2008 archive

  1. A quote from Igor Tamerlan in Bali

  2. A late 2008 coffee induced night rambling

  3. Merry Yuletide Greetings from Singapore!

  4. Using env in shebang scripting language lines

  5. Remembering my silly mum one year on

  6. Agitating Google Reader users!

  7. My phantom Ourmedia account is a phantom

  8. On Rambling, Tanglin Mall, Nikon D90s

  9. Google Reader struggle continues!

  10. Eventually there will be posts with substance

  11. Servage hacking, Rubenerd blocking update

  12. RubenerdShow.com and Servage have just been blocked

  13. My political compass, mild left wing libertarian?

  14. Chicken soup, a nice thick blanket and a book of cliches

  15. And back to Singapore we go

  16. Oh no, it’s an Adelaide rambling post!

  17. I learned something this evening about Nepal

  18. A Soup.io kitchen for Pownce users

  19. Stop blaming Microsoft for cybersecurity woes?

  20. An involved Optus customer support debacle

  21. Pownce exported me a 404 error screen

  22. Ten fresh Rubenerd Fun Facts, part four

  23. Another adventure with an Australian bank

  24. Text message insight philosophy

  25. On Google Reader, the iPhone and J-Walkyness

  26. Making Firefox 3 look like a Mac browser

  27. Camera flash philosophy by Brandon Hoover

  28. Having fun with out Aussie download quotas

  29. I’m being punished for supporting blog comments!

  30. Singapore benefit concert for jazz great Michael Stanton

  31. Sleepy head seal by Dave Wares

  32. My attempt at a Canadian Liberal NDP coalition post

  33. Canada and Australia are kinda similar, eh, mate

  34. Lesson 5 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  35. Scripts to make Google Reader usable again!

  36. Comment on my Bill O’Reilly Flickr photo

  37. Adelaide Airport at 22:00

  38. It started as a post about drafts!

  39. A koobface nail in the coffin for Facebook

  40. Google Reader takes a turn for the bland

  41. Google Map of Adelaide Christmas light displays

  42. Is this shipping table normal?

  43. Net censorship like trying to boil the ocean

  44. Conflicting xml:lang attribute woes

  45. What the 15 inch MacBook Pro really needs

  46. Gordon Haff’s Pervasive Datacentre review

  47. I’ll let Stewie Griffin answer this comment

  48. Visualising Google searches with StateStats

  49. Randy Fullerton’s comments on my sleep post

  50. The dramas behind the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar

  51. Google Reader at 3am: sleep related stories

  52. 101 things we’ve learned from video games

  53. Enabling the Processor preference pane

  54. Ten fresh new Rubenerd Fun Facts, part three

  55. This aeroplane looks like it’s wearing mascara

  56. Search for a killer desktop replacement combo

  57. Late Linehaul Frt Delayed and other observations

  58. My final Pownce post for posterity

  59. Pownce export feature now available

  60. Goodbye Pownce, I Hardly Used Thee

  61. Having lots of fun with Wordle

  62. Never thought I’d have 1000 posts!

  63. They listened! DBS no longer supporting FOTF

  64. Warm feedback for my DBS FOTH post

  65. Drive catastrophe, good thing I have solid backups

  66. Rare occasion when Ruben genuinely feels happy!

  67. OPML feed for Great Australian Firewall resources

  68. Coldplay snubs Adelaide on their Aussie tour

  69. Catpuccino

  70. Ruben’s words of camera phone wisdom

  71. iPhone 2.2 makes MobileSafari usable again!

  72. The GetUp Team on the Great Australian Firewall

  73. DBS Bank’s support for Focus on the Family

  74. Installing Alpine on Mac OS X

  75. Calling BS on cancer wait and see approach

  76. Diplomatic responses to my government bailout

  77. Ended up as an non-ode ode to John C. Dvorak

  78. Show 259: The Nicole Kidman David Letterman episode

  79. My own current woes with realtors and rent

  80. Disable Marker Felt on iPhone, iPod Touch Notes

  81. Show 258: The recycling bin rescue episode

  82. Have bank bailouts exposed a serious flaw?

  83. I heart clouds, latest photos

  84. Ten fresh Rubenerd Fun Facts, part two

  85. Misleading late night Citibank commercials

  86. Show 257: The freak Aussie weather and iPhone 2.2 episode

  87. Sunday afternoon philosophy: spiritual atheism

  88. New Woolies logo looks icky and Web 2.0

  89. Preliminary results of NetBSD on a MacBook Pro

  90. Ruben’s epic Phantom of the Opera Ghost File

  91. Western Digital Scorpio Black 298GiB goodness

  92. Freshly baked Camino 1.6.5 now out

  93. An Adelaide Airport addendum post thing

  94. On Adelaide Airport, Embraer E-Jets

  95. Ten fresh new Rubenerd Fun Facts!

  96. Blog spammers now using targeted advertising?

  97. Podcast feed has been fixed

  98. Whole Wheat Radio, MySpace, Wikipedia

  99. Is General Motors worth saving? Well…

  100. Nostalgic for credit crunch days

  101. David Letterman’s Late Show Fun Facts arrived!

  102. Even Ferraris need to be pushed!

  103. Ruben’s mostly-fail-safe method for beating blues

  104. The EFA’s Dale Clapperton on Triple M

  105. My review was featured on Elgato.com!

  106. Lesson 4 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  107. Alaskan senate election race news

  108. Our Prime Minister is now on Twitter!

  109. I’m calling it quits on Facebook

  110. Somehow I don’t think I’ll be sending this

  111. Show 256: The Moleskine retro 256 episode

  112. It was a hot one in Adelaide yesterday

  113. Google Reader feature requests

  114. Windows 3.x on Mac OS X using DOSBox

  115. Spamhaus names Microsoft in their top 5

  116. Running Windows 3.x on a MacBook Pro

  117. Video: Now there’s a gas leak in Adelaide!

  118. Remembrance Day header image updated

  119. Reminiscing about DOS, Windows 3.x

  120. Australian internet censorship pilot to commence

  121. Remembrance Day

  122. Conroy, fix the Internet before you censor it

  123. Reduced profits of auto companies a good thing?

  124. Google Reader, take three!

  125. My falling out with Microsoft actually explained

  126. My HiME NetBSD desktop background whatnot

  127. Possible reason why there’s no MacBook FireWire

  128. Google Reader has me bamboozled

  129. Roast beef sandwiches for underage cats

  130. Assigning applications to spaces on Mac OS X Leopard

  131. Notes on using NetBSD’s pkgsrc on Mac OS X

  132. Streaming wheaty audio success!

  133. Important philosophical post on Barack Obama

  134. Someone thinks internet filtering is a good idea?

  135. The world needed Barack Obama

  136. Steven Fry’s salient tweet about America

  137. Twitter chatter over Obama win

  138. Obama has won!

  139. Public service announcement for American friends

  140. Lesson 3 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  141. Final post on the American elections tomorrow

  142. Even more woes with streaming internet audio

  143. Sophisticated MacBook Pro cooling consulting solution

  144. People in Australia talking about Obama

  145. Metadata urges is an unfortunate title

  146. McCain discusses Australia, Obama does not

  147. Private Investigation of Private Investigations

  148. Internet censorship discussed on Aussie breakfast TV

  149. Rubenerd Blog October 2008 rambling summary

  150. New Aussie NoCleanFeed protest graphics

  151. Apple, these are my FireWire drives

  152. How to forcibly eject drives in Mac OS X

  153. Only problem so far with the iPhone: MobileSafari

  154. Ominous post numbers are ominous

  155. No Clean Feed, No Censorship on Australian internet

  156. iPhone public transport ramblings

  157. Windows 7’s blatant duplication of KDE’s interface

  158. Ever wondered what a new airliner door looks like?

  159. On RSS, Michael Moore, Jim Kloss and Taxis

  160. Creating and using restricted accounts on Mac OS X

  161. Brief flirtation with FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro is over

  162. Mac OS X thinks Adelaide is in eastern Australia

  163. MacBook a winner, unless you need FireWire

  164. Sarah Palin’s non-answers are scarier

  165. I can now boot FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro!

  166. Avaaz.org message for American friends

  167. Keyboard and coffee, Sent from my iPhone

  168. Australia would vote for Obama

  169. Open letter to overseas Facebook users

  170. Palin pick backfired amongst younger voters!

  171. My MacBook Pro likes bras… whoa, what?

  172. The penultimate plus one MacBook FireWire post

  173. Addressing some MacBook FireWire arguments

  174. Tips for compiling KDE 4.1 from FreeBSD ports

  175. The Simpsons 0913: Joy of Sect

  176. Apple still claims the MacBook includes FireWire

  177. Obituary for FireWire 1999-2008

  178. Open seven days a week, it means to us

  179. The verdict is in, my readers rule!

  180. Apple’s tragic FireWire MacBook mistake

  181. When people lose interest in you, use Qwitter

  182. An audience with the prime minister

  183. If you like my writing, you can buy me a coffee!

  184. I wasn’t born yet: the Convair 880

  185. We need a world government, and we need it now

  186. Come home, it’s supper time!

  187. If only oil cost just 100 dollars a barrel!

  188. Registering for Brightkite fun, just a slight mistake

  189. New aluminium block MacBook Pros are nice, mostly!

  190. Journalistic merging of wikis and blogs?

  191. I really should pay more attention when I toast

  192. New Apple notebook hardware, waffle irons

  193. New quality of life rankings, why I’m skeptical.

  194. This is what an economic bounce-back looks like

  195. Inspirational morning quote of a quote

  196. Show 255: The pointless OS rambling episode

  197. Nobody will ever need 16GiB, right?

  198. So much feedback, yet this barely qualifies as a post

  199. Even Aussies think Sarah Palin is funny!

  200. Okay I admit it, I like the USA

  201. Bill Withers had a lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

  202. The REAL reason CBA is buying BankWest

  203. Blue Day 2008 and Mental Health Week

  204. Ouch

  205. Spring wildflower photos in Mawson Lakes

  206. My view on the role of capitalism, via Twitter

  207. Free and open source Mac software goodies

  208. AltaVista Babel Fish is no more

  209. Australian daylight savings has started. Free map!

  210. Misleading airliner news headlines are misleading

  211. Andy The Code Kaufman Geass Quiz Kaufman

  212. Sarah Palin, Russia, parliament, stupidity

  213. Nitpicking open source and free… again

  214. 3/700ths of a Wall Street bailout will feed every child

  215. Show 254: The IntoYourHead show war episode

  216. My kingdom for a bigger notebook hard drive

  217. A midlife crisis… at 22?

  218. Remembering Paul Newman in my own way

  219. Show 253: The Singapore Grand Prix and bills episode

  220. GM Holden’s answer to rising fuel prices

  221. 9rules is not a manufacturer of luxury tape measures

  222. Happy 10th birthday wishes for Google

  223. My sister Elke now has a lettuth weblog

  224. Fun with the Mac OS X weather widget

  225. How do you curb weblog sporadic-ness?

  226. BeOS, the Amiga, now the iPhone?

  227. Show 252: The airport scare iPhone episode

  228. At least Australian banks are weathering crisis just fine

  229. Okay okay I got an iPhone!

  230. Show 251: The telco malice episode

  231. It’s a personal pineapple

  232. Freshly baked Camino 1.6.4 now out

  233. Show 250: The quarter millennium episode

  234. Not everyone approves of Ginger in Rundle Mall

  235. Show 249: The Saturday laughter episode

  236. My OS pipe dream, and HP developing a Linux distro?

  237. Disingenuousity isn’t a word, but should be

  238. Show 248: The unplugged Mawson Lakes scare episode

  239. Ourmedia has deleted me!

  240. Doing my bit to advertise Wheatstalk 2008!

  241. Google Chrome goodness!

  242. On the Mawson Lakes library and common sense

  243. Rendering sports commentators unnecessary!

  244. Networking issue to blame for poor VMware Fusion BSD performance?

  245. RBA drops interest rates by quarter percent

  246. Sunrise, Spring and September musingS

  247. VMware Fusion 2.0 Release Candidate 1 available

  248. Do we all like HP’s new logo?

  249. VIDEO: Replacing the fan in my MacBook Pro

  250. Common sense is the least common

  251. Eye really like my EyeTV

  252. The NSA incomplete sentences quiz

  253. A revisited MacVim editor review

  254. I have James Woods!

  255. Sustainable Olympics? Haha!

  256. Wireless networking and podcast musings

  257. Cleaning out accumulated FTP crap

  258. Eeirily accurate web comics are eeiry

  259. Eerie night Mawson Lakes train station photo

  260. I believe in the United Nations Charter

  261. Is WordPress news not anymore?

  262. Lesson 2 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  263. The Church of the New World Order!

  264. It turned into a Vim and GNU nano ramble post

  265. VMware Fusion 2.0 beta2 with FreeBSD review

  266. Homer Simpson’s barbecue pit

  267. This useless 810th post has the ID 1337

  268. I’ve changed Twitter clients, again

  269. Jaiku: 2008-08

  270. OPEN Networks can’t spell Porsche

  271. On students and generic brand goodness

  272. Drive letters in Mac OS X

  273. Internode rocks!

  274. Automatically quitting Terminal.app windows

  275. Post 800!

  276. A lesson in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  277. Virgin Broadband doesn’t like my money!

  278. Athletes are more important, what’s new?

  279. Can’t log in after upgrading to WordPress 2.6

  280. Phone line connection musings

  281. The Adobe Flash of the comments world

  282. Olympics tomorrow, and other musings

  283. Telecommunications infrastructure shock…?

  284. Taking the high road, I hope!

  285. Western Digital MyBook DHCP adventure

  286. On Adelaide life updates and tank chairs

  287. Starbucks shuts down in South Australia

  288. Hotlinking isn’t. Ruben arrested for bad heading

  289. Jaiku: 2008-07

  290. Adelaide life update

  291. Photos from Perth

  292. Back in Adelaide, world business rant

  293. Only one problem with strong encryption

  294. On Zimbabwe and operating systems

  295. I’m very proud of this svelte post

  296. The Evolt browser archive

  297. Backing up CDs to ISOs on FreeBSD

  298. FreeBSD AMD64 is good for you

  299. The Boeing 777 for the 777th post

  300. Tunneling X11 through SSH on Mac OS X

  301. Fun with Xfce part 4: Using Openbox

  302. The CNET Mac Conspiracy

  303. Downloaded Firefox 3.0, still on Camino

  304. Steve Dirr at Whole Wheat Radio!

  305. Show 247: The barely listenable web development episode

  306. Show 246: The “Fairness Engine” rant episode

  307. Show 245: The double net whammy and computer speed episode

  308. Jaiku: 2008-06

  309. Show 244: The somewhat psychedelic difficult people episode

  310. Power failures are.

  311. Long live the Cobind Desktop

  312. Heh heh, piano tuner

  313. Whole Wheat Radio Wireless@SG problems

  314. Fun with Xfce, part three

  315. Fun with Xfce, part two

  316. Boeing 767 for post 767

  317. Fun with Xfce, part one

  318. Show 243: The FreeBSD Debian drivers rant episode

  319. Ruby 1.8.7 released

  320. Jim is back, my own go at philosophy

  321. Jaiku: 2008-05

  322. Sus meeting up spam

  323. Recover forgotten passwords in Camino

  324. Back in KL again

  325. Brian Jude rocks, chemtrails, Hanlon’s razor

  326. Just ordered a Yubikey

  327. Latest computer book haul

  328. Boeing 757 for post 757

  329. VIM security note for FreeBSD folks

  330. KDE user moving his main machine to GNOME

  331. Zip and rar archives in Gnome

  332. Zhang Xuan painter post

  333. Huge fallen tree on Stevens Road photos

  334. Adeliade and Wichita, is it just me?

  335. Hey Joe, what’s your handicap?

  336. Web 8.0 goodness

  337. Using Twhirl with Jaiku

  338. 747 post, bad taking off pun

  339. Camino and Google Reader atom problems

  340. Very expensive podcast folder nostalgia

  341. Message to James Kloss

  342. Google Reader shared items

  343. Retro Atlantic Neon signs

  344. NTP primer on FreeBSD, NetBSD

  345. Google says I’m a spammer, again

  346. The iPhone in Australia

  347. FreeBSD on an Armada M300 rocks

  348. 737 posts, bad taking off pun

  349. Double uh oh

  350. Can you categorise too much?

  351. Data capacity then and now, pretty amazing!

  352. Microsoft not to buy Yahoo?

  353. Showing network drives on an OS X desktop

  354. Setting up MediaWiki for registered user edits only

  355. They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

  356. Happy May!

  357. Show 241: The Labour Day forgetting things episode

  358. A pleasant afternoon quiz distraction

  359. Jaiku: 2008-04

  360. All work and no sleep makes Ruben something

  361. Konqueror suppoirt isn’t a new Gmail feature

  362. Show 240: The fast food and Starbucks episode

  363. Incredible SGD579 laptop deal

  364. On Adobe Air, limited accounts, updating, BSD

  365. Spreadsheet adventures (and Excel 08 sucks!)

  366. Well there you go, the K does mean something

  367. Show 239: The Crash Test Dummies and silly people episode

  368. RMS Queen Mary 2 size comparison

  369. I’m not being blocked so far!

  370. You see, iWork is like a box of chocolates

  371. The Commodore logo stats conspiracy

  372. Specify image dimensions and save the world!

  373. Show 238: The why I am an atheist episode

  374. Starbucks or Makkers for studying?

  375. JB Singapore urban rails: about time!

  376. Uh oh

  377. Unnecessarily verbose WWR post

  378. Show 237: The Whole Wheat Renovators episode

  379. A philosophical Twitter question

  380. Cutting Mono out of GNOME on FreeBSD

  381. Show 236: The ridiculous fun with a label printer episode

  382. Why do you use Twitter?

  383. Show 235: The Elke Sims 2 bombardment episode

  384. Batam trip: Straits of Singapore photos!

  385. Inheriting a little Armada M300 subnotebook!

  386. Using del.icio.us just as a bookmark repository

  387. Show 234: The Tasmania and ranting about news episode

  388. My favourite free Windows 2000 security tools

  389. 587 more reasons to like Whole Wheat Radio

  390. Making restitution for my Vista post

  391. Show 233: The disjointed indie media and building things episode

  392. A silly happy birthday Elke!

  393. Back from Batam

  394. UN report on women chilling, not surprising

  395. Coffee Bean at Bishan

  396. Useless post 700 post milestone post

  397. Jaiku: 2008-03

  398. My Windows Vista Home Premium adventure

  399. Intel’s breathtaking photos from Twitter

  400. My suspension of disbelief was DOA

  401. Wikipedia reaches 10 million articles!

  402. The Internet Explorer Q Continuum

  403. The podcast word debate is anything but simple!

  404. Comments instead of the forum

  405. Show 232: The useless Rubenerd 22nd birthday episode

  406. UPS tracking excitement!

  407. I’m 22, but I won’t wear one!

  408. A Whole Wheaty birthday!

  409. Apple bundling Safari was dumb

  410. Frank Edward Nora’s electronic makeover!

  411. Ironic Adobe FreeBSD advertising

  412. Ed Craver and Esther Golton make my Monday!

  413. A philosophical security question

  414. No need to Ask who wins this Easter

  415. Dodgy Windows virus scanner on FreeBSD!

  416. Insanely useful webapp to convert PDF to SVG

  417. Archaic existence rude metals spam

  418. From WWR: The Renovators Don’t Ski

  419. What happened to groovy Scripting News?

  420. Google Earth shows QE2 in Sydney!

  421. Welcome home Esther!

  422. Sleek Openbox in KDE on FreeBSD

  423. Does believing in God make you happier?

  424. Tibet and the Olympics, a sign?

  425. Debian Etch for 5, then back to Slackware

  426. No LockerGnome, I now block you

  427. Should Wikipedia be a time capsule?

  428. He uses the word people a lot

  429. Glad legal systems don’t work like this!

  430. Is embedded spam getting worse?

  431. Powered by FreeBSD case sticker

  432. Boohoo Microsoft Yahoo paraphernalia

  433. Faulty Intel DQ35JO motherboard fun

  434. Twitter keeps trying to recruit me

  435. The super wicked evil 666 post!

  436. On low profile PCI cards and Microsoft tax

  437. A shallot by any other name

  438. Barack Obama, Bob Brown Awesomeness!

  439. Rubenerd Blog made it to Upian’s Hot Links!

  440. Family post with technical sociological term thingys

  441. Jeremy Zawodny inspired Yahoo scenarios

  442. Migrating from del.icio.us to Magnolia

  443. KDE 3.5.8 font registration fun

  444. Microsoft and Yahoo? Better close my accounts!

  445. Leopard surprises me in February!

  446. Twitter is down again!

  447. Nokia buying Trolltech!

  448. Ec5618 on evolution

  449. A back from Sydney circumlocution

  450. Accumulated holiday spam fun

  451. Debra Ross, Mummy’s funeral