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As a programmer I rely on PHP and MySQL to get my web projects done (this blog included). Though I have upgraded to Leopard a week ago, I just took the time today to re-install my working environment. On Tiger it was a piece of cake, since I just used the wonderful packages fron entropy.ch [...]
I’ve seen many pieces of over-engineered and under-delivering stuff on my time (Java Swing comes to mind), but nothing compares to the templating system for the “new” Blogger. Even more so, since templating is something that is supposed to be easy and within the reach of non-technical users.
What we have instead? A mess of XML [...]
” (…) we chide, criminalize, sue, damn our readers for doing what readers have always done, which is sharing books they love—only now they’re doing it electronically. You know, there’s no solution that arises from telling people to stop using computers in the way that computers were intended to be used. They’re copying machines. So [...]
Do you often browse the Itunes Store aimlessly? Do you happen, now and then, to came upon some cool new record or audiobook that you consider for a future purchase?
Well, I do. And it frustates me to no end that the iTunes Store lacks the capabillity to bookmark a particular page and return to it [...]
Apparently there is an Amiga scene, awaiting patiently the next release of the Amiga OS, new Amiga machines and what have you.
There is also a company called Napster, that sells music subcriptions. It has more than 100 customers, I’m told.
WTF?
Amiga was a now obsolete brand of home computers, used around 1986-1995 that has [...]
