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Small changes to the layout, small headlines, finally managed to find the lines to activate the sidebar in single post pages.
And this neat feature where it shows links to stories, articles, whatever I want in the sidebar, for “Last Links”. 8 at the moment, number may go up or down.

Yesterday, the new Ubuntu version 6.10, edgy Eft, was officially released. While the old one, Dapper Drake, is the eternally stable one with three years of support, this one is the one with all the new stuff, like Firefox 2. Look, Ubuntu is better and easier to use than Windows, maybe a bit different here […]

Ok, my blog was away for a few days, I changed my server provider and was surprised by how fast they changed the domain (1 day instead of two weeks they claimed it would take), so I didn’t announce it beforehand. But no sweat, here we are again, and on a much faster server, I […]

Gaim, the best IM tool that combines all the major instant messaging programs into one convenient interface, has its new version of the 2.0.0Beta out (Beta4). In their blog, I found this funny item about the Text version of Gaim. I will try that one for sure! Why would anyone do that? Because it is […]

One seriously bad game for me, much worse for some other people.
A View From Top on World of Warcraft
From my vantage point as a guild decision maker, I’ve seen it destroy more families and friendships and take a huge toll on individuals than any drug on the market today, and that means a lot coming […]

A gangster assembled an engineer, a chemist, and a physicist, and ordered them to find a way to guarantee that his horse would win in the next week’s races. The day before the race, they reconvened.
Gangster: Engineer, what have you got?
Engineer: I’ve invented a way to weave metallic threads into the saddle blanket so that […]

After Neal Morse left Spock’s Beard, I ignored his solo albums. That “God is great, Jesus is great”-shit annoyed the hell out of me. But now he released a CD with cover songs that were recorded during the sessions to his solo album.

For these sorry times you have to use Windows:
10 Windows Explorer alternatives compared and reviewed.
Better yet, the best one is free!

Just the Firefox extension I was looking for: Hyperwords. Mark text in your Firefox, hit Enter and…search the marked text on Google. Or Amazon. Or blog it. Or translate it. Dozens of choices. Or double-enter for Google search. Lovely
/edit: This )/§% thing phones home! It has a button to deactivate “sending usage statistics”, […]

Neil Peart ist the best drummer in the world.
Now that needed its own paragraph But he is, and he is the drummer of RUSH, a band that has not released a single album that was not really good, yet gently changed the way the play a number of times. I saw them live last […]