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Re: [The Java Posse] The history of rickroll (it wasn't as Joe said)

j...@joeygibson.com (Joey Gibson) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:57:00 UT

There was a great example of Rickrolling in 2008 during the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade. The float for the excellent show Foster's Home for
Imaginary Friends was rolling into view, when all of a sudden the music
changed to Astley's song and Rick Astley himself walked out onto the float
and performed (or lip-synced) his song. It was hilarious.

Re: Money Managers

netp...@gmail.com (Rob Wilson) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:04:42 UT

I've re-loaded Microsoft Money 2004, it's old, but still very good and
you must be able to pick that up cheap 2nd hand... I think it was only
£40 new at the time! I tried a few open source ones, but they all
felt rather clunky. I am using a Mac and installed VirtualBox to get
XP running on it - it was actually worth it.

Re: The history of rickroll (it wasn't as Joe said)

casper.b...@gmail.com (Casper Bang) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:16:43 UT

And in later years popularized/i18nized by Anonymous' backlash on
Scientology.
[link]
/Casper

Re: The history of rickroll (it wasn't as Joe said)

reini...@gmail.com (Reinier Zwitserloot) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:01:32 UT

and both duckrolling and its evolution to rickrolling comes from
4chan. Which you shouldn't go to if you value your sanity, not to
mention the professional courtesy (such as e.g. being employed) of
those who can see your computer screen. But it can be hilarious on
occasion.

Cool stuff we got for Christmas

christ...@catchpole.net (Christian Catchpole) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:57:18 UT

I was quite happy with this little item:
[link]
It's an alarm clock but I think the clock is broken. Oh well.

The history of rickroll (it wasn't as Joe said)

michael.ne...@gmail.com (Michael Neale) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:05:09 UT

In episode WhateverICan'tRemember, Joe explained rick rolling as
coming from goatse - whilst in some base sense that is true (tricking
people into looking at something else), really it came more from "duck
rolling" - tricking people into looking at a picture of a duck with
wheels on it (hence the "rolling" bit).

Re: The cult of Apple secrecy

casper.b...@gmail.com (Casper Bang) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:43:10 UT

Sorry but I just have got to add a little additional scary context
here:
[link]
For what it's worth, I don't think the Gestapo methods scale with
their new found success. You order 45 mio. OLED screens and it's bound
to leak.
/Casper

The cult of Apple secrecy

sur...@gmail.com (Spencer Uresk) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:16:07 UT

I've always thoroughly enjoyed the holiday episodes, despite them
being a little lighter in news and Java content. One thing that
intrigued me a bit in this episode was Joe's discussion of the
measures Apple takes to maintain secrecy around new products, and
their reasons for doing so.
Certainly, I understand the benefits of maintaining secrecy around

Re: Money Managers

lui...@fastmail.fm (Luis Miranda) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:58:05 UT

I've used GnuCash on Windows, and am curerntly using it on Mac OS X.
I've found previous versions to be buggy at times, but I'm quite happy
with the current version.
I've tried out Moneydance and it looks quite good, but I couldn't
stand to lose my history from GnuCash. That's lock-in for you. :)
Their licensing terms are quite interesting though (you only need 1

Re: [The Java Posse] Money Managers

peter.becker...@gmail.com (Peter Becker) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:14:29 UT

I never really got out of the research stage, but KMyMoney and jgnash
seemed decent contenders in the OSS world.
[link]
[link]
The OpenDirectory has a lot of links to offer:
[link]

Re: [The Java Posse] Money Managers

kev.lee.wri...@googlemail.com (Kevin Wright) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:45:52 UT

Okay, that's just spooky, I've recently been discussing exactly this need
over on the London Scala user group:
[link]
I took a different angle though, and was considering writing this a a
showcase app for Scala, especially as nothing currently available seems to

Money Managers

rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com (Rakesh) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:38:01 UT

Hi guys,
one of my resolutions for 2010 is to get better at sorting out my finances.
Anybody recommend any software packages or if they just use excel?
I'm in the UK so Quicken and Microsoft Money (i believe) are no longer
supported. Would be good to hear if the independent/open source ones are
actually any good. I just want to be able to enter expenditure and see where

Re: [The Java Posse] The Scala Compiler Corner

kev.lee.wri...@googlemail.com (Kevin Wright) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:03:45 UT

Sweeter than a sweet thing with and extra helping of especially sweet sugar
on top :)
2010/1/2 Miguel Garcia <mgarcia...@yahoo.com>

The Scala Compiler Corner

mgarcia...@yahoo.com (Miguel Garcia) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:17:14 UT

Hi,
After two months of build-up, I want to bring to your attention
The Scala Compiler Corner
[link]
a growing collection of resources on how the Scala compiler works (and
how it can be hacked).
Besides write-ups on the implementation of built-in compilation

London Scala User's Group - meeting on Jan 20th

kev.lee.wri...@googlemail.com (Kevin Wright) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:49:25 UT

Details are here: [link]
<[link]>We also have a wave here:
[link]
and a google group here: [link]
Here's to 2010!