Ross M. W. Bennetts

rossbennetts.com

March 7th, 2010
February 28th, 2010
  • "AARNet provides unmetered access to Akamai's cached content" http://j.mp/9ueady #
  • It's happening again… I'm watching blog.une die under load from mysqld & save… What's going on… Started at 6:30pm on the dot.., #
  • perhaps somebody has scheduled a MySQL dump that is not being nice… #
  • RT @JayOatway: The Dalai Lama joins Twitter – http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/02/twitter-dalai-lama.html Follow @DalaiLama #
  • A friendly koala is watching over ITD today :) http://twitpic.com/150s2x #
  • here comes 'save' again… I'm watching you… #
  • looks like it is peaking at a load average ~2.0 tonight… by this time last night it was climbing to 30+… much nicer… thank you :) #
  • load average was ~5-6 when I left the office at 7pm… Blog was still loading, albeit slowly… home now and it is back down to ~0.1… Joy! #
  • "YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13" http://j.mp/aanDxr #
  • RT @stevesong: Society might be better off if you let big banks fail. Michael Jordaan – CEO FNB #hpvconf2010 #
  • "What's Coming in WordPress 3.0 (Features)" http://j.mp/bVaT2t #
  • #FollowFriday @space_cadet @hermanthebold @Sujatin @bunnypatella @UNESupport @jencsage @BeauJoh @ozdj @dannyarcher @dannychoo @DalaiLama #
  • will xbmc on a winxp eeebox be better than xbmc on my xbox1? #
  • XBMC or should I make a Boxee EeeBox? #
  • $6 per slice of cheesecake & they are getting 16 slices per cake… That's a $96 cheesecake… Wow… @gloriajeans #
February 21st, 2010
  • ~daily posts, a few retweets and a proper google crawl = http://rossbennetts.com analytics stats up 2000% #
  • just as I was about to hang my Iron Tiger Prayer Flags, it started pouring with rain… "let the rain of the vast and profound Dharma fall" #
  • be careful what you wish for… I wanted ice cream… someone just threw a McFlurry out of their car into my front yard… #
  • mmm… the fail whale is back… http://bit.ly/bY0pit #
  • It disturbs me to see the biased & distorted world view developed by those who rely on tv & newspapers for their education #
  • When I attempt to correct their deluded views, they get angry and call me an idiot… #
  • Must do Tong Len for them all… Om mani padme hum… #
  • "The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession" S. Holmes #
  • The work that Curtin, Swinburne, Otago, et al., are doing with iTunesU & iPhone makes UNE look so far behind the 8-ball… #
  • Where I used to see glamour, now I just see too much makeup, Botox, pushup bras & plastic surgery… It's a fakery… #
  • Yum… An organic coffee from Fundies Cafe in Byron Bay… http://twitpic.com/148w1r #
  • $69 for a t-shirt… Oh, that's right… I'm in Byron Pay… #
February 14th, 2010
  • "You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless." http://j.mp/duPRGJ by @sethgodin #
  • "WordPress as a Learning Management System – Move Over, Blackboard" http://j.mp/bjis2c #
  • I love getting snail-mail from Google… It seems kind of retro… http://twitpic.com/121c85 #
  • "Poached Eggs 101: How To Poach Eggs Perfectly Every Time" http://j.mp/cPKqnw by @NotQuiteNigella #
  • I had to try it… Eggs Benedict for dinner http://twitpic.com/121htq #
  • RT @mr_gadget: Google Working On Speech-To-Speech Translation Phone, AKA, Your Own Personal Babel Fish – http://bit.ly/bC4gh0 #
  • I'm not even watch Q&A… I was hoping to iView it later but it looks like they're not doing iView for Q&A any more… I wonder why? #qanda #
  • ahhh… OK… it's the first episode for 2010… maybe it will be on iView after all… #qanda #
  • I just made my first Mesh Potato VOIP telephone call from Australia to Germany #
  • The big diesel generators have kicked in to keep the servers alive but most of UNE has been blacked out http://twitpic.com/125ygd #
  • UNE has power again… #
  • "Game Development in a Post-Agile World" http://j.mp/9ffpwS #
  • Apple store is updating… what will we get? new MBPs? iPad pre-order? refresh refresh refresh… http://store.apple.com/ #
  • cool… I haz buzz… #
  • trying to make changes to reduce bottlenecks and increase efficiency is not easy when the biggest bottleneck is resistance to change #
  • RT @privatewisdom: If you can't convince them, confuse them #
  • "Losar – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" Losar (Tibetan: ལོ་གསར་) is the Tibetan word for "new year." http://j.mp/971NVm #
  • Duck Off! The Quest to find the Best Peking Duck in Sydney http://www.notquitenigella.com/2010/02/11/best-peking-duck-in-sydney/ #
  • what a cool idea… flattr http://retwt.me/7S4E #
  • "Leadership Lessons from the Crazy Dancing Guy" http://j.mp/dulwQB #
  • Tashi Delek… Happy New Year… May all have an auspicious Iron Tiger year, 2137 #
February 7th, 2010
  • w00t! http://rossbennetts.com has finally been restored from an ancient backup and is back online… YAYs! :) #
  • "Running Wordpress on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server" http://j.mp/aZDj8R #
  • I think our calendar/timetable server is struggling under the load of all the students checking out this years schedule… slooooooow…. #
  • Mel Gibson instead of Bob Peck… The American remake of 'Edge of Darkness' looks interesting http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226273/ #
  • "There are only 2 kinds of companies, those that recognize they're just like 'Dilbert,' and those that … don't know it yet." @GuyKawasaki #
January 7th, 2010

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by Clarke Scott AKA Loden Jinpa.

January 7th, 2010

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I managed to watch most of the 27th Kagyu Monlam Chenmo (Great Prayer Festival) live from under the Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India over the Christmas/New Year break, via a live stream on Ustream.tv and kagyumonlam.tv
Thanks very much to Jeffrey Chen for organising the live streaming video and audio translataions and a big hi to all the new Dharma friends and the Kagyu Virtual Sangha I met in the online chat while we were praying for an end to buffering…
Karmapa Khenno…

June 30th, 2009

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March 29th, 2009

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You can find me on Twitter here.

March 22nd, 2009

Welcome to my new server

Now I have to decide what to put here…

Seeya…

Ross…