Elsewhere

Here are some other websites I've been reading recently (I'm keeping track of them with the excellent del.icio.us). A lot of them are techie, because that seems to be what I remember to tag as I'm reading them. No promises that they'll be interesting to you!

Plugging mcrypt into PHP, on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 | Michael Gracie

A howto that just works. Nice.

How to Build the CMoy Pocket Amplifier

I have a little project for a neighbour - a mic preamp / aux in / mixer / headphone amp in a package small enough to power from a PP3 battery or 2. This is the headphone amp stage, I think.

Designing for donations | Carsonified

I like this design approach - taps into the psyche of the giver very well...

HOWTO: Make Your Own Tiny URL Alias Service (TinyURL, Bit.ly, Twurl.cc, etc.) With Apache RewriteMap

Not sure if I can use RewriteMap on Joyent shared servers because I haven't got access to the virtualhost config and you can't use it in .htaccess - nevertheless, looks like a nice solution to mapping urls through a processing engine

A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation

tufte-latex - Project Hosting on Google Code

I'm thinking about typesetting a book. This LaTeX class looks nice (I'm a fan of Edward Tufte)

README.rdoc at master from ichverstehe's isaac - GitHub

Got to find a project for this. Always been fascinated with IRB, but never really found a use for it...

MIT TechTV ? Machine Shop 1

BBC - Radio Labs: What's so interesting about URLs anyway?

useful description of the BBC url structure. Geeky.

Interesting BBC data to hack with « Derivadow.com

Wow - the amount of cool data you can get from the BBC website is great!

PHOTOS

Beach at De Hoop Nature Reserve At The Linhay Fausta's Give-away - Ed climbs the hill to the house (followed by the chairs!) Kate Ed and Kate at Kambuga waterfall Dirt roads and hot weather Ljubljana Cathedral Fynbos The road to Kisiizi Pembrokeshire 2008

More photos at Flickr