This Friday I was informed that a member of my research group at Imperial and a friend, Professor Patrick Purcell passed away. I last saw him this past December while visiting London and, despite our efforts, we did not manage to meet, but for a few minutes in some corridor at the university. Our meeting […]
I admit it. I’ve liked microsoft’s split ‘ergonomic’ keyboards ever since they came out in the mid 90s. I had the original one. I loved the design, hated the feel. A couple of years later I replaced it with the smaller, more elegant Elite version that had the botched ‘cross’ arrangement for the arrow keys. […]
Microsoft Windows Vista came out just a few days ago. This is a major update to the world’s most popular Operating System and comes with numerous ‘improvements’ in both its underlying frameworks and components and its appearance and user-oriented features. One of the hightlights of Windows Vista, according to Microsoft, has been its renewed æsthetics […]
After many months of development and many more β releases, Adium 1.0 was released today! It's got loads of fixes and improvements and it's based on libgaim 2.0. Yay.
Errr, right. Despite his --- numerous --- amazingly bad evaluations (e.g. the importance of the 'net in the mid-1990s), his volatile opinions on important matters (e.g. patents), lack of ethics and piss-poor software, Bill Gates has time and again proven to be an important thinker when it comes to technology and its importance in society. It's a shame to see he's lost it. In this latest interview in Newsweek it's actually surprising to see how he can be so off-base. While there's no doubt that Apple is king in catchy marketing and shameless exaggeration of its value and its products' {importance, features} in its marketing campaigns, Microsoft is no spring chicken either ('Get the Facts' campaign anyone?). Its funny how Gates tries to engage in the pompous reality skewing and typical polemic that his once-ideologically-charged-turned-loser-turned-mighty-tech-salesman rival, the mercurial Steve Jobs, is famous for. Unfortunately for him Gates lacks the 'Charisma +834' rating that Jobs seems to possess. :) Το cosmix.org τρέχει εδώ και 8 ημέρες σε WordPress 2.1. Oι παρατηρητικοί θα πρόσεξαν πως αυτό σημαίνει πως τρέχει WordPress 2.1 από τη πρώτη στιγμή που κυκλοφόρησε. Το custom theme όπως και τα plugins είναι ευτυχώς — ακόμη — απολύτως συμβατά και η αναβάθμιση έγινε γρήγορα και χωρίς προβλήματα. Επειδή υπάρχει μεγάλος όγκος ενδιαφέροντων links […]