Stupid Gmail. I hate Gmail. Stop threading messages. Since when should an email client make sense? Stop labeling messages and start putting them in folders. Since when should anything be organized? Stop giving me so much storage. Since when do online services offer something valuable? They keep adding more storage faster than I can keep… Continue reading I Hate Gmail
Author: Philip Cain
Ninja Master of the Series of Tubes, musician, audio engineer and geek. More about Philip...
Google News RSS Feeds
So most of you know that I’ve been using www.bloglines.com to read about 20 RSS feeds, both blogs and news, for some time. You can see many of them in the Blogroll to the right. Big deal, I’ve still got information overload syndrome. But now Google just released a technology that NOT ONLY lets you… Continue reading Google News RSS Feeds
Work Subroutine
Put this little subroutine into your robot worker to make it more human like. Don’t bother me about the fact that it is a hybrid of DOS and BASH scripting. That happened because, well… see for yourself what happened to my /proc/brain. :START do work if work = $good goto START fi if work =… Continue reading Work Subroutine
“Give me AJAX or give me death”
After reading the recent Wired news story claiming a web revolution based on AJAX (Slashdot coverage), I’m excited to see where web developers will take us. Although I really like the direction KDE is taking, most futurists agree that high-powered desktops will eventually be obsoleted by low-powered networked computers and thin-clients. AJAX is the perfect… Continue reading “Give me AJAX or give me death”
KDE4 On The Chopping Block
KDE developers are hacking away at 4, which is now in /trunk, because 3.5 was moved to a branch. There is a lot of talk about simplification, speed and eye-candy. KDE4 will hopefully blow Windows Vista out of the water (at least in my book, so that I don’t feel tempted at all to use… Continue reading KDE4 On The Chopping Block
Usability – Real and Virtual
Alright, fine! I’m back and I should be posting more often, but I’m lazy. Has it ever bothered you that software developers are often terrible at designing interfaces? These guys are, and I am too. But software developers aren’t the only ones… Microwave Ovens are the worst offenders of keypads on appliances. There is no… Continue reading Usability – Real and Virtual
Goodbye $25 decades-lasting driver’s license; hello evil expensive eight-years-only National ID
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/84765.php IANACT, but what’s next? National RFID tags connected to the unabridged demographic data collected by surveys/contests/malware/credit cards/census (sold to the US Federal government for trillions of taxpayers’ dollars and heralded as “National Security”)? *I am not a conspiracy theorist
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Internet Everywhere
Captain’s Log: StarDate, er… June 25th, 2005. Location: the ocean. Technically speaking, Pacific Beach in sunny San Diego. I’m blogging in the ocean. Oh yeah. Peace out.
California dreaming, racks, WikiTeam
I’m going to be in San Diego for the next few days. I hope my guitars (I’m taking 3) survive the Yuma desert on the way out there. The Priority band (website’s down, so no link) is playing for a camp at Point Loma. I should be excited, but I’ve done this before, and last… Continue reading California dreaming, racks, WikiTeam