OS X has made me soft. I suddenly had to install and configure FreeBSD on an Intel box and found myself without any graphical administration tools, but had to navigate the system entirely by command-line, and with the wrong keyboard mapping to boot (haha). I'd left all my convenience scripts behind at NADA and it took me an awful while before my fingers started to get the hang of it again.
Finally I had the most important stuff in place. Now for the web application development I got the box for to begin with…
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- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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- Took the bike out for a spin
- I get all ostalgic
- I feel your pain
- I will be hoarse tomorrow
- Thnidu, you were so right
- Come on you Blues!
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- Looking awful
- I dream of stardom
- Coarsely pixellated girls and robots
- Tempus fugit, sed non pro omnis
- Mortal danger as a career
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- Weird and Wonderful
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- Teknisk specifikation SIS/TS 904501:2021 Ergonomi vid människa-systeminteraktion – Användbarhetsrond SIS/TK 380. And now to implement.
- Pilot i Den Danska Brigaden i Sverige under Andra Världskriget: Svensk-dansk flyghistoria A Sandqvist. A tiny corner of history.
- Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, 2nd ed J Rubin & D Chisnell. Friendly and complete, if slightly dated.
- What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy J P Gee. I need to study more pedagogics.
Places I keep track of
- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
- Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
- Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
- Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
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- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
- Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And eight-legged animals.
- Piled Higher and Deeper Mike Slackenerny, that's me. Free food, anyone?
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
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