A word about del.icio.us: It is a great bookmarker/web inbox in GTD sense. It also is a very interesting social tool, do check out del.icio.us/popular/ — a list of most popular links of the last 24 hours. With enough social mass behind it this would comprise a very interesting list to watch. Also available in … Read more
David S. Bennahum: Abolishing the Electoral College David Bennahum explains the black magic behind electoral college in US. The “most democratic” country of all does not really have direct and fair presidential elections, but does like to rub other countries’ noses whenever they like… BTW, on top of what he points out as a very … Read more
Namazu: a Full-Text Search Engine Found this one by way of an article on Slashdot. Tried to compile it under Cygwin, but failed. After digging a little bit around, force converting ^M’s to proper UNIX line endings with sed -i ‘s/^M$//g’ (that’s Ctrl-V, Ctrl-M to get an ^M) in a few files, and finally manually … Read more
While I am still working on a “feature story” of MacOS X accounting packages, this is a resource for those desiring to setup GnuCash on a Mac. This approach uses Fink. I personally prefer DarwinPorts, but so far there’s no GnuCash port there. It should, however, be possible (albeit not as trivial) to compile GnuCash … Read more
I can’t call myself a very big fan of any particular sport. I am not going crazy over football (soccer) WorldCup or hockey World Champinoships, although I do enjoy to watch a good game or two. Naturally, when Russia is playing, and game promises to be an interesting one — I’m all for watching it … Read more
Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living room – Features – features.engadget.com I own neither a TiVo nor an MCE — I live in the wrong set of countries to be able to really enjoy all the power of scheduled program recording. I could, I suppose, use either of … Read more
Now that the heated debates about Konfabulator vs. Dashboard has become history, I’ve asked myself a very basic question: considering that ActiveDesktop on my Windows machine is rendered by MSIE (security risks notwithstanding), should it not be possible to create a webpage full of widgets without any help from Samurize? I am not looking for … Read more
Mitch Kapor’s Weblog: Chandler’s Network Architecture: Priorities Change An interesting take on peer-to-peer vs. central server-based architecture for Chandler. I would be more than delighted to see Chandler mature into if not an Outlook-killer, then at least a worthy replacement (or maybe continuation) of ECCO. Whatever milestones are available for public review right now are … Read more
Project GoneME Fixes Perceived Gnome UI Errors To continue ‘”fat linux” theme — a very nice take at what and why. While the US Political System parallel may be questionable, overall the post does stir-up some thoughts…
The moment I saw a mention on Slashdot that FreeBSD has oficially moved to X.Org X11 server I was running cvsup(1) on my port collection. A few hours later I was firing up xinit(1) to see if all was in order… and I was welcomed by a grey background and an X in the middle … Read more