2009 archive

  1. Eurotrip Post the First!

  2. 2009 Yuletide greetings

  3. Uniqlo made me like clothes shopping!

  4. Rubenerd Blog 24(*10^2)

  5. The Unarchiver 2.2 rocks

  6. Links for 2009-12-22

  7. Half-baked Alaska

  8. The Great Australian and Chinese Firewalls

  9. Letter for the leaders in Copenhagen

  10. How web business still surprises me

  11. Palm nostalgia and marketing folk

  12. Our dog Romeo is feeling better

  13. Links for 2009-12-19

  14. I can’t call her Laura Douglass anymore!

  15. Australian International School campus in 2004

  16. The Tennant 5700 industrial scrubber

  17. #Anime Cute picture of sock-clad Yui instead

  18. Can’t work Qt4-QtRuby on Snow Leopard

  19. James Cameron’s Avatar was AMAZING

  20. Choosing between Ruby/Tk or Java Swing

  21. Bummer, I have to contact myself

  22. Happy 8th anniversary GigaOm!

  23. Great Firewall of Australia will happen

  24. Prevent [Ruby/]Tk window resizing

  25. Messing around with YAML and Ruby

  26. @FakeAPStylebook titbit tidbit tidbid

  27. Logitech Powered USB Hub schweetness

  28. Links for 2009-12-12

  29. Ruby.conspriracy?

  30. Incentives for not drink driving instead?

  31. I won’t be using MarsEdit, for now

  32. Links for 2009-12-11

  33. Grandpa the Nighthawk

  34. My Open Web Awards, Mashable be darned!

  35. Closest I could get to a cake for @Tarale

  36. Short post: Why I blog

  37. SingTel Huawei E180 on Snow Leopard

  38. DéLonghi Magnifica loud noises fixed!

  39. Links for 2009-12-06

  40. Random iPhone photos from Singapore

  41. Bing wasn’t the page you wanted

  42. Ultra fancy new Planitonearth maps

  43. Yay, December! November is over!

  44. Tony Abbott, Liberal Party self destructing

  45. FreeBSD 8.0

  46. TweetDeck Twitter Lists support

  47. Sarah Palin’s book is… nonfiction?

  48. #WorldAidsDay

  49. Market research fail

  50. Sorry for flooding your blog aggregator!

  51. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on Audible!

  52. For today Oli Young is The Word!

  53. David O’Doherty D’Ont get The Twitters!

  54. Shell TrueCrypt on OS X

  55. Pixelated Snow Leopard icon problem

  56. Open house inspection peoples

  57. Teacher strike action with the NTEU

  58. Aussie ISPs responsible for copyright?

  59. Audible review that’s Far Too Long

  60. Escape to the Country on 7Two

  61. Audible.com or Audible.co.uk?

  62. Mininova going the way of Suprnova

  63. Spreading the FreeBSD 8.0 love

  64. Firefox 3.6 makes tabs slighty more useful

  65. Messing with light at night

  66. Late November night ruminations

  67. Messing with light at night

  68. Torrenting, downloading FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

  69. Redirecting UniSA email is such a relief!

  70. PageRank, fast sites, net neutrality?

  71. Horizontal remote controls anyone?

  72. CNET advertisement positioning #fail

  73. Bill Maher on the sole profit motive

  74. Dave Winer on Hollywood blogger stereotypes

  75. Motorola Milestone is tempting

  76. CNET reports Mickey Mouse behaving badly

  77. #Anime Fun Fact #01

  78. Please consider the environment before printing

  79. Why I like #Anime #1: Arty Ziff

  80. A Kenyan Standard poll thingy

  81. The 2009 New Humanist Bad Faith awards

  82. Links for 2009-11-21

  83. Wait, FriendFeed still exists?

  84. Big game Simpson fever

  85. LilyTerm is my favourite terminal emulator!

  86. Facebook’s reputation erosion?

  87. Rubenerd Fun Fact #90

  88. Dell down, Microsoft makes hardware move

  89. Fedora 12 installed and go!

  90. Links for 2009-11-19

  91. Internet Explorer 9 goals?

  92. Rundle Mall, Adelaide

  93. Links for 2009-11-18

  94. UniSA Virus Uh Oh

  95. People getting dressed up… for exams?

  96. UniSA virus #fail

  97. Cute Kallen cupcake background

  98. #Anime Kallen Stadtfeld‎ has a cute cupcake

  99. Sending wishes and thoughts to Paul Allen

  100. Oversensitivity in computer games?

  101. South Aussie tertiary education going Microsoft

  102. In the market for a new Logitech mouse

  103. Updated 2009 theme, the crowd gasps!

  104. Fedora 12 Beta

  105. Burning coal a bit different from breathing!

  106. What a bit of DC-8 paint can do!

  107. Fedora 12 beta’s bundling of Mono

  108. Retro business jet retroness

  109. Afternoon Boatdeck Cafe conversations

  110. North Terrace in Adelaide

  111. Mummy, melodrama, Penn and Teller Bullshit

  112. Friday night shell adventure

  113. Links for 2009-11-13

  114. Why I’m studying in Adelaide, stop bugging me!

  115. Safari 4.0.4 is slick, but…

  116. Fedora screenshot #fail

  117. Rubenerd Fun Fact #89

  118. Fedora 11 is almost awesome

  119. Links for 2009-11-12

  120. Lest we forget

  121. League tables will come to Australia

  122. 11th November: Lest We Forget

  123. ThinkPad X40 secondary IDE #fail

  124. Esoteric spam that serves no purpose

  125. Ted Kennedy and the heathcare bill

  126. #Anime K-On! 06: School Festival!

  127. Tetravex for 2009-11-09

  128. Could the OpenOfficeMouse be chorded?

  129. Fitting all of Brunei into a museum!

  130. Android’s built in excuse?

  131. Sudoku for 2009-11-07

  132. Tetravex for 2009-11-07

  133. New eBay ad doesn’t account for DRM

  134. Rubenerd Fun Fact #88

  135. VPN connections faster than direct ones?

  136. Jiggly… puff!

  137. Optus bill payment disconnect fail

  138. Sudoku for 2009-11-05

  139. Tetravex for 2009-11-05

  140. Another home made bread loaf attempt

  141. Poems from the Road

  142. #Anime Akiyama Mio and her house

  143. #Anime K-On! 05: Supervisor!

  144. Peace hasn’t been given a chance, 40 years on

  145. Unmount discs without ejecting on Macs

  146. My second bread baking attempt

  147. Zuckerberg pokes fun at his users!

  148. Kaspersky’s FreeBSD anti virus! What?

  149. Sudoku for 2009-11-03

  150. Tetravex for 2009-11-03

  151. 24 hour Singapore shops and businesses

  152. Worrying out loud about JavaScript

  153. #Anime Puhi~ Puhi~!

  154. We should get ebook versions for free!

  155. Sudoku for 2009-11-02

  156. Tetravex for 2009-11-02

  157. A Keith Olbermann Bobblehead!

  158. TextMate defaulting to the root directory

  159. My little loaf of bread

  160. Who’s Line Is It Anyway? Hats game

  161. Keith Olbermann’s Countdown as a podcast

  162. Donating to non confrontational folks!

  163. Sudoku for 2009-10-31

  164. Tetravex for 2009-10-31

  165. Tiny home baked bread!

  166. Jam on said homemade bread

  167. Rubenerd Fun Fact #87

  168. Will Twitter Lists replace TweetDeck Groups?

  169. Our generation talking to parents

  170. Train Simulator at 1am

  171. FreeBSD in new VMware Fusion 3

  172. New VMware Fusion 3

  173. FreeBSD in VMware Fusion 3.0 is amazing!

  174. Sudoku for 2009-10-29

  175. Tetravex for 2009-10-29

  176. Freshly toasted VMware Fusion 3 goodness

  177. Different songs with same name #1

  178. The word sneeze has three e’s in it

  179. Facebook made changes? No, really?

  180. 2222 posts, and goodbye to GeoCities

  181. Coffee from this morning

  182. Running Windows on ATMs

  183. Links for 2009-10-26

  184. Sudoku for 2009-10-26

  185. Tetravex for 2009-10-26

  186. Logo nerd talks about ANZ Bank’s new one

  187. Another theory on why Titanic sank?

  188. Wearing a hat

  189. Generalising about Gen Y generalisations!

  190. Gordon Haff on why tech takes time

  191. A Twitter picture is worth…

  192. The Greens aren’t as… Green any more

  193. Links for 2009-10-24

  194. Pointless hayfever rambling to feel better

  195. Sudoku for 2009-10-24

  196. Tetravex for 2009-10-24

  197. Internode has launched a blog thingy

  198. Style guidelines are sneaky and difficult

  199. Singapore Post’s postcode finder

  200. Sudoku for 2009-10-23

  201. Writing code that ends cleanly without breaks

  202. Sophisticated Windows 3.0 sound!

  203. #Anime Haruhi Dango Dango Dango

  204. Sudoku for 2009-10-22

  205. Tetravex for 2009-10-22

  206. Jim Kloss on The Whole Wheat Radios

  207. Thoughts on the .net Firefox plugin saga

  208. Sudoku for 2009-10-21

  209. Tetravex for 2009-10-21

  210. Tips on how to reduce stress by Krizia

  211. Got a copy of Microsoft Dinosaurs from 1993!

  212. DOS nostaligia post with links and no point

  213. The birth of a Sidekicking verb?

  214. Tetravex for 2009-10-20

  215. Lucy in the park with flowers

  216. Cap’n, we’re under attack by Twitter bots!

  217. Tweets from Long Zheng in Melbourne

  218. Sudoku for 2009-10-19

  219. This car is Epic As

  220. StarCraft, South Korea and Wikipedia

  221. Terrible food puns and nature photos

  222. Sudoku for 2009-10-18

  223. A crappy cigarette smoking excuse

  224. MPAA attempts to rebrand themselves

  225. Rubenerd Fun Fact #86

  226. Uh oh, I broke The Bit.ly

  227. Trying out SmugMug

  228. Sudoku for 2009-10-17

  229. AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR

  230. On Java inner classes and whatnot

  231. #Anime Bakemonogatari’s wild success!

  232. Yerevan’s spiffy new Zvartnots Airport

  233. Anime Festival Asia 2009 announced

  234. Half hour units and WordPress whatnot

  235. Why must external drives behave this way?

  236. BREAKING NEWS: Something has happened

  237. Null Java data members versus methods

  238. A particularly ironic error message

  239. Links for 2009-10-12

  240. iPhoneUserNews and dull comment trolls

  241. Revised Aussie coal lobbyist video

  242. Sudoku for 2009-10-12

  243. #Anime Bakemonogatari 12

  244. Another paid post email thing

  245. Sudoku for 2009-10-11

  246. Back at KLIA at night again, virtually

  247. Things that have annoyed Monnie this week

  248. #Anime What are they looking at?

  249. How NASA can crash lunar spacecraft

  250. The Sun Oracle Database Machine

  251. Ima let you finish this Kanye K-on avatar post

  252. Sudoku for 2009-10-09

  253. Busyness, saying no and whatnot

  254. Flickr Pro accounts expire like grilled cheese

  255. Cute if stereotypical French smilie

  256. US healthcare reform view from an outsider

  257. Sudoku for 2009-10-08

  258. Alas, XTreeGold and DOSBox don’t tango

  259. Sudoku for 2009-10-07

  260. Rubenerd Fun Fact #85

  261. My first Everyday Rewards junk mail

  262. Quicken and Agenda: DOSBox to the rescue!

  263. Sudoku for 2009-10-06

  264. Links for 2009-10-05

  265. Multiple online identities are too tiring

  266. Java and JavaScript service announcement

  267. Sudoku for 2009-10-04

  268. Sudoku for 2009-10-03

  269. Christopher Hitchens on QandA in Australia

  270. Changing boot order in VMware Fusion

  271. Sudoku for 2009-10-02

  272. Basic Java linked list queue implementation

  273. That reminds me, better wake up Green Day

  274. Sudoku for 2009-10-01

  275. Welcome Google Reader readers!

  276. #Anime Bakemonogatari 11, finally!

  277. Newsmax isn’t doctor’s journal or The Onion

  278. TNG planet graphics

  279. Java telling us The Tale of Alan A’Dale

  280. Sudoku for 2009-09-30

  281. Rodrigo Haenggi’s cool new blog

  282. Rubenerd Fun Fact #84

  283. First set of mid-semester break park photos

  284. iPity The Fool who named iSnack 2.0

  285. Deleting, starting my Facebook profile again

  286. Sudoku for 2009-09-29

  287. Internode reactivated within a few hours!

  288. Sudoku for 2009-09-28

  289. I don’t need no stinkin FormSpring

  290. The new MacBook Pro inverter worked!

  291. Sudoku for 2009-09-27

  292. Twitter is Google Reader with editors

  293. Sudoku for 2009-09-26

  294. Telstra, Optus, Internode killed my study break!

  295. Work struggle between SQLite over MySQL

  296. Sudoku for 2009-09-25

  297. Sudoku for 2009-09-24

  298. Tetravex for 2009-09-24

  299. Sudoku for 2009-09-23

  300. Sudoku for 2009-09-22

  301. Home internet down, no new posts

  302. Links for 2009-09-21

  303. Sudoku for 2009-09-21

  304. Windows 7 not faster than XP after all

  305. Rubenerd Fun Fact #83

  306. $58 billion on roads, $1.5 on public transport!

  307. #Anime Saki 03 – Tairitsu

  308. My sudoku puzzles page is go!

  309. Don’t use JavaScript to compose pages

  310. Sudoku for 2009-09-20

  311. Programming language work and nostalgia

  312. Links for 2009-09-19

  313. Single Dock Stack icon for all your drives

  314. #Anime New Senjougharaness background!

  315. It’s a post about life and whatnot

  316. MonnieCakes!

  317. Exception and Throwable Java classes

  318. This Mac doesn’t like him? Ack, Johnson!

  319. Jean Luc Picard on Data’s name

  320. Rubenerd Fun Fact #82 Spanish homes

  321. #Anime Bakemonogatari 10

  322. Alternatives to Firefox?

  323. New MyUniSA home page launch

  324. Programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas

  325. My Adelaide Fringe poster design

  326. Not so pleasent World Vision encounter

  327. 2009.09.15 SegPub outage

  328. Firefox 3.0.14 and 3.5.3 announced

  329. Thinking out loud about internet conversations

  330. Launch of Rubenérd Incorporated

  331. #Anime Saki 02 – Shōbu

  332. A philosophical shower quandary

  333. The Cliq beating Apple

  334. Eat Britain!

  335. Yellow Envelope junk mail

  336. Basic Java linked list stack implementation

  337. Rearranging Gnome titlebar buttons

  338. Links for 2009-09-12

  339. Lousy networks more effective than filters!

  340. An iTelephone app advertising fail

  341. Sudoku for 2009-09-12

  342. Reminding myself I’m alive at least!

  343. Links for 2009-09-10

  344. HP LaserJet Error -9672 on Snow Leopard

  345. #Anime Saki 01 and mahjong nostalgia!

  346. Farewell to The Overnightscape

  347. Mark Parnell on Marine Policy 101

  348. BASIC on the iPhone Commodore 64

  349. Lesson 9 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  350. #Anime Bakemonogatari 09

  351. Samoa now has left drivers

  352. Rubenerd Fun Fact #81

  353. Multiple Java classes in one file

  354. Links for 2009-09-07

  355. Prohibition works! Wait, what?

  356. Theory behind linked lists

  357. On this day, 06th of September

  358. Logos and Java classes for Java classes

  359. Doubts over my Cult of the Mac membership

  360. Why are lobbyists tolerated at all?

  361. Shot inverter in the MacBook Pro

  362. #Anime Know your Akiyama Mio moods II

  363. No backlight on Snow Leopard MacBook Pro

  364. Okay Woolies, you win!

  365. I’m in love with Snow Leopard’s new Menlo font

  366. Friendly Mawson Lakes ducks

  367. Sleep problem diagram #Fail

  368. Huge evening rainbow in Mawson Lakes

  369. Music sales down, don’t blame us!

  370. Fatboy Slim on the Rubenerd Blog

  371. Wikipedia’s new spiffy beta UI

  372. Esther Golton’s new Aurora Borealis album

  373. PC DOS 7 on a ThinkPad X40?

  374. Rubenerd Fun Fact #80

  375. #Anime K-On! 04

  376. 2009 Wordle for 2009

  377. Dick Cheney schadenfreude

  378. Javanese earthquake, #7NewsFail #9NewsFail

  379. Whole Wheat Radio on Snow Leopard

  380. Radio UserLand and the scary cloud

  381. #Anime Bakemonogatari 08

  382. Good encrypted disk images on Mac OS X

  383. Twitter councelling at 2am

  384. WordPress summaries on some posts

  385. Brightkite: Near Ingle Farm

  386. Brightkite: Adelaide Railway Station

  387. Brightkite: Adelaide Airport (2009-08-31)

  388. 2000 posts and a TweetDeck desktop!

  389. #Anime K-On! 03

  390. Sharing your favourite restaurants online

  391. Rubenerd Fun Fact #79

  392. Interesting Gnome sorting

  393. #Anime K-On! 02

  394. Live trial of the Great Firewall of Australia

  395. Firefox 3.5 still unstable in Snow Leopard

  396. Nostalgia for the 1990s

  397. Getting ready for Snow Leopard

  398. Links for 2009-08-29

  399. My Snow Leopard software compatibility list

  400. Font smoothing in Snow Leopard

  401. First impression of Snow Leopard: is gut!

  402. Brightkite: Adelaide Airport (2009-08-27)

  403. Brightkite: Mawson Lakes Railway Station

  404. Links for 2009-08-27

  405. #Anime Otakus beating economic downturn?

  406. Using RandomAccessFile objects in Java

  407. Mawson Lakes internet since Tuesday

  408. Rubenerd Blog reached then 1980s!

  409. Brightkite: Currie St

  410. Rental inspection went swimmingly

  411. #Anime Know your Akiyama Mio moods

  412. #Anime Bakemonogatari 07

  413. Links for 2009-08-26

  414. I won’t be advertising on Twitter

  415. Brightkite: Mawson Central

  416. An arm, a leg and a Drobo

  417. The Simpsons on feeding goats

  418. Dissecting USA Today article about Twitter

  419. Sarah Palin damaged McCain’s campaign

  420. Links for 2009-08-25

  421. Repeated SegPub downtime over last few days

  422. Simpsons Budweiser frogs

  423. Third culture kids and high school ramble

  424. Just ordered Snow Leopard

  425. A wild weather umbrella safety warning

  426. I heart Gnome’s international panel clock

  427. My blog reached the 1960s! Peace Out!

  428. Cyclists don’t cause most accidents!

  429. Worrying out loud about iMovie HD 06

  430. #Anime K-On! 01

  431. White dialog, toasted, dry, nothing on it

  432. Message in a Bottle #SongsInCode

  433. Words of wisdom from my sister

  434. Final review of ThinkPad X40 awesomeness

  435. Joe is back at the Boatdeck

  436. #Anime Bakemonogatari 06

  437. Links for 2009-08-21

  438. Google Reader should update feed addresses

  439. #SongsInCode

  440. Got me a set of TrackPoint replacement caps

  441. Theming Gnome with purple is okay right?

  442. The Emma Maersk is the real Big Blue!

  443. Mac and FreeBSD guy trying Debian

  444. This is a title for a TweetDeck outage post

  445. Rubenerd Fun Fact #78

  446. How to fail at girls, featuring Zombie Plan

  447. BankSA Crime Stopper advertising

  448. Links for 2009-08-19

  449. Poetry while you wait

  450. #Anime Bakemonogatari 05

  451. No Costco in Adelaide any time soon

  452. Three million Wikipedia articles!

  453. Links for 2009-08-18

  454. Initial ThinkPad X40 review, is gut!

  455. OpenSolaris doesn’t like 512MiB of memory

  456. iTunes running for 80:16:19:22

  457. Downloading, downgrading to Firefox 3.0.13

  458. Telstra doesn’t like Mawson footpaths

  459. Links for 2009-08-17

  460. Craptastic versus good quality second hand?

  461. Twitter is a place of great [t]wit!

  462. Getting a copy of Windows 7 Home Basic

  463. Eerie afternoon in Mawson Lakes photos

  464. Tokiha Mai mocking my messy room

  465. Some fun Friday evening philosophy

  466. #Anime Akiyama Mio’s Ducati

  467. Does Crucial.com mess up your iPhone 3G?

  468. Grabbing an IBM Thinkpad X40!

  469. Whoops, Oracle does auto not null primary keys

  470. #Anime Akiyama Mio just a moeblob… so?

  471. Choosing a Java IDE

  472. Links for 2009-08-14

  473. Help Justice, Defeat Tyranny in Burma

  474. Links for 2009-08-13

  475. Surfin Bird over Aussie brekkie TV

  476. Phew, NoScript now blocks HTML5 media

  477. Custom Java exceptions

  478. Rubenerd Fun Fact #77: Shane Rogers

  479. #Anime Bakemonogatari 04

  480. Westpac’s bold new advertising campaign

  481. Australian Central Credit Union, PermitCookies

  482. Singapore doesn’t get much cartographic luck

  483. #Anime Know your Senjougahara Hitagi moods II

  484. Facebook buying Friendfeed, off to Tumblr

  485. The Mauretania in 1906 and whatnot

  486. Java multiple interface ambiguity

  487. On Tim Berners-Lee and URI hacks

  488. urlTea now tr.im, this stuff is scary

  489. Uh oh, I killed The Google Readers

  490. When NOT to use Java’s array.length method!

  491. My pledge in response to Experts-Exchange

  492. #Anime Quick question for Yoko

  493. Links for 2009-08-09

  494. VMware Fusion Fail

  495. I didn’t follow my 1900th post’s advice

  496. Could someone tell me what ASEAN is for?

  497. Coffee shops starting to ban laptops?

  498. Last.fm Free is Free group back again

  499. Do not be afraid of tablet computers!

  500. Windows 7 wants to search me

  501. #Anime Know your Senjougahara Hitagi moods

  502. Rubenerd Fun Fact #76

  503. Moving on from DBS and POSB in Singapore

  504. The 2009.06.08 #TwitterFail

  505. #Anime Bakemonogatari 03

  506. Internet Explorer 6 Must Die Twibbon

  507. Celebrating 1,888 posts!

  508. Is it a final goodbye for urlTea?

  509. What kind of Twitter user are you?

  510. Java ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

  511. UniSA doesn’t like Permit Cookies alas

  512. MacBook Pro trackpad on OpenSolaris

  513. Richard Dawkins, Memes, #ProductNose

  514. #Anime Bakemonogatari 02

  515. Reconsidered International Relations lately?

  516. ZombiePlan made me into a card

  517. Followup to my nuclear deterrence fail post

  518. Kyle is a steaming pile of fail

  519. #Anime Bakemonogatari 01

  520. Last.fm Free Is Free group shuts its doors

  521. Riders Cafe scones and whatnot

  522. iTelephone 3.0.1

  523. New BriefingsDirect design looks familiar

  524. Links for 2009-08-02

  525. #Anime Senjougahara Hitagi is purple

  526. #Anime for August: Bakemonogatari

  527. 18,000 tweets and all that

  528. The Crazy Limb Dance of Bel-Air

  529. iPhoneUserNews is a breath of fresh air

  530. How I blog too much

  531. OpenSolaris, MacBook Pro, partition order

  532. Dual-booting OpenSolaris on a MacBook Pro

  533. Windows 7 with 2000 explorer.exe?

  534. Optus phone reconnection adventures

  535. Getting around a Windows ban

  536. Uh oh, I killed The Wikipedias

  537. #Anime crossovers and Yui as Haruhi

  538. Microhoo won’t undercut Google, for now

  539. New photos: water drop and green carpet

  540. Microhoo: a formidable partnership!

  541. Zombie Plan writes cryptic crosswords

  542. Why nuclear deterrence doesn’t work

  543. Chatting with Dana Gardner on Twitter

  544. Show 274: The footy buckling spring keyboard episode

  545. There’s nothing wrong with online privacy

  546. I Mad Men’d myself!

  547. Links for 2009-07-29

  548. iTunes Show problems

  549. Buying time when buying books

  550. Rubenerd Fun Fact #75: Peanut butter

  551. Mac keycaps for Unicomp keyboards

  552. GM Holden advertising mediocrity

  553. Simpsons Treehouse of Horror #19

  554. A desktop background uh oh

  555. I love Letterman’s tie

  556. Show 273: The incompetent internets episode

  557. New Rubenerd.com theme merging whatnot

  558. Them Aussie states aren’t needed

  559. Grilled cheese object reference diagrams

  560. Traffic jams in the 1950s didn’t tell us?

  561. #Anime New Samsung Akiyama Mio desktop

  562. Another spiffy new MacBook Pro battery

  563. Best. AT&T Logo. Ever.

  564. #Anime Restarting my deleted blog here

  565. Relationship between Twitter and blogs

  566. Taking Paul Thurrott to task on the Zune HD

  567. Stability problems with Firefox 3.5.1

  568. On a Little Street in Singapore

  569. Brightkite: Millenia Walk - Paulaner Brauhaus

  570. There’s no such word as movies!

  571. Piracy isn’t stealing, its copyright infringement

  572. eBay thinks I’m a women who drinks coffee

  573. Eating Norwegian sandwiches in KL

  574. Brightkite: Near Race Course Village

  575. #crocs4ever? They’re made of plastic!

  576. Screw Hummers, I want a Sisu Pasi

  577. Womanwithbite has been Twitter blocked

  578. Brightkite: Tuas Checkpoint

  579. Brightkite: Harbourfront MRT Station

  580. Well that’s good to know!

  581. For real, my last atheism post

  582. Links for 2009-07-14

  583. Seperate templates for WordPress categories

  584. My dad’s RainerSchade.com site has gone live

  585. Checking if tweets are under 140 characters

  586. More Commodore 16 Unicomp keyboard comparions

  587. Rubenerd.com is now JavaScript free! I think

  588. Sue Heins from Inspring Women on Twitter!

  589. Brightkite: Orchard Road

  590. MacBook Pro ExpressCard slot debacle?

  591. Links for 2009-07-12

  592. Links for 2009-07-11

  593. VLC media player reaching version 1.0

  594. Comparing my Unicomp to my Commodore 16

  595. Why do they need 2 weeks to unsubscribe me?

  596. Brightkite: Singapore Changi Airport

  597. I almost got my Unicomp SpaceSaver! Blast!

  598. Links for 2009-07-09

  599. I love my new Unicomp buckling spring keyboard!

  600. Brightkite: Paragon Shopping Centre

  601. Links for 2009-07-08

  602. Google Chrome OS… goodbye X11?

  603. Getting priorities right with WordPress 2.9

  604. Rubenerd Fun Fact #74: Bill Maher

  605. TACO, Master Password Timeout for Firefox

  606. Mike Rann tells me it’s cold in Adelaide

  607. Brightkite: Wheelock Place

  608. No carrier error for SingTel EVDO

  609. Links for 2009-07-04

  610. Brightkite: Laurent Bernard Chocolatier

  611. Brightkite: PastaMania (Cineleisure)

  612. Religious offence is a one-way street!

  613. Device failed to calibrate laser… wait what?

  614. Importance of mentors to young people

  615. Singapore from my bedroom window

  616. Affordable MacBook Air, Green Hummers

  617. Tab Mix Plus not working well in Firefox 3.5

  618. Gmail’s awful new label system

  619. On Qantas and the 787 Dreamliner

  620. Kudos to Unicomp

  621. Happy Canada Day!

  622. Just ordered a Unicomp SpaceSaver keyboard

  623. Songs with B words in them

  624. Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is out

  625. Twitter needs personalised filtering

  626. The HP 12C as the greatest iPhone app ever!

  627. Not blogging about not blogging

  628. Brightkite: Millenia Walk

  629. Brightkite: Tanglin Mall

  630. Saturday night foodstuff philosophy

  631. Removing Categories from WordPress URIs

  632. Links for 2009-06-27

  633. Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Hilde Rens

  634. Desired features for Twitter and whatnot

  635. Rubenerd Fun Fact #73

  636. Don’t fix Outlook, ditch HTML email!

  637. Landscape iTelephone keyboard everywhere!

  638. Links for 2009-06-25

  639. Jerry Novak’s new Lensbaby Composer

  640. Links for 2009-06-24

  641. Adding my Twitter account to WeFollow

  642. Bill to allow same sex marriage in Australia

  643. Followup iTelephone Optus unlocking post

  644. Using my unlocked iTelephone in Singapore

  645. Links for 2009-06-23

  646. Unicomp and CVT keyboards

  647. Links for 2009-06-22

  648. On effective blog taglines

  649. IBM Model M and Northgate Omnikey keyboards

  650. 64bit FreeBSD Commander Keen

  651. Rubenerd Fun Fact #72

  652. Think about the content, not the medium!

  653. Using Qmax as your free Wireless@SG carrier

  654. Israeli army not doing itself any moral favours

  655. Microsoft is really running out of ideas

  656. Singapore’s Wireless@SG extended to 2013

  657. @WomanwithBite versus @Rubenerd and co!

  658. Back in Singapore… again

  659. Links for 2009-06-15

  660. #IranElection #CNNFail @Change_for_Iran

  661. Swag from the Singapore PC Expo 2009

  662. Tehran’s equivalent Tiananmen photo?

  663. To that crying baby on the plane…

  664. Links for 2009-06-13

  665. Show 272: The succinct intelligence episode

  666. On online mail, email and mail online

  667. Silly iPhone photos from Mawson Lakes

  668. Murphy’s Law, travelling and whatnot

  669. Links for 2009-06-12

  670. Using Gnome icons in the Xfce desktop

  671. Red tape and Australian passports

  672. Red tape and Australian passports, part two

  673. The Midnight Commander… editor?

  674. Links for 2009-06-10

  675. Officially the greatest video of all time!

  676. Brief comments about new MacBooks

  677. Show 271: The half-arsed half episode

  678. GTK+ failing to build, Xcode 3.0 is the culprit

  679. Excluding WordPress categories

  680. An insightful, honest Twitter message

  681. Review of Nitrogen background setter and previewer

  682. A very merry Queen’s Birthday to you!

  683. Rediscovering the wonders of fabric softener

  684. A drizzly parking lot

  685. Openbox FreeBSD netbook software whatnot

  686. GRC newsgroup discusson on Leo Laporte

  687. Trippy Slashdot feedback picture whatsit

  688. Stop the Settlements petition

  689. Happy birthday wishes for Tetris!

  690. Half an hour with a D60 and a backyard

  691. Servage and I are officially no more!

  692. On Steve Jobs, Tony Snow and health

  693. The leadership skills of W Bush. Wait, what?

  694. Xfce 4.6.1’s I18n and bug fix improvements

  695. Unintended spam obfuscation poetry

  696. Adelaide culture shock: No 7-Elevens!

  697. A week off blogging looks like this

  698. Even the uni is talking about swine flu now

  699. Fun testing my NIKKOR 55-200mm in low light

  700. GRC’s SpinRite can’t be licenced for students

  701. Happy 1st of June, bandwidth quota reset

  702. Bing ain’t a Wolfram Alpha, Google, Yahoo

  703. Photos around the Mawson shunting yard

  704. The first Michael Franks Libre.fm fan!

  705. Australian political party quiz results, sustainable economics

  706. See you on the 1st of June

  707. Whoops, Rubenerd.com 89% over transfer limit!

  708. I moved from Last.fm to Libre.fm

  709. Creating your own Whole Wheat Radio shows

  710. CBS Last.fm selling out to the RIAA?

  711. The Jimbo and Ned Show

  712. Some Mac software link clouds

  713. The real problem with PHP

  714. Broken Mac The Sims 2 equals bummer

  715. Yahoo obfuscates search results now too

  716. Testing pkgsrc on my MacBook Pro

  717. Last.fm and the biggest text file of all time

  718. Don’t think ambidextrousness is a word

  719. WordPress category URI conundrum

  720. Copy if you think the Bird is the Word

  721. Sharing some pictures from DeviantArt

  722. If you’ve never tried Midnight Commander…

  723. Moving on from atheism, humanism commentary

  724. CNET News.com comments are getting old

  725. Show 270: The Twitter client episode

  726. Pro life, pro family and other misnomers

  727. Testing Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

  728. Homer Simpson and the FBI

  729. Great parenting philosophy quote

  730. Microsoft’s most epic fail of all time, researching Cibai!

  731. This site is dedicated to Debra Schade

  732. Creating clouds of links instead of long lists

  733. Web aggregators: the chocolate shop problem

  734. Disjointed geographic observations on Wolfram Alpha

  735. Congrats to Gerard van Essen from FreeBSDNews.net

  736. Don’t write blog posts at 01:30am

  737. Sony Pictures CEO: nothing good came from Internet

  738. Cold Country live on Whole Wheat Radio was fantastic!

  739. Show 269: The introverted locomotive episode

  740. Pouring coffee on a laptop wasn’t a good idea

  741. Ghostery Mozilla Firefox extension review

  742. Don’t look now, it’s a useless 1666 post!

  743. Ten more Rubenerd Fun Facts!

  744. My final verdict on Clipmarks

  745. Frustratingly vague review of David Francey

  746. Credit card fraud on rise, IT security thoughts

  747. A productive Wheaty afternoon

  748. US rejoins the UN Human Rights Forum

  749. Netscape reference in FreeBSD

  750. My Intel Inside Xeon stickers arrived

  751. An open letter to tech journalists

  752. New Windows 7 logo, packaging leaked

  753. D60 photos of overcast Mawson Lakes

  754. Well there goes my respect for credit unions

  755. AdelaideNow newspaper comments

  756. Rukia can’t hear you over her bread rolls

  757. My updated list of useful Firefox Extensions

  758. My answers to Zomblie Plan’s quiz post

  759. FreeBSD 7.2 has been released

  760. Reader comment: Google Chrome TV Ads

  761. Reader comment: Being good without God

  762. PC DOS 2000 boots on an Armada M300!

  763. Social engineering email attacks are scary

  764. John Statz on Whole Wheat Radio

  765. RSS, Show, Anime, Thoughts, WWR

  766. A cat followed us home in the night

  767. SG$700 for a Kindle? Thanks but no thanks

  768. Karen Collins shooting Jim on Whole Wheat Radio

  769. SimpleTags for WordPress

  770. Herrie only plays Hi-Fi Whole Wheat Radio

  771. Quiz says I have a Northeast American accent

  772. A philosophical revelation: I’m a humanist

  773. Should blog posts be treated as time capsules?

  774. Twittering with South Australian Premier Mike Rann!

  775. Using Herrie to listen to Whole Wheat Radio

  776. Why do spammers spam?

  777. Expected to find the Rubenerd Forum?

  778. Driver’s cab on a German DB Class 411 HST

  779. Free Software versus Open Source

  780. BBC News says Asia needs to stop export addiction

  781. It’s FreeBSD’s documentation, stupid

  782. LivingSocial list: Things that terrify me!

  783. Happy May, again!

  784. Lesson eight in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  785. An Adelaide public transport ramble

  786. Sweden allows same-sex marriage!

  787. Cheap online source for software spam

  788. Show 268: The flustered rent and webhost episode

  789. New Show stuff… almost worked!

  790. LivingSocial list: Favourite heathen tomes!

  791. Obama White House Flickr photos

  792. Tee hee, 1337

  793. When I blog late at night…

  794. Twitter’s low retention rate

  795. Technorati claim thingy

  796. The optical and magnetic media tag race

  797. Swine flu spam already?

  798. The Schade Family Internet Grid!

  799. MacBook Pro wishing out loud and whatnot

  800. My belated review of VirtualBox for Mac

  801. Beautiful seaside Adelaide tram photos

  802. Yes, I am an advertisement free blog! I think…

  803. On Sparx, grilled cheese sandwiches and jaffles

  804. My Future Self ‘n Me

  805. AFL coach comparing lost game to Anzacs?

  806. Installing Linux for the first time

  807. Rescuing Wikipedia from some of its editors

  808. Reading and writing Windows drives on Mac

  809. Aussie banks taking advantage of consumers?

  810. Aux Champs-Elysées? Oui!

  811. Photo of much awaited Adelaide rain

  812. The end of an era: no more GeoCities

  813. Using Flickr for screenshots

  814. Advertising on Rubenerd.com?

  815. Mark Parnell on Ian Plimer’s climate change challenge

  816. Enabling CD-ROMs in DOS with generic drivers

  817. Harold Nolte’s DOS nostaliga quiz!

  818. My belated review of Q.app

  819. Scatterbrain thoughts on the Sun Oracle deal

  820. Dave Winer on money versus happiness

  821. Om Malik on Facebook’s identity crisis

  822. South Australia: The Unpretentious State?

  823. Elephant on a trampoline

  824. On sneezing and webhost downtime

  825. A tall Michael Franks on a reduced Last.fm

  826. Sad month for gay rights in South Australia

  827. Restoring posts since February finally done!

  828. Online monetisation is a misnomer at best

  829. They have Google in English now?

  830. Turning off Post Revisions in WordPress

  831. I’m back at Rubenerd.com, just like 2004!

  832. Hello world!

  833. Looking back at virtual machines on Macs

  834. Super easy Windows 98 auto-patch archive

  835. WordPress post ID 4000 celebration

  836. The Springfield Connection

  837. Some LivingSocial updates

  838. Easter eating… does a book I’m reading count?

  839. Four Mark Twain quotes are more than three

  840. It started as a Centrelink Windows 7 critique

  841. My top five favourite British TV shows, part two

  842. PKR wins Bukit Selambau by-election

  843. My top five favourite British comedies

  844. Review of Living Social top five lists

  845. BetterPriavacy 1.25 broken in Firefox 3.0.8?

  846. Restoring files with MacVim, Vim

  847. Clipmark: Some of my favourite Slashdot sigs

  848. Followup to my MacVim review last year

  849. Review of AirMe for iPhone and iPod Touch

  850. Clipmark: Joe the Plumber a political William Hung?

  851. Giving credit where its due to Internode

  852. Reading Google Reader in the dark on Linux, BSD

  853. Lesson 7 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  854. Another reason for not liking music downloading

  855. Public service annoucement from The Simpsons

  856. Clipmark: Barack Obama on tax havens

  857. Adelaide hot cross buns and local fruit

  858. My life is finally back on track people!

  859. WordPress WXR/RSS problems solved!

  860. Clipmark: China spying on Aussie PM’s emails

  861. I don’t think Holden’s troubles are surprising

  862. I just finished installing Movable Type 4!

  863. Becoming a fan of Malcolm Turnbull on Facebook

  864. Internet Explorer 8.1 to support Firefox plugins

  865. Whole Wheat Radio to become a commercial site

  866. Trying again with WordPress WXR exporting

  867. Missing Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

  868. Clipmark: Greens call for China spy alert in Australia

  869. Clipmark: Last.fm’s now ironic About page

  870. Followup thougths on the Last.fm debacle

  871. I heart Lois Griffin and her ways

  872. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised about Last.fm

  873. Even Google now has an Earth Hour page

  874. Earth Hour 2009 in Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, South Australia, Earth

  875. My 23rd birthday photos from Hahndorf

  876. A Sinclair ZX Spectrum for The Sims 2!

  877. Yucky obfuscated Google search result links

  878. Shampoo J-Walk eggplant songs

  879. Lesson 6 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  880. My passport says I’m an Aussie!

  881. Another quick Simple Spam filter update

  882. The day Singapore internet radio died

  883. Kevin Rudd meets Barack Obama, Adelaide Advertiser

  884. Was ALMOST ready to overuse Clipmarks!

  885. Clipmark: Slashdot Aussie censorship comment

  886. On Adelaide Hummers and Piaggios

  887. Linking to registration pages on Twitter

  888. Is Facebook trying to rip off my beloved Twitter?

  889. Clipmark: Senator Conroy on Twitter

  890. Playing around with Clipmarks

  891. Clipmarks test post with a photo

  892. New Clipmarks account test post

  893. Pointless post 1234 milestone celebration

  894. Night thoughts about WXR, PHP, MySQL…

  895. Freak snow storm chart from CalgaryGuru

  896. Reattributing authors in WordPress

  897. J-Walk’s sinister plan to harvest personal information

  898. WordPress eXtended export fun, 2007-09

  899. Review of the new Xfce 4.6 desktop

  900. Ten fresh Rubenerd fun facts!

  901. The Aukštaitija National Park in Lithuania

  902. Businesses that are too big to fail

  903. Cute uninteded political commentary in my CSS

  904. Blatently fabricated Boston Legal quote

  905. A Sunday Boatdeck Cafe Mugaccino post

  906. Pointless observation regarding palindromic numbers

  907. Changing folders in the Terminal on Mac OS X

  908. Show 267: The back in Adelaide reminiscing episode

  909. Excited about the AF-S NIKKOR DX 35mm f/1.8G

  910. Show site down

  911. Jesse the JavaScript Worm

  912. Rush Limbaugh and Michael J. Fox

  913. Quick lessons for NoScript and Firefox

  914. It takes 10 steps to download StuffIt Expander

  915. Come again?

  916. Scary tornado warnings in South Australia

  917. Can Simoleons be exchanged on the forex market?

  918. It started as a post comparing Reader and Bloglines

  919. Is it RIP for Singapore internet radio? Probably

  920. Homer Simpson on Wings

  921. Switching to the TENEX C Shell on Arch Linux

  922. Moving to Linux from FreeBSD on my Armada M300

  923. The Black Suits Comin’

  924. Sunday afternoon post: Using my sister’s MacBook

  925. I have some barred locations on my phone line!

  926. Callie Shell’s moving photo of Obama

  927. Awesome usability Firefox extensions I use

  928. A privacy and potential security Flash scare

  929. Jon Stewart in his finest form ever

  930. I’m not Bill Kurtis and other observations

  931. No Twitter makes me chew office furniture

  932. Trying to think of a catchy, inelastic software title

  933. A juxtaposition of life lessons from television

  934. A fancier Scarlet A from The OUT Campaign

  935. Manichaean paranoia deleted from Wikipedia

  936. Dangerous war relics in the US and Singapore

  937. Optus stole my sanity again

  938. An epic Australia Post fail of state proportions!

  939. Awesome security and privacy Firefox extensions

  940. A brekkie holiday review, with some photos

  941. Opening exported Quicktime images in The Gimp

  942. My joke against Bill O’Reilly saga continues, again

  943. My revised lyrics for Surfin USA

  944. An Optus phone billing adventure

  945. Aussie internet filter dead in the water and whatnot

  946. Abandoned photo of an abandoned building ramble

  947. Followup to my Simple Spam Filter review

  948. On Windows, file systems and shallow directories

  949. What’s the perfect addition to any cheeseboard?

  950. Sam Harris and believing because of evidence

  951. Be careful Ruben, you only have 10 seconds

  952. Please use Sumatra PDF instead of Adobe Reader!

  953. The Delicious bookmarklets are all you need

  954. Facebook’s terms of service change? Yawn.

  955. Narcissistic conspiracy theorists… STFU!

  956. Sitting at an outdoor Starbucks near Orchard Rd

  957. Spread FreeBSD and all that

  958. A scary adventure but with lots of reading

  959. Sites that are still using MD5

  960. Disabling the PC speaker in FreeBSD

  961. I’m Blacked Out for New Zealand

  962. If it ain’t one dang thing it’s another!

  963. This 14th February whatnot sirs and madams

  964. On Jonathan Schwartz, Sun and Barack Obama

  965. Happy 1234567890 everybody!

  966. The single greatest cartoon of all time

  967. Every friggen page is now XHTML 1.0 Strict

  968. An iPhone uh oh message

  969. Spelling it rediculous makes you look it

  970. Shell work at 01:15 in the morning != smart

  971. Stick a fork in him, Bush is done!

  972. GlimmerBlocker: great idea in theory

  973. The world is my coffee today folks!

  974. FrostWire improves upon LimeWire

  975. On oxymorons and sustainable business

  976. Why Microsoft, labels cling to music subscriptions? Greed

  977. The best tool for the job is the one you can use

  978. Mary Wallace on love and happiness

  979. Bummer, tarnation and… and… bummer

  980. Show 265: The Barack Obama and Nikon D60 Part One episode

  981. Redundant Web 2.0 slogans are

  982. My feedback for Security Now 181

  983. Stewie and Brian building a house together

  984. W3C’s XHTML ordered list mistake

  985. Rubenerd Blog XHTML 1.0 Strict-yness

  986. Stephen Fry on Creative Commons

  987. I cite Wikipedia in everything I do!

  988. Initiating SFTP connections with a non standard port

  989. Booting Windows Vista should mean kicking it…

  990. Debian security motivational posers

  991. Awake and ready to go… at 03:30

  992. TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter

  993. Quick guide to burning CDs in FreeBSD

  994. Japan moving

  995. Windows 7 security not worse than Vista

  996. iPhone update 2.2.1

  997. This site may harm your computer! Google error

  998. An unlikely link to the Fedora team in Tunisia

  999. Discovering a miracle cure for hotlinking!

  1000. Putting off customers to attract customers?

  1001. An FTP gotcha on Windows versus Unix

  1002. Turning a Firefox story into an anti-Mac story?

  1003. Independent music and open source software

  1004. A hard hitting and relevent post

  1005. I’d love to meet Python inventor Guido van Rossum

  1006. How does my dad manage this?

  1007. Moving back to Internet Explorer 8?

  1008. Emailing a politician… and getting a response!

  1009. Results for Frome by-election in South Australia

  1010. Gong Xi Fa Cai and Happy Australia Day!

  1011. My compatibility with Whole Wheat Radio is HIGH

  1012. Responses for my Bush Nixon post

  1013. Apple awarded patent for the iPhone interface

  1014. Passing 10,000 Last.fm plays

  1015. A ridiculously pointless 1111 post celebration

  1016. Partially recovering damaged tar files in Mac OS X

  1017. Who are YOU looking at?

  1018. History will judge George W. Bush well. Wait, what?

  1019. Obama is president, we heave a sigh of relief

  1020. A quick sort-of Middle East story of my own

  1021. Welcome back to the world America, we missed you

  1022. Less than four hours before Obama inauguration

  1023. Show 264: The sporadic memories and bottled water episode

  1024. Show 263: The money leeching and random cooking episode

  1025. Blogged.com thinks this blog is about Management?

  1026. Defending my Internet Archive uploading methods

  1027. Uploading Shows to the IA, day 2

  1028. Uploading 260+ shows to the IA, one at a time

  1029. Perhaps 2009 isn’t a complete write off yet

  1030. RubenerdShow.com is no longer being blocked!

  1031. FreeBSD has come a long way on Wikipedia too

  1032. Show 262: The robusta coffee and FireWire drive episode

  1033. Show 261: The changing Singapore and public transport episode

  1034. Official Obama and Bush portraits compared

  1035. Shows are now on Archive.org

  1036. Show 260: The street sweeper webhost perfect storm episode

  1037. I love blog commenting systems again

  1038. Hong Kong Post Office uses SHA1 not MD5

  1039. Optus slapped with a fine for sending spam

  1040. Don’t look now, Ruben can’t sleep again

  1041. I probably won’t be using Chrome on Mac (or BSD)

  1042. Losing Our Language

  1043. The ball is in your court Ourmedia

  1044. How long does it take to reset Twitter passwords?

  1045. The Motown label turned 50 today…

  1046. Wrong Windows installer to install and installer?

  1047. On old computers and ripping CDs

  1048. Bill Moyers on Israel, Gaza and lives

  1049. Protect yourself against MD5 certificates

  1050. A hilarious Windows 7 beta report!

  1051. First of the last single digit days for Dubbya

  1052. A reference reference to a J-Walk reference

  1053. So Apple isn’t giving up trade shows?

  1054. Steve Jobs’ health should not be a public spectacle

  1055. A refreshed Windows disgust rant!

  1056. This could take a while

  1057. The unnessisary excess of multipe ink cartridges

  1058. Peace in Hebrew, Arabic and English

  1059. Voltaire on superfluous blogging and hair styles

  1060. My most hotlinked image, and a reader question

  1061. Ifconfig versus ipconfig versus ifconfig

  1062. FreeBSD 7.1 now available!

  1063. Wolfgang Petry as a Mii character

  1064. Do you own data, or does data own you?

  1065. Comparing the New Brighton Tower and the Lusitania

  1066. German Singapore facts you may or may not know!

  1067. Beautiful Carl Sagan atheism quote picture

  1068. Viewing images from the Terminal in Mac OS X

  1069. A year of blogging condensed into a Wordle