? In Sebastian Faulks’ recent series “Faulks on Fiction”, he … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-27

Posted on September 27, 2010 by cdn

Co-op Lasagne tastes better without carpet # #ff @onion2k – a wittier, more competent and social cdn #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-20

Posted on September 20, 2010 by cdn

http://alasir.com/software/cpuinfo/ – useful for non-Linux unices when /proc/cpuinfo isn't there # Be ye a http://thieving.bilge-r.at ? International Talk Like A Pirate Day #itlapd #tlapd #talklikeapirate Arrrr #

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Yes, this IS getting boring

Posted on May 24, 2010 by cdn

Upgraded most of the short linking I’ve been doing outside wordpress/la-petite-url to use yourls; except, of course, that a quick bit of sql didn’t translate everything. The MySQL insert into yourls_url select key1, target, timestamp(concat(year, ‘-’, month, ‘-’,day, ‘ 12:00:00′)), … Continue reading →

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Migrants

Posted on November 1, 2009 by cdn

This [short] blog post should be coming to you from a Shared Accelerator at Joyent running Solaris; rather than the obsolescent FreeBSD server it used to be served from … there was no rush for a Golden Ticket – let … Continue reading →

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