Resources for Everything

A not at all boring article that's full of genuinely good advice on what not to do if you find yourself writing a scientific paper.

A BBC report on scientists using a radio controlled helicopter to collect samples from whales breathing out.

Here's an old post of mine about controlling conversations in web 2.0 projects. Key message: 'get out of the way'!

Contact information for Ukrainian language tutoring.

My friend Gavin runs this great service that runs workshops in 'digital health' and provides tools to help people have more positive and productive relationships with technology. I may need to book myself an appointment...

What's the mental health equivalent of five-a-day? Take the test and decide for yourself what *you* can do to manage your mind.

The School of Everything presentation on how we are using Amazon's Cloud is now availble online, along with a few other presenations from the Amazon Startup Sessions.

http://www.slideshare.net/group/the-startup-project-aws

http://www.slideshare.net/tracylaxdal/schoolofeverything-presents-on-aws-presentation

I have been trying to get my head around ssh tunnels lately as I need to be able to access a development web server on our private network that doesn't have an IP accessible from the internet.
It's taken me a while to understand what is going on; it can be pretty confusing.

I'd recommend the following for a good explanation of what ports are used, e.g. when your browser requests a page:

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPIPClientEphemeralPortsandClientServerApplicatio.htm

And I thought this was probably the best single page explanation of tunneling:

I spent quite a lot of the weekend fixing my Blade 400 helicopter but I didn't manage to finish it. The lesson here is after you crash, take it apart and work out all the parts you need first! I thought I could tell what was broken and went to the shop and bought the new parts, but it was only after taking it to pieces that I realised I needed other parts as well, so now I have to make yet another trip to the shop.

And make sure you have all the tools you need beforehand. Obvious of course, but I still learned the hard way..

Nice piece by respected VC Fred Wilson on how the web is giving 'power to the people' and what this could mean for education.

Slashdot had a great comment thread on helpful/stupid linux commands the other day - "cd" is one of the most basic commands in linux and one of the first you learn, but I never knew that "cd -" would change your directory back to the last one you were on.

The best comment though was the Russian Roulette method to delete something (the original had rm -rf / of course):

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm some-file-to-delete || echo "You live"

Try transcribing a document and get it marked.

A course to learn Hungarian

Today I've been trying to get my head around how the US election tonight works.

Wikipedia is quite helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election

and I thought this slideshow was very good at explaining things:

http://www.slideshare.net/acordova/the-us-election-explained-presentation-695681/

A good website for those studying music and looking for help on extra notes etc ppmta.ie (post primary music teachers association) and exam papers and marking schemes available at the sec.ie (state exams commission)