2010-04-17 (Saturday)
Links
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RadarVirtuel.com with a Volcano Ashes Layer
Similar to flightradar24.com, but includes a “Volcano Ashes Layer” on the map.
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Stack Exchange 2.0 - StackExchangeBlog
The process for setting up Stack Overflow-style question and answer sites and, importantly, ensuring they’re busy enough to be useful. Interesting.
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Watch Air Traffic - LIVE! - We said cash, not ash!
Amazing. And I want to drag the planes around a la ‘Flight Control’. As I look now there are no planes in Europe north of Spain. Wow.
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Eleven Django blog engines you should know | Monty Lounge Blog
Fairly recent round-up.
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IMAP Folders
Cal’s Perl script for seeing which of your IMAP folders are taking up most space. Handy.
Tweets
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Pizza, beer and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'. Now off to see 'The Ghost'. #ashwidower
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Phew, done, time to go home. 3.5 weeks of Diary in hand, more ahead than I've ever been I think.
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Ooh, flight-tracking fans, http://www.radarvirtuel.com/ has a "Volcano Ashes Layer" on the map! Awesome.
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There's a plane over northern Germany! http://www.flightradar24.com/ Don't they know!? Come in BER669P, your time's up!
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Are all the rubbish tracks on old Madness albums rubbish because they're rubbish or rubbish because I didn't get to know them when I was 10?
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@megp It's a service rather than software, but http://www.xero.com/ seems popular and well-liked. Haven't used it myself though.
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In the office for the afternoon, with a scotch egg, slab of fruit cake, and Mr Pepys.
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Breakfast, coffee, Top 40 on TV, window open on a sunny morning, birds singing.