Woohoo! I love treemapping PC apps like WinDirStat. Now there’s an open source Mac equivalent, Grand Perspective.
See, for example, my hard drive:
Archive for April, 2006
Grand Perspective
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006Six degrees
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006In case anyone had forgotten Six degrees of whatever…
15 Billion years of Apple’s history
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006A humorous take on the last 15 billion years of Apple’s history.
Beyond Top Secret
Monday, April 10th, 2006Just one of the people protecting America’s homeland security
Meanwhile, the US is wanting to finally unleash its bunker-busting nukes on Iran. But George may have to fly the plane himself, as there might not be many people left in the military wanting to have a hand in it. Slim Pickens anyone?
V for Vendetta - Unmasked
Sunday, April 9th, 2006In case anyone’s awake and interested, V for Vendetta - Unmasked is on at 12:30am Monday morning on Channel 10.
Grrr…
Saturday, April 8th, 2006Teacher in “Boston Public”: “I don’t want it in metres per second, that’s confusing, give it to me in miles per hour”.
On the positive side, I have re-discovered units.
A random day
Friday, April 7th, 2006- Ignore alarm.
- Got up.
- Breakfast.
- Vitamins and fish oil.
- Feed Puggle.
- Shower.
- Teeth.
- Walk to Bus stop (listen to Berkeley Groks podcast).
- Bus to uni.
- Coffee.
- Finish moving CVS repository to Subversion.
- Update Eclipse
- Update documentation in Wiki.
- Realise the cvs2svn script seems to have merged code from a branch into the trunk.
- Lunch.
- Enhance grokking of Eclipse, subclipse and Ant build.xmls
- Coffee.
- More grokking.
- Show Puggle the peacocks.
- Off to dinner.
- Home.
- Fetch mail.
- Put Puggle to bed.
- Water garden.
- MacGeekery.
- Hot chocolate.
- Pay bills.
- Tea.
- TV.
- Blogs.
- More MacGeekery.
- Write blog entries.
- Further World Domination schemes.
- Teeth.
- Bed.
- Set alarm.
- Sleep.
Random linkage
Friday, April 7th, 2006For those of you who don’t listen to the This Week In Science podcast:
- Neuroscientists work out that serotonin deficits in areas of the brain controlling gasping may be linked to SIDS
- Diabetic heart is overdependent on fat
- Looking at moderately heavy female models may lower women’s self esteem more than moderately thin or extremely heavy models
For those of you not subscribed to the Make RSS Feed
Some random other stuff I’ve come across recently. Science is rapidly catching up with SF:
- Tissue engineers successfully replace patients’ bladders with ones cloned from patients’ cells
- I was looking for info on using FPET scans for lie detection, and found this whole blog on related subjects
Not enough weeties…
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006Does anyone want to donate a spare code from the Weetbix “Win a Winnebago” competition? I have two codes already, but haven’t been able to find another card.
If I win you get a ride in a Winnebago in the sunshine with the warm wind in your hair 
Inquiring minds want to know…
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006Anyone know where to find a database of Australian Postcode centroids? I’d rather not have to construct my own
