GPS Reviews - OpenStreetMap
reviews of a wide range of GPS gadgets
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Tony Finch - no-longer-simple mail transport protocol
good overview of additions to the basic SMTP protocol. Explains header encoding, mime types, quoted printable, base64, etc
Simple Plots in R
r examples, including how to add a "best fit" line
Scapy
powerful network shell
Apple's MacRoman character set and equivalent Unicode and HTML characters
Anodyne » Blog Archive » Rspec custom matchers and be_valid_xhtml
custom RSpec matcher to validate XHTML using the w3 SOAP validation service
Validating RSS Feeds with RSpec
custom RSpec matcher to validate RSS feeds
Howto: Linux Lighttpd SSL (secure server layer) https configuration and installation
Craig Ambrose. respond_to.email, or how to handle incoming emails in rails RESTfully
innovative way to handle receiving email in a rails app
ljrb -- LiveJournal Ruby module
RFC 3629 UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
UTF-8: in RFC form!
Object#andand
cool sounding little library for guarded method invocation: object.andand.method will return the result of method if object exists, or nil if object doesn't exist
Wbox HTTP testing tool
neat little app for testing the responsiveness of a HTTP server
Phoneworks Pty Ltd
possible central splitter installer
East Timor Journal: Unfolding News
"As has been reported widely, Dili has remained calm following the coordinated assassination attempt against the president and prime minister of Timor-Leste."
Motives a mystery in dawn shootouts | The Australian
THE sense on the streets of Dili yesterday was that nothing had happened. There was a calm - not the sinister calm Dili is so accustomed to, but a waiting calm.
Book Depository
online bookshop in the UK that really seems to the whole dont-be-evil thing
louise_allana: Someone else's words
It's odd and beautiful after 12 years of anger and frustration and shame, to have a leader who has done the right thing, and spoken for us, and spoken beautifully, and sincerely, in a way I can stand behind, and be proud of.
Speech by Hon Kevin Rudd MP
Rudd's full "sorry" speech to parliament, taken from Hansard
Speech by Hon Dr Brendan Nelson MP
The oppositions leaders contribution to the apology to indigenous Australians
Sigcomm 2001: Van Jacobson Presentation
slides interesting from an interesting presentation by Van Jacobson on the nature of networks as we move forward.
Haggle Project
EU networking project that removes all OSI layers above the datalink and allows applicationsn to communicate directly.
Unicode: Index of /Public/MAPPINGS
Mappings from a wide range of encodings into Unicode
Miscellaneous Symbols - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
Well, I'm Back: String Theory
UTF-16 is the devil's work. UTF-8 rules.
Installing Ruby 1.8.6 on Debian Etch (stable) | randomba
good example of how to backport a package from debian testing/unstable onto a stable machine
Unicode Character Search