Rumor overheard today : ESRI might be considering switching from shapefiles to the .osm OpenStreetMap XML file format.
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Want to know when I sleep ? Just mine my social media data : http://www.sleepingtime.org/liotier
Kenyan software Ushahidi leads the way in crisis tracking by enabling crowdsourced realtime information collection - http://j.mp/bLMf0P
Locked out of a lock-pattern protected Android phone ? Just enter login with "null" as password... Yay for bad security - http://j.mp/cOFzoe
Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective. Time to brush-up those SQL (Structured Queer Language) skills - http://j.mp/b4GJ28
Telecom Niue will soon be the first operator providing licensed common-carrier service using OpenBTS open-source GSM BTS: http://j.mp/aUsRjv
Do you like referrer spam ? The you'll love spam in SMTP 550 bounce answers : http://j.mp/ckoTPn - I can't wait to see that in my logs...
"Care and feeding of happy spammers" offers some interesting blog spam control practices - http://j.mp/9J9JOE via Reddit
Benchmarks for Google's RE2 regular expressions engine : compiling is slower but it runs faster and more reliably - http://j.mp/c6yo7M
A visual tour of what’s hot or not in the universe - http://j.mp/9bxxph via Cool Infographics
F-35 is now within $28 million of F-22 cost according to GAO ($112 million average procurement vs. $140 million) http://j.mp/dvnFK2 - lol !
Beyond miniaturization, toward the post-industrial age : how information subjugates mass - http://j.mp/amRJNm
Google introduces the Extensions gallery in Wave. The hype is gone, but Wave still maturing - http://j.mp/abpkBx
Since Mairix won't deal with accents in my mixed locales, I'm about to try maildir-utils which uses Sqlite and Xapian - http://j.mp/dbXyPC
Mairix returns wrong results in some mixed locales. I can't find strings with accentuated chars and no patch is in sight: http://j.mp/dzkc41
