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Links for December 16th :

• Glyphish – Great icons for great iPhone applications –
• NHA Mortgage-Backed Securities –
• python-dateutil – Labix – I hate dates. This makes things slightly less horrible.
• Time Machine: Setup on and restore from a NAS device – Mac OS X Hints –
• The Capacitor Plague – Crappy capacitors kill your fancy pants hardware

Links for November 3rd :

• How to: Configure a Server to Listen on a Specific TCP Port (SQL Server Configuration Manager) –
• Re: BUG #4771: Postgres wont start – "something" is taking away access rights to the PostgreSQL Data Directory/ the PostgreSQL Configuration files. Thanks Windows! You suck.
• magnum-py – Magnum is a pure python HTTP server that is fast and efficient with resources. It is ideal for serving dynamic python-generated pages.
• CMHC bubble is 100% made in Canada –
• Bank of Canada – Credit Conditions – Household Credit – According to the Bank of Canada, the amount of National Housing Act Mortgage-Backed Securities outstanding as of September 2009 was $281B. This reflects an increase of $89B (46.8%) in just twelve months. In comparison, the amount of mortgage credit on the books of Canadian Chartered Banks was $459B, a decrease of $27.1B (-5.6%) in the last twelve months. This is actually a slight improvement from the numbers posted for August. However, remember that the CMHC also insures about 40% of the mortgages the banks hold.

Links for October 26th :

• It’s that simple — Greater Fool – The Troubled Future of Real Estate –
• New rocket engine could make trips to Mars realistic (39 days) –
• jwz – Dear Palm, it’s just not working out. –
• Successful pyevolve multiprocessing speedup for Genetic Programming | Pyevolve –
• Ottawa’s bubble — Greater Fool – The Troubled Future of Real Estate – With house prices rising, and incomes not, with bidding wars in many centres and real estate values at a record level, one question looms: Where’s the money coming from? How are buyers, especially newbies, pulling this off?

Links for March 21st :

• Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » How Rich Countries Die –
• Tell "apt-get" not to install "recommends" packages – Debian (and Ubuntu) will install recommends packages by default. Turn it off to save space
• appengine-monkey – Monkeypatches for the App Engine environment to Make It Normal
• django-rosetta – A Django application that eases the translation process of your Django projects
• The NHA MBS Guide –