Once upon a time there was a man called Cleveland Heep. He works as a superintendent in a housing estate. He oversees. He cleans. He takes out the trash. He’s the kind of guy that you would trust with anything. He takes his job seriously and seems reasonably happy with his simple life. In theContinue reading “Beyond Teasing”
Monthly Archives: July 2006
A Home in the Cloud
Jon Udell: But the desktop isn’t the battleground it once was. I float like a butterfly from Windows to OS X to Linux. My home is in the cloud, and that’s the next frontier for the champions of free and open commodity infrastructure. The “cloud” Jon refers to here is the internet(s), the web. IContinue reading “A Home in the Cloud”
Net Neutrality
I’m not going to say anything on the issue, I’m just going to point you to three videos from the Daily Show (one of my favourite American TV shows) that comment on it. To fully understand the reference made in the third video you should have seen of the recent Apple ads (like this one).Continue reading “Net Neutrality”
Interesting Developements in VoIP
Two interesting things were announced in the past two days from two different VoIP companies: SIPPhone and Skype. SIPPhone yesterday announced you can now make free calls to mobile and landline numbers in 60 countries. Or more precisely, you can make free calls to mobiles and landlines in Canada, China, Cyprus, Guam, Hong Kong, Malawi,Continue reading “Interesting Developements in VoIP”
Around the Corner
I live on a what, at first sight, looks a very quiet, small street. That’s what it looks like if you walk there and are only there for a couple of minutes, maybe an hour. If you stay any longer, like me — I’ve stayed there for almost 10 months now — you will notice that this small streetContinue reading “Around the Corner”
Vim 7
Yesterday I decided to install Vim 7 on my iBook (also available for unices and windows of course) and I was surprised about the nice improvements they’ve made. My favourite new features: Tabs, you can now have multiple tabs and quickly switch between them. Spell checker More advanced code completion. The regular completion is stillContinue reading “Vim 7”
Redland on OS X Problem and Solution
This is probably of no interest to you, but I’ll post it so that people who run into the same problem will be able to find the solution through Google. For my project I’m using Redland librdf, which is a RDF library written in C that has wrapper for Python and many other languages (I’mContinue reading “Redland on OS X Problem and Solution”
Fun with Archive.org
I was trying to find some old sites of mine on Archive.org today. It’s quite fun to do that actually (for me anyway). Sadly I wasn’t able to retrieve my oldest website I ever created (which used to live at http://huizen.dds.nl/~zhemel). I remember I used to run a website listing free stuff on the internetContinue reading “Fun with Archive.org”
Blogoforum
Denis Krukovsky brought Blogoforum to my attention. A forum application that has a lot of features I described in Rethinking Discussion Boards and a little bit of Forum 2.0. There have been some tag-based forums before, but either they died or they aren’t really developed anymore. Blogoforum is actually quite nice. It adopts the ideaContinue reading “Blogoforum”
GLS3
GLS³: The GNU/Linux Semantic Storage System (GLS³) is a solution designed to facilitate the management and retrieval of your data. It is a solution that distances you from thinking about Where you store your data to What your data is. With GLS³, you can organize and retrieve your data based on their semantics, based onContinue reading “GLS3”
