Wednesday, February 28, 2007
From PC World: Perhaps most exciting could be Firefox’s ability to support writing an e-mail in, for example, Gmail while offline, with the data sent later when a user is connected to the Internet again. Ultimately, Mozilla engineers are aiming for an integration between the browser and Web-based services that is as smooth running as [...]
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Thanks to Magical, now I don’t have to open iCal or go to the dashboard to get a decent calendar. Found this via AppleMatters.
Friday, February 23, 2007
‘She hit me on the head with the rock again.’ ‘I think I can confirm that that was my daughter.’ ‘Sweet kid.’ ‘You have to get to know her,’ said Arthur. ‘She eases up does she?’ ‘No,’ said Arthur, `but you get a better sense of when to duck.’ – From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to [...]
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
As usual, I have a backlog of a number of books to review, but I brought this one forward because it’s one of the most extraordinary books I’ve read. The book revolves around a poet, Ka, who returns to his homeland from exile – and travels to the remote town of Kars, ostensibly to investigate [...]
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Got to hand it to the Kiwis. Chased down 346/5 with one wicket and 3 balls to spare. What can I say? And I had plans for work this afternoon. Man proposed, McCullum and McMillian disposed, usually to the long-on fence.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Two years ago, I decided I was tired of Windows. I was already running Linux full time at lab, part-time at home, and nearly full-time on my trusty old Thinkpad T23. And so I did something that, back then, was quite unheard of – I started thinking about switching to a Mac. I knew not [...]
I think if there’s a technology equivalent of the poverty line, it should be having to live without subversion. Yet when I logged into a compute node assigned to us since we started clamouring for clock cycles, the first thing I see is: “bash: svn: command not found”. Ouch. What did I do to deserve [...]
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