Monthly Archives: June 2004

A couple of months ago I made a post “about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation”:http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2003/10/03/what-many-people-don-t-know-about-bill-gates. All I did was copy a bit of text that I found on some weblog that told about the good work they do etc. But during the last months quite a few people have commented on this post byContinue reading “Some People Can’t Read”

For those unfortunate who haven’t been invited to Gmail (I pity you), I’ll put up a couple of screenshots that might give you a slight idea of how Gmail works and why it is better than any webbased mail I have ever used. I’ll not be talking about “accessibility”:http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/04/10/gmail-accessibility or “the privacy issues”:http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com, just aboutContinue reading “The Gmail Experience”

I was reading this “’Favorite jokes’”:http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/06/18/favorite-jokes post Mark Pilgrim made and there are a couple of really great jokes in there (in particular in the comments). Here are my favourites: bq. Three kids are walking down the street, called Shit, Fuck Off and Your Manners. For some, unexplained reason, Shit collapses. Your Manners stays toContinue reading “Some Jokes”

I turned 21 today. Hooray for me! The first one to give a birthday present was “PWG-Lucas”:http://www.foruminsider.com/forums/index.php?showuser=211 who sent me a GMail invite, thanks Lucas :)

For those that are about to create their first website (statistically, most probably a personal website): Skip it. Either skip it or keep it a secret. And if you’re not going to keep it a secret, be sure to remove it after you’ve moved on. Also after you think you’re finished, go visit a coupleContinue reading “Your First Website”

“Hello, I’m Cindy and I’ll interview you today.”  — “Could you tell me about this company a little in advance please?” “Sure, the company is called ‘We Don’t Do a Thing Like Our Lifes Depend On It Incorporated’, we’re proud of the name, as it covers what we do so well. Which, as you probably canContinue reading “WDDaTLOLDOI Inc.”

As I felt I wanted to post less in quantity and started to do longer articles I still felt the urge to do quick posts with interesting links I found. A solution for this was to save them and post them in one batch once in a while, however links quickly outdate. Then I foundContinue reading “Changed site setup a little”

“Mark Pilgrim”:http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/06/02/apostrophe talks about how his writing and hearing editor’s comments on his “Dive into Python”:http://www.diveintopython.org book made him more sensitive for spelling and grammatical errors. As a non-native speaker I’m sure I’ve made many, many mistakes. In the article Mark points to the Brittish “’Apostrophe Protection Society’”:http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk which thankfully lists all apostrophe (for thoseContinue reading “Capostrophe”

* “Broken Windows”:http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/broken_windows is about why users using Windows are flooded with virusses and spyware and Mac users are not.* “Making An Operating System Faster”:http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/optimizations/ gives tips on how to optimize OS X.* “Desktop Manager”:http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net is an open source virtual desktop manager for OS X. It allows you to have multiple desktops and quickly switchContinue reading “Noteworthy Mac related”

“Sun for the first time explicitely said Java will be open sourced”:http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39149502,00.htm. When this will happen is still very unsure, to quote the ZDNet article: bq. “We haven’t worked out how to open-source Java — but at some point it will happen,” Srinivas said. However, he noted “it might be today, tomorrow or two years down theContinue reading “Java to be open sourced”