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Name: Cristiano Gerard Betta

Email: cbetta@gmail.com

Dutch/Italian, London based web developer, geek, student, photographer and blogger.

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Simon Maddox: I have a 60GB drive that you can borrow, if you want!
http://alcopop.org/me/openid/: It was the one on page four (I didn\’t realise the comments were common...
http://alcopop.org/me/openid/: Hi, the pipe debug link in this page is broken.
Reinier Zwitserloot: First of all, SVN/CVS/Any version control system are NOT BACKUP SYSTEMS. You should just nix...
Caz Mockett: Well I’m a PC girl (so shoot me), therefore these Mac solutions aren’t feasible for me....
Hani: I read your post with interest since I am currently deciding on how to backup the data on my MacBook. I...
Carlo: Wow, I am flattered to be used as inspiration! Really! This photo hit me immediately when I saw it, it is a...
Jure Cuhalev: Wow, really good pictures. Can’t wait to see the movie.
G: cool. so then you can use skpe to make calls?
Cybersam: Thanks. I can now Skype my partner while he is traveling o/s this month.

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My Bookmarks For May 5th - May 14th

Posted on May 14th, 2008

Kid666 Blog » The Geek affinity with Green - Tom Hughes-Croucher has a nice article up on Geeks being Green. Great inspiration for my BCL4 talk.
Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: abstract pointillist - Nice set of powerpoint base-artwork that I can use for future presentations
Make a Footer Stick to the Bottom of the Page - Great little piece of code for having a footer stick to the bottom of the page. Not what I used it for but mainly solved some other issues I had.
Wired's Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground - Interesting short article on the different type of geeks. Not very true or complete, but funny nevertheless.
FeedShaver - MarkNG made an interesting app during the telegraph developer weekend

My Bookmarks For April 25th - May 3rd

Posted on May 3rd, 2008

DAA to ISO Converter for OS X - Nifty little program that converts .daa files into ISO files. Perfect for when you accidentally downloaded a .daa file
PHP function for displaying relative dates in a human readable format - Cool little function that gives you these nice web2 date formats like "2 days ago" from a random timestamp
UK geek venues - Handy little site with loads of venues that can be used for geek events.
How to correctly insert a Flash into XHTML - Sounds simple right? Well, not that much. Good thing this site has written down how to do it properly.
Simon Maddox - Simon has started blogging and he already mentioned the geek dinner site twice!

My Bookmarks For April 19th - April 23rd

Posted on April 24th, 2008

Ooze Risotteria - Just found a very nice italian place through google by searching for "Risotto Restaurant London". They seem to have free wifi so we WILL be checking it out soon.
Twitter Twerp Scanner - A nice scanner for twitter that helps you get rid of those twerps with a million following and no followers.
Vimeo has some Terms and Conditions issues - I was reading the Forum on Vimeo when I ran into this little issue with the Vimeo Terms and Conditions
Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes - A couple of very common typography mistakes that I didn't know about
Free Sound Effects, Royalty Free Sound Effects, Nature Sounds - I found some royalty free sound effect files that we might be able to use for the next swedes

My Bookmarks For April 13th - April 19th

Posted on April 19th, 2008

Rant: Is Sweding a Corporate Plot? - Somebody thinks our torchwood swede is part of a big corporate conspiracy. Hell no!
"Editing Offline" in Final Cut Pro 4 - I am working on my FCP-fu and want to learn how to work with offline media, that way saving my macbook from a slow death every time I edit something.
We Were Centurions! - Straight from the centurion liberation front
Faceball: your face, our balls - Want to p lay faceball? Learnt he rules!
RockStarProgrammer - The Differences Between Mercurial and Git - Quite an interesting story with the difference between Mercurial and Git. Winner? I won't spoil it….

My Bookmarks For March 28th - April 13th

Posted on April 13th, 2008

The Rasterbator - Following Eelke's lead I might be interested in rasterbating some photos for a future office.
Fudzilla - Nice tech website.
The Ultimate getElementsByClassName - A simple JS function to get elements by classname. Needed it to get my bookmarklet to work.
Bookmarklet Builder - A handly little web-app that makes it easy to convert some javascript code into something that works as a bookmarklet.
Strung out hackers and BBC beanbags | The Register - A writeup of the Over The Air conference including a link to our Torchwood Swede!
iPhone has a hidden SATA interface -
Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms - A teacher together with his students made some interesting conclusions about data mining.
Sneaky peak of MOO’s latest product: The MightyCard - Great april fools joke.
Lightbox 2 - You see lightboxes everywhere these days, but that doesn't mean I don't love them. This library is helping me out with my new lifestream.
Find Your Friends « Flickr Blog - Flickr has added friend finding by using Gmail and Yahoo mail api's. Quite useful and very safe as you don't need to give away your gmail password to yahoo.
The iPhone: finally PWNED - This new tool manages to circumvent all code signing for the iphone, making it way easier to hack future bootloaders and firmwares. Really cool video with it.
Getting Photos from Lightroom to the iPhone - I was playing with Lightroom again and obviously I thought it necessary to sync my photos with my iPhone.
BBC iPlayer fix hacked again! - Nifty little Ruby script that I now use to download episodes from the BBC iPlayer before they disappear.
Top ten obsolete ports - CNET has a nice story on the top 10 obsolete computer ports. I don't really agree with firewire as I still have a couple of FireWire hard drive and will buy even more of them.

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