February 2012
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“If you were to compare Cambodia with just about any other country at a similar...”
– Stephen Higgens, ANZ Royal CEO
August 2011
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My Take on Cambodia's Land Issues
Almost all of the problems that we hear about in Cambodia such as child-malnutrition, infant mortality, death from preventable diseases or mothers dying during child birth are symptoms of the same problem - poverty. The right to be properly fed as a child, the right to give birth without a significant risk of death and the right to not be struck down often before your fifth birthday by...
November 2010
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Cambodia's 3.5G Pepsi Challenge
As we all know from the huge billboards all over town and the none stop TV and newspaper ads the telco’s here are really slugging it out over their respective 3G offerings at the moment. This is great news for us consumers, as it’s a buyers market! I mean, just check out the current deal from Mobitel, unlimited 3G for $5 a month?!!!!
There’s been talk for a long time that...
September 2010
1 post
Anonymous asked: Chris are you signing up for a slice?
June 2010
1 post
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Ubuntu Repair Hard Disk After Hard Reboot
Occasionally after a hard reboot, next time you startup you’ll get a black screen after grub. To fix, boot to a live CD, fire up the terminal and do: sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -f -v /dev/sda1 (might not be sda1 for you) If this comes back reporting errors, then do: sudo e2fsck -c -k -v /dev/sda1
April 2010
3 posts
On Writing Well
Earlier Tweet: “I really like the idea of blogging and have lots to say, but unfortunately Sloth from the Goonies has more advanced literary skills than me.”
I’m stuck in bed with tonsillitis, so what a great chance to do some studying to improve my writing style and technique. Trawling through Amazon reviews I came across On Writing Well by William Zinsser which seems to offer...
Just ordered an Amazon Kindle DX
I’ve always liked the idea of an ebook reader, but as the technical and non-fiction books that I usually read weren’t available in the Kindle store and PDF support was so crap on its competitors none of them were really offering what I was looking for when I checked early last year.
Anyway I decided to take another look and see what’s changed and discovered the Kindle DX, it has...
Coolest link ever: Aug. 7. 1991 Post on Usenet by... →
March 2010
6 posts
“Living in the Information Age, for all its benefits and wonders, is like...”
– Joshua Porter - Designing for the Social Web
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Simple Diagrams - "does exactly what it says on...
Just installed a great little application called Simple Diagrams, it creates really cool diagrams extremely quickly and uses the ‘freehand sketch’ style of drawing which instantly communicates to the viewer that this just a quick little draft. I do system diagrams infrequently so used to spend a few hours every six months relearning Dia or Visio - never again!
Check it out -...
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Map 'Alt Gr' Key to 'Alt'
Not sure if this is normal these days, but my UK keyboard on my Thinkpad T500 has an ‘Alt Gr’ key where the right Alt key usually is. Apparently this is so I can access those funny European characters but the reality is that it’s crippled what is probably the joint second most used key in Emacs.
I’ve fixed this problem before but it raised its ugly head once more when I...
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VirtualBox: No IP Address on Copied .vmi
Last night I installed Ubuntu 10.04 beta as I’m too impatient to wait another month and was reminded of an old recurring problem.
Scenario:
You copy a .vmi from one machine to another, create a new machine using the copied .vmi as the hard disk then boot up and you don’t get an IP from DHCP.
Solution:
Open /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, delete all of the contents, save...
October 2009
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OS & Editor/IDE Freedom in a Team Environment
When it comes to dev stations in labs most companies I’ve seen try to keep things simple by having all the devs working on very similar (if not identical) machines in terms of the os and installed software. Then offices will often have a pre-production server locally or a staging server at their data-center/cloud-cluster. Cool this works and is exactly what we are currently doing at our...
June 2009
1 post
Baz Camp
**disclaimer: I love BarCamps, I think they are a fantastic idea and it is my intention to support them through attendance, contribution and participation whenever possible, now and always**
I’m a programmer, I literally live and breath it. I love the infinite learning process that this profession provides, it suites my personality type perfectly. Also it has to be said being a programmer...
April 2009
3 posts
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$ ec2 Enter passphrase for key 'ec2-keypair.pem':
Every now and again when setting up an Amazon EC2 instance you will start asking you for the keyphrase for your ec2-keypair.pem file even though the file doesn’t require a keypair.
After some trial and error I discovered that this is the default behaviour whenever there is any problem with the ec2-keypair.pem file.
It could be one of three problems:
ec2-keypair.pem file has the wrong...
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Time to go the other way?
When it comes to building a large web presence from the ground up the evolutionary timeline usually goes something like this:
Website
Web app
Mobile
Desktop (Titanium / Air etc)
The problem with this order is the least pure implementation of your vision in terms of user interaction is tackled first and the most pure uncompromising implementation is saved for last. We all know that what has...
Time to give tumblr a go...
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