Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29may2005
The Thunar project aims at developing a new file manager for the next major branch of Xfce.
18 Ways to Define a SETF Expander, Brian Mastenbrook knows them.
Smallthought, How far can you go, one small thought at a time? Avi Bryant’s new company.
So often these days eating Indian food
Passes for spirituality
I don’t meditate
I don’t pray
But I eat two samosas every day
— Dan Bern, Rolling Away
Sin City Comic-to-Screen Comparisons. I’m looking forward.
Zen Refactoring, a post on xp-list.
All this leads me to the conclusion that “Enterprise Software” is a polite way of saying shitty legacy systems and overly complex requirements. — Michael Koziarski
Why “Enterprise” Development is Hard, Koz speaks.
Workroom in a Box, decentral clusterable workstations for schools.
Abusing Amazon images by Nat Gertler. Nice hack!
The Unsolvable Math Problem, George Bernard Dantzig (RIP) did it.
Light-sabre duel puts two in hospital, two Star Wars fans are in a critical condition in hospital after duelling with lightsabres made by filling fluorescent light tubes with petrol. D’oh!
Coffeeshop Turns off Wi-Fi on Weekends, sad but true.
Why smart people defend bad ideas by Scott Berkun.
Beyond Relational Databases: There is more to data access than SQL by Margo Seltzer.
She’s shaking down it’s ever over and done
so kick me, give me
then I’ll know
— Elliot Smith, Cupid’s Trick
Games We’d Like to See, Part One, nice ideas.
ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification, E4X adds native XML datatypes to the ECMAScript language, extends the semantics of familiar ECMAScript operators for manipulating XML objects and adds a small set of new operators for common XML operations, such as searching and filtering.
New Web Developer Features in Deer Park Alpha 1, including new CSS3 stuff, SVG support and JS extensions.
Outlook vs Evolution vs Kontact: an e-mail client comparison, or thrice the same screenshots. I think we need a new groupware paradigm.
I love him who is a free spirit and a free heart: thus his head is only the bowels of his heart, but his heart drives him to his downfall. — Nietzsche
iSudoku, is an implementation of the japanese game “Sudoku” or “Su Doku” for Mac OS X. While it looks very good and has a good feel (including keyboard control), it’s no fun to play because it doesnt allow invalid numbers to be entered, making brute-forcing far too easy (don’t kill your number keys, though).