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Wed - September 13, 2006Confusing but cooliTunes 7 debuted last night--stupour: aluminium buttons, new scroll-bar
buttons, a whole new theme. Not that it hasn’t happended before.
Posted at 12:07 PM Back to | Read more Fri - August 25, 2006VersionTracker 10 alreadyGod, VT turns 10 already! Quadras, Performas and
Power Macs 7200. Hotline communities, message boards and 14400 modems. Netscape,
Altavista and ICQ. How time flies!
Posted at 01:26 AM Back to | Read more Wed - August 2, 2006Google AnalyticsI installed Google Analytics, played with it and now I procrastinate its
deinstallation. I much preffer VersionTracker’s (paid version) raw look
and barebone efficiency—and the fact that its no-frills html output is
easily parsable with UNIX tools.
Posted at 05:51 PM Back to | Read more Sun - June 11, 2006YouTubeBlogging for the lazy and the clueless now gets easier than ever: just
browse YouTube and pick something for your copy-paste blog. And it could get
easier even than that, really, you only have to find a sucker to blog for you
and -- what do you know! -- effortless blogging.
Posted at 11:57 PM Back to | Read more Fri - May 26, 2006FinallyAfter (dark) ages of phone banking only, Raiffeisen finally got their internet
banking all set and working. If you're a client you may want to
activate it during your next trip to their office. In a decade or so maybe even
mighty ING will find out about this internet banking thing and give it a try,
who knows.
Posted at 12:04 PM Back to | Read more Tue - April 4, 20065% originalIt seems that only a dismal 5% of all blogs are producing original
content (I suppose the rest of 95% are copy-paste blogs, linkdumps and
aggregators) — says a recent study released by The Project for Excellence
in Journalism. [via Owlspotting]
Posted at 12:48 PM Back to | Read more Fri - March 10, 2006CommentsIt seems that the old comments went missing. I hope HaloScan will fix
this, but I don't hold my breath.
Posted at 04:41 PM Back to | Read more Fri - February 17, 2006Airbag on DvorakOn Airbag Longboard: "Dvorak thinks Apple will drop MacOS X and adopt
Windows. Moron." For a minute there I wondered why everybody uses this
word when it comes to Dvorak (including myself, a couple of days ago)? Because
it's the best choice, I guess.
Update: Joy of Tech chimes in. Apparently they found a better word: psychiatry. Not bad. Posted at 06:06 PM Back to | Read more Wed - January 18, 2006RSS up againThe Net can be a wonderful place sometimes: Ovidiu Roatis
fixed my buggy feed from right across the ocean. I don't know him in person and
he doesn't know me — we only read each-other's blog. A big THANK YOU goes
to the guy in the Big Apple! The first shot of vodka is on me.
Posted at 06:14 PM Back to | Read more Mon - January 16, 2006Botched RSSI know my main feed is botched, thanks to iBlog developer who thought
that a quick release for the podcasters is more important than a stable release
for the rest of us. Stuff the validator throws at me: Your feed appears to be
encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII". Great.
Posted at 08:37 PM Back to | Read more Mon - September 26, 2005No PSP this timeI walked every single Dixons, Virgin Megastore and HMV on Oxford
Street only to face a cruel destiny: no Sony Playstation Portable.
"Sold out." "By reservation only." "Are you on the backlog list?" "Would you
like to pre-order?"
No PSP. None. Not one! Posted at 09:54 PM Back to | Read more Tue - September 6, 2005Nope, sorryRegarding all those "cristian miracles" misspelled Google queries:
sorry, I don't do that.
Posted at 12:21 PM Back to | Read more Mon - September 5, 2005Forget it, peopleTo all those guys searching "adobe illustrator vs microsoft publisher"
listen here: it won't happen. Not ever. Forget it.
Posted at 01:28 AM Back to | Read more Tue - July 19, 2005RSS mangledYep, my main RSS feed got mangled somehow. Will rebuild whole site with
this occasion. Malfunctions expected during the process. Thanks, Cip.
Posted at 02:18 PM Back to | Read more Tue - February 22, 2005Gotham RoundedQuerying Google about Gotham Rounded reveals Kit.blog in poll position
today. Sorry about that, guys! Mixed emotions on Typophile forum, also.
Posted at 11:47 PM Back to | Read more Wed - February 16, 2005.Mac downI got an 403 "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access
/cpaul/iblog/ on this server" this morning while trying to access my Kitblog
page. WebDav access works, mail works but parts of .Mac are
down.
...And now up again. Posted at 09:46 AM Back to | Read more Sun - February 6, 2005Gmail invites flood50 Gmail invites here, ready to be sent. If you need one shoot an email
or post a comment.
Posted at 01:44 PM Back to | Read more Tue - February 1, 2005Great, thanks!From: "Neddie Uewb" <supportshuseke@tett.org>
Subject: Buy 5 Rolex and get shipping Free! Posted at 04:16 PM Back to | Read more Mon - January 17, 2005MmmmFlickr is down, down, down. Hope it gets back on
its feet by morning. Our morning, that is.
Posted at 02:01 AM Back to | Read more Mon - January 3, 2005Bye-bye linksThe links from my sideblog code vanished... let's see, maybe they will
reappear in a day or two.
Posted at 03:57 AM Back to | Read more Sat - December 25, 2004Wed - December 22, 2004Shifting paradigmsI am intrigued by certain dynamics in naming: category denominations
shifting meaning. Half a century ago companies named with 'Mobil(e)' were about
fuel, today the word marks the territory of those into wireless communications,
and in a couple decades the name will shift again, I suppose – to wearable
computers tech companies, maybe.
Posted at 09:33 AM Back to | Read more Sat - December 18, 2004Bridget Jones reloadedBridget Jones, the sequel – to be avoided. 'The Edge of Reason' is
a surprisingly apt name, after all. Have a nice dinner instead. Soup, cake,
something.
Posted at 11:42 PM Back to | Read more Tue - December 7, 2004Freedom« I thought I can organize freedom, how Scandinavian of me! »
Björk, Homogenic
Posted at 12:58 AM Back to | Read more Sat - December 4, 2004Annoying and uselessBad copy annoys me. But pointless ads – horribly written and
executed – are a real pain in the ass, especially when you cannot avoid
them. Like the one running in a local mall multiplex cinema advertising (in 3D
metal lines of copy)... "buy movie tickets." To a bunch of people who just
bought movie tickets in order to see the movie. Idiotic.
Posted at 11:30 PM Back to | Read more Fri - December 3, 2004Coca-Cola wants to be coolCola-Cola Light has here in Romania this sales promotion where lucky
buyers can win – among other things – Apple PowerBooks. Imagine
that! I guess it's just a random shot at trying to be cool, because I don't see
any kind of affinity between the two brands. I'm an Apple zealot to the bone,
but even I have doubts that throwing a user onto a different computing platform
just like that is such a great idea. They should've go with some Sony VAIOs.
Update: The PowerBooks are advertised as awards on the bottle label, but they're nowhere to be found in the official sales promotion rules. Is this fishy or I'm missing something? Posted at 10:41 AM Back to | Read more Thu - December 2, 2004Largest design company on earthThe largest printing house on earth is Tetra Pak. That's a surprise
isn't it? Ok, now: do you think you can name the largest design company in the
world? No way. It probably is Samsung. They have 470 designers on board. 470!!!
Posted at 01:05 PM Back to | Read more Tue - November 30, 2004SideTrackThere is software you cannot live without once you are hooked. Such a
dirty beast proved to be SideTrack, a System Preferences module that
enables your trackpad to be used for scrolling and other things. I didn't give
it much thought until this morning, when my beta expired and I found my life to
be miserable without it. I couldn't find my credit card fast enough to buy it
– I was expecting it to cost around $10, it was $15. If you're a PowerBook
or iBook diehard, give it a try. It'll get you hooked before you notice.
Posted at 10:04 AM Back to | Read more Mon - November 29, 2004Romanian electionsA thin middle class votes for the opposition while the big slice of the
social-economic pie-chart goes with the governing party. White collar votes vs
blue collar votes all over again.
Posted at 09:45 AM Back to | Read more Tue - November 23, 2004The articulate incompetent"Only intuition can save you from the most dangerous individual of all,
the articulate incompetent." - Robert Bernstein
Posted at 11:19 PM Back to | Read more Fri - November 19, 2004IMs harmfulUnlike Tina of Perfectly Imperfect, I didn't decide to stop
using IM. It just happened as the end-of-year hysteria with its live-or-die kind
of projects kicked in and over my work, and I didn't have much time to open
Adium and say 'Hello' around. Once the pain of
the forbidden addiction passed, I observed what a time saver reduced IM usage
can be.
Posted at 09:43 AM Back to | Read more Fri - November 12, 2004I hate itI hate going to bed at 4 only to wake up at 7! AM, that is. Both.
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