I was looking today at a post on Engadget called “Desktop Evolution: Windows and Mac OS Visual Comparison Through the Years” and expected to see how, over the years, the desktop became more and more beautiful and usable. But I was extremely under-impressed. Windows Vista looks nice but nothing really exciting (also, I can’t ignore [...]
Social networks are the big thing these days. Recently I joined two social networks: LinkedIn and Facebook. LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network, was fun to play with at first. I, too, joined the “add your friends” race and added as many as I could find (I didn’t just add anyone, though. Only people I actually [...]
One of the latest most talked about “wars” in the software world is the office document formats war. Both formats are XML based, and both are used to describe the miscellaneous office documents like Word and Excel documents. The OpenDocument format was developed by a committee and is already an ISO standard. OOXML, on the [...]
Every once in a while someone comes to me asking if I want to participate on a new idea. I guess everyone wants their “million dollar exit”. Naturally, so do I. Unfortunately I haven’t made any progress lately with ideas, but I’m not pushing it – when the right idea comes, I’ll have all the [...]
The old toilet seat “fight between the sexes” will probably always be a mystery to me. While I always return the seat to its previous position when I’m in someone else’s place, I wouldn’t mind lifting it and lowering it back as much as needed in my own home. Having said that, it turns out [...]
I wrote twice already (first, second posts) about Steorn, the company that offered free energy to the world. On July 7th, Steorn were supposed to show a demo of their free energy product, but the demo unit failed miserably. Naturally, the skeptics were very happy to say “I told you so” to everyone who actually [...]
I previously linked to an article about what happens to your body if you drink a coke. Now there’s a new study that “suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA”. Reading this was the last straw for me. Up [...]
Since I started working out, I had to regulate my sleep more. I do my workouts in the morning, and workouts are extremely exhausting if I don’t get a good night sleep. I currently sleep 7 to 8 hours every night. During weekdays I get up at 5:15am, so this means I’m usually asleep by [...]
If you’re looking for a crappy search engine, there’s one right at acrappysearchengine.com (go ahead… click it… it’s not a joke). This search engine gives you results mildly related to, but not exactly, what you were looking for. The inventors’ reasoning is: How can you really claim to explore the web when your search engine [...]
I previously mentioned Sony’s not-so-customer-friendly past behavior (previous post link). In short, Sony always wanted to create their own, non-compatible standards, so they could comfortably lock-in consumers to their products. The range of products this applies to is extremely big, which is to me a proof that this is a company strategy. Here’s why I [...]