User:Woozle

Woozle (known to a few select relatives as "Nick Staddon") is approximately half of The Hypertwins and has contact information here and a more substantial/general homepage here.

Hardware

• 2006-02-16 Woozle's new HP 4370 - a review
• Insignia IN-MP101
• to be reviewed
  • Kenmore 44102 -- works as well as the old unit did
  • Dual XDM6820 -- no inter-track gap on audio CDs (good); haven't tried MP3s yet
  • AcerScan 620UT -- still using this in 2009
  • Sansa Fuze by SanDisk (manual (PDF))
    • 2008-05-21 Sandisk Sansa View on Ubuntu Linux: don't let go of the "left" button too soon or it won't work...

Homes

• 2002-present: Durham, NC
• 1992-2002: Athens, GA
• 1990-1991: Durham, NC
• 1985-1989: Providence, RI
• 1985 (summer): Ann Arbor, MI
• 1967-1985: Durham, NC
  • 1973-1974: Oxford, England
• 1965-1967: Toronto

Visited

• 1973-1974: Oxford, England
• 1991:
  • Vienna, Austria
  • Szombathely, Hungary
  • Paris, France
• 1994: Yorkshire, England
• 2000(?): Hereford, AZ

Software

• AudioFerret: distributed jukebox
• FinanceFerret: a sensible personal money manager
• InstaGov: collaborative decisionmaking for large groups
• MailFerret: a better email program
• SpamFerret: spam filter plug-in for MediaWiki
• /TaskFerret: I don't know if this is going to be useful or not
• VbzCart: shopping cart and order management web software
• W3TPL: scripting extension for MediaWiki
• Libraries:
  • PHP:
    • /data.php
    • /datamgr.php
    • /menu.php
  • /VB libraries: libraries for Visual Basic 5.0
• /kscope, a screensaver that works in everything from Windows 3.x to WinXP

Vehicles

• 1967 Dodge Coronet 440 station wagon (stolen mid-1990s)
• 1983 Mercedes Benz 380 SEL
• 1987 Nissan Maxima

Non-Technical Projects

• /Josh

Notes

to be filed

• micro-blogging:
  • identi.ca: software is open-source
  • Twitter
• Maker Faire North Carolina: file under issuepedia:citizen empowerment and something like home manufacturing here
• Demand Studios: We're hiring freelance writers
• crowdsourcing:
  • Aardvark
  • PredictionBook (also file under prediction registries)
• Wikimedia Strategic Planning
• WebCalendar:
  • WebCalendar wiki
  • WebCalendar Downloads
  • WebCalendar Upgrading Notes
• Cambrian: part of San Jose, CA

Issuepedia

• The ACORN Lawsuit: Correcting the More Egregious Misstatements and Misunderstandings
• Guns, Crime, and the Swiss
• Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in
• Refuting Myths on Health Care and Medicare for All
• The Gold Parachute "Or, how to stop worrying and save yourself from the president’s profligate spending and stubborn insistence on no new taxes."
• Police confiscation powers to be given to councils, quangos and others
• The Missing $1,000,000 Tax Bracket
• The Truth About Tytler
• Three local experts devour the new book Just Food
• On rape and men (Oh yes, I'm going there)
• A New Look at theTragedy of the Commons
• atheism quotes: file individually in Issuepedia
• Foundation Beyond Belief: social network for humanist/nontheistic foundation
• The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief
• Hanging citizen journalists out to dry: shield-law amendment excludes unpaid bloggers: did I already file this? It needs to be updated -- the definition of "journalist" was broadened
• Updated: Fox News altered 'Obama praise' story to exclude 'death threats
• Exclusive: Schakowsky Responds to Edmonds Claim, Vehemently Denies Lesbian Tryst With Turkish Agent
• Exclusive: Cover Story on Edmonds 'Outs' Video-taped, 'Blackmailed' Dem Congresswoman; Alleges State Dept. Mole at NYTimes; MUCH MORE...
• When a Parent’s ‘I Love You’ Means ‘Do as I Say’
• Does hateful rhetoric really lead to violence? History gives us the clear answer: yes
• Jesus & Alinsky: not sure how useful this actually is; reread
• Kevin Barrett:
  • Holocaustism vs. Islam
  • In May 2008 I announced I was running for Congress
• New Version Of "What Hit The Pentagon?"
• VelvetRevolution
• Torture Accountability
• The Foundations of Authoritarianism
• Gov 2.0 and New Economies - Designing the Social Contract
• What should science do? Sam Harris v. Philip Ball
• The murder of Dr. George Tiller recalls the long history of anti-abortion violence: possibly already filed?
• Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
• How Americans Think About Torture – And Why
• From the Couch to the Culture: How Psychological Analysis Can Strengthen the Progressive Agenda
• A Cyber-Attack on an American City
• Peoples Archive soon moving to Web Of Stories: videos of famous people telling their life stories
• Bill Clinton, Glass-Steagall and the Current Financial and Mortgage Crisis, Part Two of an InDepth Investigative Report
• Fed Dread "The New York Fed is the most powerful financial institution you've never heard of. Look who's running it."
• Ten Ways to Bring the Bush Administration's Torture Ten to Justice (and One Way to Avoid)
• Ugolog Creates Surveillance Website To Watch Anyone, Anywhere
• The Pirate Bay verdict goes English, and we dish the dirt
• Brin: links on space-based solar power and cloud computing; see reader response to cloud computing article
• Daily Censored
• Dialogue a Key Ingredient of Democracy Missing in US Corporate News Media
• Project Censored
  • Pasadena Weekly articles about Project Censored
• The Top 20 Reasons Not to Move to Dubai
• Truckling to the Faithful: A Spoonful of Jesus Helps Darwin Go Down

KDE development

Anonymous (read-only) svn access to KDE:

• svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdevelop

Relevant web pages:

• kde.techbase:Welcome to KDE TechBase
• kde.techbase:Getting Started/Sources/Using Subversion with KDE
• kde.techbase:Getting Started/Build/KDE4
• kde.techbase:Development/Tutorials/Plasma/WallpaperHelloWorld
• source code for slideshow wallpaper on KDE 4
• wikipedia:Plasma (KDE): an explanation of what it is