pmik's blogUseless knowledge in one convenient place(Untitled)- March 20, 2005 The Tailor as a hacker. English cut is a blog from Thomas Mahon, Bespoke Savile Row Tailor, London. I've been reading Thomas's site since Hugh McLeod dropped it on me. Clive Thomson from Slate properly identified why I think it's so appealing... "After all, suits have many of the things that geeks particularly appreciate: Intense levels of engineering, an obsession with structural elegance, physics, totally wicked gear that's used to create them, topographic geometry, and materials science that.http://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/20.html#a1119 (Untitled)- March 20, 2005 Programs Designed For USB Drives. Jeremy Wagstaff has a great collection of programs (or ways to run programs) off USB drives. Chatinstant messaging, Browsers, Operating Systems, PIMsorganisers, Email, Encryption, Office, Music, and Web Authoring- I have a few of these on my perpetually hacked up Shuffle so when I visit foreign computers I can get stuff done without installing anything. MAKE: Bloghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/20.html#a1118 (Untitled)- March 20, 2005 FreeCycle. FreeCycle is a hub of email lists from different cities where you can post WANTED, OFFERED, or TAKEN messages to get, give and look for free stuff. There are over 1 million members out there in over 2,500 communities. You have to go and pick up the stuff in person, but that's not a bad deal at all. There has been some talk of a Maker-like list where you could offer up usage of tools and equipment, but I think the FreeCycle list(s) might work. You could post OFFERED: Use of DNA...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/20.html#a1117 (Untitled)- March 19, 2005 Google reaches out to open-source community. The site is aimed at providing the open-source community with software tools developed and used internally by Google, contributing code that external developers might find useful. Computerworld Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/18.html#a1116 (Untitled)- March 17, 2005 iWork05.0.1. Keynote 2.0.1 addresses isolated issues that may have affected reliability for some customers. Pages 1.0.1 addresses isolated issues that may have affected reliability for some customers and resolves an issue related to deleting complete pages. That looks like a change log published by Apple. ;-)... vowe dot nethttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/17.html#a1115 (Untitled)- March 16, 2005 Do it yourself "Death Clock". I don't mean to be morbid, but I thought this was a fun clock to make to remind me not to waste time (and always opt for a faster computer)...Here are instructions on making a countdown clock for your Mac which gives a "rough" estimate how much time you have left before you kick the bucket- it's based on a few stats and health factors. MAKE: Bloghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/16.html#a1114 (Untitled)- March 16, 2005 Your Next OS: Google. A cnet editorial posits that Google may be well on its way to developing a complete suite of internet-based services that could act as a computing environment for any thin client that's capable of accessing it. And Microsoft may be planning a similar move. OSNewshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/16.html#a1113 (Untitled)- March 16, 2005 Google offers OS X-themed frontend to service The Macintosh News Networkhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/16.html#a1112 (Untitled)- March 16, 2005 Google and Their Server Farm Slashdot:http://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/16.html#a1111 (Untitled)- March 16, 2005 PJ: iPod not Apple's only growth avenue The Macintosh News Networkhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118928/2005/03/16.html#a1110 |