Handy mac app that’s been getting good press as a reliable means of mounting an external SFTP volume as a local drive, making it much easier to work with remote files.

(tags: osx software sftp filesystem)

Out to be require reading for anyone who is designing a website, be they professional or amateur. The same rules apply to corporate sites as they do to your custom blog layout, you know…

(tags: typography design web)

Well, this is sounds like it can only be a good thing. LJ’s new owners will be getting input from some very very smart people to help them balance the needs of the business and the needs of users.

(tags: socialnetworking livejournal)

A technique for structuring parent-child data in a database that I hadn’t run across before and is much more elegant that the methods I’ve used in the past. This will change my approach to certain kinds of data. (The rest of you can wake up now.)

(tags: php mysql database hierarchical development)

More stuff about managing hierachical data as infinitely nestable sets. Look, I make an effort to keep too much of this stuff out of this linkblog, but you’re going to have to live with it once in a while, ok?

(tags: hierarchical tree database mysql howto)

Useful reference, and some amazing photography in here.

(tags: photography history reference photojournalism)

These are almost all awesome, and I want most of them on my walls.

(tags: design typography posters)

On the back of weekend conversation
I present for your delectation
A bunch of limericks, quite nerdy
Some of them short, some wordy
But all of them worth the quotation.

(tags: humour limericks)

This might come in handy at some future point – I’ve been working on a graph-heavy project for a client, and it would have been ace to have this available when we started.

(tags: google api chart graph visualization)

They say: “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?”

They’re right, and it’s superb.

(tags: garfield comics funny existentialism)

Most programmers I know have one or two of these to hand most of the time. I’d like to take time to go through them, anhd work out which ones best fit my needs.

(tags: programming cheatsheet reference)

The camera on the phone is for quickblogging while out and about, and I email the pics I want off it so it’s a pain to have to close iphoto every time I plug the thing in. Here’s how to stop it.

(tags: iphone iphoto howto osx)

An animated gif showing a progesssion in size of various celestial bodies, starting with the moon, and ending with the largest known star. Awesome, in the most literal sense.

(tags: science as)

You know how I said I was happy with the look of Black Ink? I lied. I’m happy for values of “tweaked off the shelf”. I’m working on my own completely custom design, and I will be using this font in the new look one.

(tags: design)

My writing site has finally been given the wash and a brush up it’s needed for years, and for the first time in ages I’m happy with it. It’s only a modified off the shelf job, but I like how it looks.

(tags: photos fiction)

Wikileaks is under attack by a bank whose shady dealings they’ve published info on – unable to effectively censor their hosting across multiple countries, they’ve gone after their DNS. The site is reachable by IP, and linking will help stop the bastards.

(tags: wiki journalism wikileaks freedom information)

A friend-of-friends is currently imprisoned in Dubai on utterly fabricated charges, and facing several years in jail, and his friends are raising money for a legal defence. Please, please, donate what you can.

(tags: corruption false_charges help appeal dubai cunts)

New weekly webcomic from Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield

(tags: steampunk comic free)