links, random thoughts, various opinions
Phoenix. My browser of choice now.
“Phoenix is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Chimera, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform… It’s a lean and fast browser that doesn’t skimp on features.”
Why is it that the music video stations outside of North America actually play music videos? mtve.
Cool windows utility, c/o of Evhead - Startup Control Panel
Okay now I’m finding some ice (better restaurants ) - or perhaps like most of my opinions, an initial thought I believe to be a fact evolves into a reality which appears with sufficient information.
*There’s no ice in Norway.* I’m an ice cruncher, especially with Cola’s (the only thing I have in common with Bill Clinton). Two weeks here and I’ve never come across a movie theatre or restaurant that serves ice with their pop. Coke/Pepsi is too sweet without it. Even the big gulp fountain machine at the […]
Cool Tunes a colleague in Bergen turned me on to - Ugress. You can download some of their music off their site, check out ‘turning wheel’ - short and sweet. I think I’ll buy their newest album - Resound [Ugress].
From the National Post [their links never stay fixed for too long] - Ecstasy./ “Just one night’s use of the drug ecstasy can cause long-lasting damage to the brain that may lead to the early onset of Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, according to a study published today in the journal Science.”
The Odd Couple, Bush-Blair synergy - why?
“In that event, it will come down to something else, something that is perhaps the simple lynchpin of the Bush-Blair connection. That simple thing is the conviction that we are actually involved in a profound global struggle in which Saddam Hussein’s regime is quite clearly on the side of […]
An Open Letter to the Members of Congress/ “The case against the war is simple, clear and strong. The Administration calls it a chapter in the war on terror, but Iraq has no demonstrated ties either to the September 11 attack on the United States or to the Al Qaeda network that launched it. The […]
Israeli-Arab Hero Is Praised, but Not Embraced.
“He was a fellow Arab. But Rami, who is 17 and Israeli, thought the stranger was Palestinian, and feared he was a suicide bomber.”
My Next Company Car.
History of Hypertext.
“The history of hypertext begins in July of 1945. President Roosevelt’s science advisor during World War II, Dr. Vannevar Bush, proposes Memex in an article titled As We May Think published in The Atlantic Monthly. In the article, Bush outlines the ideas for a machine that would have the capacity to store textual […]
MacAarthur Fellows for 2002.
“In all our programs, we are committed to nurturing those who are a source of new knowledge and ideas, have the courage to challenge inherited orthodoxies and to take intellectual, scientific, and cultural risks. For over two decades, the MacArthur Fellows Program has been a vital part of the Foundation?s efforts to […]
Bush Sends Troops To West Nile. The Onion:
“My fellow Americans, an enemy from overseas has attacked us in our own land, waging biological warfare against us on our home soil,” Bush said in a nationally televised speech from the Oval Office. “We must send a strong message to our enemies in the West Nile region […]
Two more things I like about travelling: BBC World on TV, that distinctive jingle of theirs reminds me of hotels around the world as I watch it every morning; Number 2, free copies of the International Herald Tribune or the Financial Times, both great newspapers I never take the time to read back home. Given […]
Still in Norway by the way. Now till the fifth of October. That amazing weather has given way to northern European drizzle and chills - I feel at home.
RSS in JIRA. A post mentioning how a bug/feature tracking system outputs new issues in RSS format. In our business we would normally collect information in our database and then build custom (ie. lengthy to develop) reports that aggegate this information. It would be interesting to instead publish this real time vessel movement information - […]
Well my travel home plans didn’t pan out quite the way I expected. It’s all good though…some new work prospects and some logistics related to some meetings in Europe next week mean it’s easier for me to stay put in Europe for awhile. This weekend the weather in Bergen has been amazing. It’s getting a […]
I’m on the road tomorrow and all weekend - off to Bergen, London, Vancouver…I’ll leave you with the latest ponderable summary on September 11 and Iraq, put together succintly as usual by Derek. Lessons Unlearned.
“…We cannot forget that. The U.S. is not to blame for September 11, any more than the Allies at Versailles were […]
MultiZilla. This is cool.