Archive for February, 2008

You often hear people complaining about how much money someone else makes. They talk about politicians or football players or anyone else who makes a lot of money (actually, politicians don’t really get that much money). They are envious and want to have that much money too.
But when was the last time you heard anyone […]

This is not going to be only about the systems themselves, rather about general (desktop) working environment. As I had to spend substantial amount of time working with Windows recently, I feel qualified enough to share some insights:
What I like in Windows:

Total Commander: it really rocks, it remembers my ftp connections with passwords, it allows […]

When I saw the link to “badge creator” (marked as new) on flickriver, I knew I just had to add that to my blog. But somehow the side column was too long already…
Making the whole thing wider, adding the second side column and adding my flickriver favourites was the first change (the most work on […]

Why oh why do native speakers suck at spelling so much?
English people are notorious for making the most basic mistakes. Your/you’re and their/they’re/there win shared first place for the most annoying and stupid misspelling. It twists the meaning and shows that whoever wrote that can’t even grasp the absolute basics. Also, if your keyboard features […]

As we all know, Flickr is the best photo sharing site (if you haven’t heard it yet, Microsoft is buying Yahoo, who own Flickr… so there’s a very real possibility that Microsoft will kill Flickr, which would make me hate them even more). Almost unbelievably, the flickr source is only 60k lines of php and […]