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Entries for Wednesday, March 9, 2005

March 9, 2005

Downtime on Flickr

This is what a horrendous service-debilitating systems crash looks like. Good to know.

Synergy is Overloaded

Kellen commented yesterday that the word Ruby is Overloaded in his life. In the last three days, I’ve experienced the same thing with “Synergy”.

I upgraded Synergy on Sunday, to play with its new Growl integration. Yesterday, I installed Synergy so I could control two computers with one keyboard. And today in a meeting, I discovered that Synergy is my employer’s new corporate standard for source control.1

Thankfully, a quick search of the phone book finds no-one with the surname of “Synergy”, so unless I happen to run into someone who is so in love with the concept of two or more agents or forces interacting so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects, and changed his name to Synergy Smith, I think that should be enough synergy for the week.

1 Of course, after seeing screenshots like this, I immediately went back to my original plans for installing Subversion and FogBugz.

Puppy multi-session live-cd

Now this is interesting… a Linux LiveCD which, when used in a CD-R drive, can save your home directory back onto itself on shutdown.

Zopa - The first lending and borrowing exchange

Fascinating British loans system. Minimises risk for those with money to lend, and minimises costs for those looking to borrow. It’ll be interesting to see how this turns out.

It's Not Dangerous

Tim Bray provides “Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career”. I agree 100%, and have the job to prove it!

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