Just noticed that last.fm got a real face lift, it’s soo shiny… The downside: it take a tad longer to load the pages than on the old site even in Opera (the browser… not any section on last.fm). But from my quick look, apart from the new look, there is some good improvement. I think they managed to making it even more social by increasing the personal value that in turn increases the network value, which is a good thing.
Looks like the business that call themselves Domain Registry of America is once again sending out their scam letter trying to fool people to renew their domain registrations and transfer them to DRoA, despite the fact they are already registered with another registrar. Please don’t do business with them!
I have no idea why they think I would perceive it as a good idea to pay their 26 Euro per year instead of 15 U.S. Dollar I currently do over at directNIC. DirectNIC is great, they include a lot of free services that other would try to monetize (yes, I hate that word) in one way or another, and as a New Orleans based business they even lived through Katrina without closing down.
I’ve recently become involved in a project where the client application will be developed using the Mozilla Gecko engine and framework. I’m not directly working on the client, but as lead developer I’m at least expected to be familiar with the underlying technology.
I do have played around with XUL and JavaScript before, a long time ago, but at that time the only way to deploy applications was to first install the Mozilla suite (Firefox was almost non-existing back then, or at least unheard of) and then your application on top of it. That meant tons of application specific stuff to the Mozilla suite that your application never had any need for.
Enter the XULRunner — a runtime environment for XUL based application.
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Wow! I just say woow. Sometimes you discover great things by accident, and wonder why someone haven’t told you about it before. So what is it that got me so flabbergasted? The short story: it’s fish.
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Tried out the new Google Reader this morning, and it’s “kinda neat”. A little bit slugish feedback but I guess that will improve. I didn’t managed to figure out the Google-twist to the RSS reader concept until I started to add feeds to it. Yes it’s one of these aha-moments.
Well, I will probably continue usining Sage and other aggregators — at least for my most often read feeds — but the Google Reader is a nice complement to the Gmail experience.
I’m kinda tired of reading articles with headlines like Linux not ready for the Desktop and 2004 Won’t Be the Year of the Linux Desktop sitting in front of my main desktop computer that have run Linux the last two years. But when you read those articles you realize how high standards people has towards desktops, and in fact acording too those standards MS Windows has never been ready for the desktop.
Oh, yeah. Happy new year, and all that crap.