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	<title>Tim Ginn&#039;s Personal Blog &#187; Finds</title>
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		<title>Nerdcore</title>
		<link>http://tim.timginn.com/2007/03/10/nerdcore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t be the only one who finds this genre absolutely hilarious and entertaining. &#8220;You know you&#8217;re gonna hear people rapping about comic books, video games, role-playing, non-deterministic finite automota but you know we&#8217;ve all got one thing in common and that&#8217;s we&#8217;re all trying to preach the gospel of nerd empowerment, you know we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t be the only one who finds this genre absolutely hilarious and entertaining.</p>
<p>&#8220;You know you&#8217;re gonna hear people rapping about comic books, video games, role-playing, non-deterministic finite automota but you know we&#8217;ve all got one thing in common and that&#8217;s we&#8217;re all trying to preach the gospel of nerd empowerment, you know we&#8217;re trying to  to spread that nerd pride, spread that nerd love.&#8221;</p>
<p>There are some mild profanities in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8VTmy5clHk">the video</a> so if they will offend you don&#8217;t watch it.</p>
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		<title>Collection of Links</title>
		<link>http://tim.timginn.com/2006/07/30/collection_of_links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I've found I have a lot of links that are either bookmarked across different machines or which I've e-mailed to myself in the past and currently just check my inbox to find again.  Needless to say, things are a lot less organized than they could be as the current situation is.  That's why I've decided to create <a href="http://tim.timginn.com/?q=links">this Links page</a>.  It's categorized (somewhat) and should help out with organising things.  Yes, I know of things like bookmarklets and del.icio.us that would be alternative ways of approaching this problem but none of them seem to be something that I'm in the habit of using.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I&#8217;ve found I have a lot of links that are either bookmarked across different machines or which I&#8217;ve e-mailed to myself in the past and currently just check my inbox to find again.  Needless to say, things are a lot less organized than they could be as the current situation is.  That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve decided to create <a href="http://tim.timginn.com/?q=links">this Links page</a>.  It&#8217;s categorized (somewhat) and should help out with organising things.  Yes, I know of things like bookmarklets and del.icio.us that would be alternative ways of approaching this problem but none of them seem to be something that I&#8217;m in the habit of using.<br />
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		<title>World Cup 2006 in ASCII</title>
		<link>http://tim.timginn.com/2006/06/21/world_cup_2006_in_ascii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this today at work: <a href="http://ascii-wm.net/">World Cup 2006 Live in ASCII art</a>.  It's actually ridiculously entertaining (and I don't normally watch soccer).  It's fun when random things like that are linked to from the sites that I actually need to read for work.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across this today at work: <a href="http://ascii-wm.net/">World Cup 2006 Live in ASCII art</a>.  It&#8217;s actually ridiculously entertaining (and I don&#8217;t normally watch soccer).  It&#8217;s fun when random things like that are linked to from the sites that I actually need to read for work.</p>
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		<title>Blod Mad</title>
		<link>http://tim.timginn.com/2006/03/12/blod_mad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If anyone wants an invite for <a href="http://www.blogmad.net/">Blog Mad</a> drop me an e-mail tim[at]timginn.com.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If anyone wants an invite for <a href="http://www.blogmad.net/">Blog Mad</a> drop me an e-mail tim[at]timginn.com.</p>
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		<title>The IT Crowd</title>
		<link>http://tim.timginn.com/2006/02/18/the_it_crowd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a new UK production from Channel4 called <a href="http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/I/itcrowd/">The IT Crowd</a>.  Episodes are available to those not in Britain from <a href="http://atariboy.wordpress.com/">AtariBoy</a> (and are freely downloadable from the website for those in the UK).  I've enjoyed watching the first five episodes and look forward to many more.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a new UK production from Channel4 called <a href="http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/I/itcrowd/">The IT Crowd</a>.  Episodes are available to those not in Britain from <a href="http://atariboy.wordpress.com/">AtariBoy</a> (and are freely downloadable from the website for those in the UK).  I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching the first five episodes and look forward to many more.</p>
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		<title>I </title>
		<link>http://tim.timginn.com/2005/08/15/i_3_nx/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found out from <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/">Linux Journal</a> about <a href="http://nomachine.com/">NoMachine NX</a>.  What it lets me do is use X11 remotely a <b>lot</b> faster than would otherwise be possible.  A lot of the juicy technical details are in <i>The Arrival of NX</i> on Linux Journal; but, briefly how it works is by using a specialised compression algorithm optimised for graphical sessions.  I was trying out the Windows client at the <a href="http://asus.queensu.ca/">ASUS CORE</a> today and I found it to be easy to setup and very responsive compared to a regular X11 session (through Cygwin with the X Server); that's over a LAN, but apparently NX will even work over things like a cellular modem (which is pretty impressive).   Apparently NX can also work with VNC and the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol, so, if you're using either of those rather than (or in addition to) X11 it might be worth taking a look at.  The cost is right (free).
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found out from <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/">Linux Journal</a> about <a href="http://nomachine.com/">NoMachine NX</a>.  What it lets me do is use X11 remotely a <b>lot</b> faster than would otherwise be possible.  A lot of the juicy technical details are in <i>The Arrival of NX</i> on Linux Journal; but, briefly how it works is by using a specialised compression algorithm optimised for graphical sessions.  I was trying out the Windows client at the <a href="http://asus.queensu.ca/">ASUS CORE</a> today and I found it to be easy to setup and very responsive compared to a regular X11 session (through Cygwin with the X Server); that&#8217;s over a LAN, but apparently NX will even work over things like a cellular modem (which is pretty impressive).   Apparently NX can also work with VNC and the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol, so, if you&#8217;re using either of those rather than (or in addition to) X11 it might be worth taking a look at.  The cost is right (free).<br />
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		<title>More of those things that I intend to read but haven&#8217;t gotten around to</title>
		<link>http://tim.timginn.com/2005/07/24/more_of_those_things_that_i_intend_to_read_but_haven&#039;t_gotten_around_to/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here's more of those things that I intend to read but haven't gotten around to...

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, here&#8217;s more of those things that I intend to read but haven&#8217;t gotten around to&#8230;</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/dd/">Delta Debugging</a> &#8211; &#8220;From automated testing to automated debugging&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.fundable.org/">Fundable</a> &#8211; &#8220;Raise cash for a shared beach house, a group skydiving trip or a communal margarita machine by creating an all-or-nothing fundraising campaign at fundable.org. Set a economic goal&#8211;say, $1,000 to rent a house&#8211;and ask pals to contribute.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/07/yahoo_unveils_b.html">Yahoo! Unveils RSS search</a> &#8211; this could be a handy thing to have around.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/3463">Canadian  Geocoder + XML API</a> &#8211; Nifty, possibly easier than using <a href="http://www.multimap.org/">Multimap</a> (and apparently more digits of precision).</p>
<p><a href="http://phpsec.org/projects/guide/">PHP Security Guide</a> &#8211; enough said.  Definitely something I&#8217;ve got to read before releasing the next bunch of <a href="http://asus.queensu.ca">ASUS things</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&amp;storyid=2005-07-12T183546Z_01_N12239684_RTRIDST_0_TECH-YAHOO-DC.XML">Yahoo! Hot Jobs searches</a> &#8211; crawls the web for jobs&#8230; that&#8217;s kind of cool</p>
<p><a href="http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbrsa/en/issue/0507/article/R0507L.jhtml?path=arc&amp;pubDate=July%202005">Managing for Creativity</a> (found via <a href="http://www.slashdot.org/">Slashdot</a>).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kolab.org/">Kolab</a> &#8211; groupware software.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11271">A  Practical Guide to Linux Commands</a> &#8211; if it&#8217;s good, I might have to recommend it to a few people who ask.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/07/12/earning-milestones/">Pro Blogger</a> &#8211; Earning milestones?  Hmm, maybe there&#8217;s some tips?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.whitedust.net/article/21/Securing%20Your%20Network:%20Removing%20Unwanted%20Devices/">Securing  Your Network: Removing Unwanted Devices</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=282428">Some stuff on PDO and database abstraction in PHP</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/3486">Getting rid of trackback spam</a></p>
<p>AJAX stuff: <a href="http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2005/07/21/ajax-resource-updates/">AJAX Resource updates</a>, <a href="http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/3524">Punish your clients less</a>, <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=283623">AJAX and PHP</a>, <a href="http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/3489">The HTML_AJAX package</a>, </p>
<p><a href="http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/3493">Getting started with PHP</a> (if it&#8217;s good, I know some people who would be interested)</p>
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		<title>The War on Terror</title>
		<link>http://tim.timginn.com/2005/07/23/the_war_on_terror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this from <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/">ongoing</a>, whose description is:

"There aren’t that many people who know what what the Bourne Shell is, care about Middle Eastern politics, and have a sense of humor. But if you’re one of them, don’t miss this version of The War on Terror."

So, here it is: 
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ThinGuy?entry=the_war_on_terror_as">The War on Terror</a> bash-style.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across this from <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/">ongoing</a>, whose description is:</p>
<p>&#8220;There aren’t that many people who know what what the Bourne Shell is, care about Middle Eastern politics, and have a sense of humor. But if you’re one of them, don’t miss this version of The War on Terror.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, here it is:<br />
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ThinGuy?entry=the_war_on_terror_as">The War on Terror</a> bash-style.</p>
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		<title>The list of sites that I plan to read, but haven&#8217;t gotten a chance to, yet</title>
		<link>http://tim.timginn.com/2005/07/07/the_list_of_sites_that_i_plan_to_read__but_haven&#039;t_gotten_a_chance_to__yet/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's some assorted things that I found through various sources, and am planning on reading more about...
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s some assorted things that I found through various sources, and am planning on reading more about&#8230;<br />
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eAccelerator &#8211; &#8220;increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated.&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://eaccelerator.net/HomeUk">http://eaccelerator.net/HomeUk</a></p>
<p>GUIdebook &#8211; Graphical User Interface gallery (it&#8217;s got some neat retro screen shots) &#8211; <a href="http://www.aresluna.org/guidebook">http://www.aresluna.org/guidebook</a></p>
<p>Cleaning up with AJAX &#8211; osNews calls this &#8220;A handy primer to using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML&#8221; <a href="http://www.builderau.com.au/program/0,39024614,39195723,00.htm">http://www.builderau.com.au/program/0,39024614,39195723,00.htm</a></p>
<p>Read/Write Web: Technocrati the No.1 blog search engine according to Alexa &#8211; <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002775.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002775.php</a></p>
<p>Build Your Own Chat-Cord &#8211; &#8220;Now you can use any plain old phone to make calls over the internet, using Skype MSN-audio or any other VoIP software.&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/05/1212200&#038;from=rss">http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/05/1212200&#038;from=rss</a></p>
<p>MySQL clustering &#8211; <a href="http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/3437">http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/3437</a></p>
<p>ASP.NET similar to PHP 5? &#8211; <a href="http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/3429">http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/3429</a></p>
<p>Full Circle: A Brief History of NeXT &#8211; <a href="http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/0705.html">http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/0705.html</a></p>
<p>A single sitting reading introduction to Regular Expressions in PHP (that might be a quicker intro than the site I currently use when I next need to explain regex to people) &#8211; <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/regex/regex.php">http://weblogtoolscollection.com/regex/regex.php</a></p>
<p>BeOS: Has-Been Or Will-Be? &#8211; I wonder how the projects are getting along, it&#8217;s been a while since I last checked &#8211; <a href="http://osviews.com/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=4878">http://osviews.com/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=4878</a></p>
<p>A Glimpse at the Linux Desktop of the Future &#8211; <a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/05/006223&#038;from=rss">http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/05/006223&#038;from=rss</a></p>
<p>Scientists Complete Universe Millennium Simulation &#8211; Ooh, pretty pictures &#8211; <a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/06/0311220&#038;from=rss">http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/06/0311220&#038;from=rss</a></p>
<p>Anatomy Of A Hack &#8211; The Rise And Fall Of Your Network &#8211; <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11072">http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11072</a></p>
<p>Against Artificial Intelligence &#8211; This reminds me of the COGS100 (Introduction to Cognitive Science) course I took <a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/6/27/93627/1007">http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/6/27/93627/1007</a></p>
<p>How To Win At Life &#8211; With a title like that, and considering the source (kuro5hin.org) I think this can only possibly be entertaining &#8211; <a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/2/7825/69606">http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/2/7825/69606</a></p>
<p>So, with any luck I&#8217;ll get a chance to read up on those things soon.</p>
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