Playing around with my Canon 60mm macro lens and a tool from the garage (yes, this really was purchased for garage use, not the kitchen.)

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FREE-411 launches Dial DIR-ECT-IONS. Handy.     #>

Making Myself at Home (temporarily) on XP. Linked to for the awesome stuff on Cygwin under XP.     #>

YUI 2.5.0 Released — Big upgrades to DataTable, new Layout Manager, Flickr-style multi-file Uploader, and more. Wow, quite a lot more since the last time I looked at this.     #>

phpMyID is a standalone, single user, OpenID Identity Provider. If you wanted to have an OpenID login but don't trust other providers for authentication then run your own, it's very easy to setup on your own web server.     #>

OFA: Optimal Flexibile Architecture for Oracle installations. Sent to me by Dan in response to a question about a layout at work that has been having trouble (we've been having some disk partitions fill up and trust me, with Oracle that's a bad thing.) Also worth noting from the same site: Oracle Naming Conventions.     #>

Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? Assuming you don't have health problems it appears you can.     #>

getVids - User Video Downloader. Perl script to download every video a particular user on YouTube has available.     #>

These are really great, someone spent the time to do stop-motion animations with Lego characters, set to the voice of Eddie Izzard doing his stand-up routines.     #>

World Sunlight Map, a world map showing current sunlight and cloud cover. The cloud cover bit is especially cool.     #>

NASA Eclipse Page is really quite nice for all things eclipse (Solar and Lunar). Looking at the Javascript Lunar Eclipse Explorer will let you look at historical dates as well as into the future (especially cool they let you see it for your specific location with either a city or a set of GPS coordinates).     #>