After recently receiving a great freebie from a friend (a VPS host), I've been delving into the Gentoo Linux distribution. I'm kinda impressed thus far with emerge/portage as compared against pkgsrc, but also found these two lovely apps.

Ah... just another excellent example of an awesome invention that is so stupidly simple, and will probably make the creator, Michael Stavrou, a considerable sum of money.

Read the ABC's The New Inventors article here.

Brilliant. The Every Drop Shower Saver.

Got sent an awesome link by Kokman. I love it. I love hating iPhones and iPhone dipshits. Check it here.

And while I'm on a YouTube posting spree, this too is a fascinating presentation by Vint. For those of you that weren't on the net back in the 90s, it has some funny historical info too (bet you've never heard of, or used, an acoustic coupler -- I have! :P)

Got sent this by Rob -- spare the time if you have it, it's quite an interesting presentation, and now has me interested in checking out Getting Things Done.

Found this today via a forum. Really quite awesome.

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

My first Movember is over :)

Chopchop says thanks to all that donated :)

Thanks to you guys, I raised $415.55!

Our team raised a total of $746.65!

Awesome work, and thanks again.

That's right -- I'm doing the Movember thing this year :)

Please read on for more information; especially, how to donate to a very worthy cause...

Just read another excellent article from Danny Katz of The Age.

I gave up Ann-Margret to save the planet.

I went to Brisvegas last week to attend the 2007 installment of Networkers.