My new notebook arrived three days ago: a MacBook Pro. As this is my first Apple machine ever, I am experincing some beginner’s transitional surprises.
The first surprise was somewhat disappointing. I was unable to access my wirless network due to an umlaut in the network’s ID string. Because I had a lot of software to [...]

After quite some time I write one of these things that were supposed to be the overall topic of this blog: a snippet. This time, it’s a bookmarklet. My first bookmarklet at all. So without further ado, here’s what it takes to immediately jump from an O’Reilly catalog page to the corresponding search page at [...]

In light of recent events: On Leaving Google.

What a bold statement! Do these something less than 100 lines of Perl really transform each and any Java program into its Perl equivalent? No, they don’t. But what they do is just the way I use automation: automate what you can automate easily and leave some work unfinished, so it doesn’t get too boring [...]

Here’s a both entertaining and interesting introductory lesson about David Allen’s Getting Things Done. This guy seems to really know what he’s talking about. I already put the book on my wishlist. I guess he could make his point clear with a little less jumping around on stage, but if that’s his preferred way of [...]

after sifting through some slides about The Cobra Programming Language, I get the impression that Cobra might be a language worth keeping in mind.

In a post about the Google Social Graph API, Tim O’Reilly pointed out to two profiles that Google doesn’t know about: dopplr and goodreads. As I am not a business traveller, dopplr doesn’t seem to be of any use to me right now. But goodreads looked interesting.

So from now on, in addition to my posts [...]

After listening to the first episode I really wondered how there could possibly be 19 more. After listening to the second one I am baffled about how much improvement can happen from one episode the another. If you guys just wanted to have a steep excitement curve, you succeeded. This was amusing and interesting. I [...]

I just listened to the first episode of the FeedBurner Podcast. In the last few months I listened to a bunch of netcasts, but that one was really a completely new experience. I didn’t know that netcasting was about explicitly telling your guests what to say. Argh!

And I don’t need no water.
I just registered for a FeedBurner account and burned my entries and comments feeds. Integration into wordpress is done with FeedSmith. The hint to burn my feeds using this plugin originated from the author of solution-box, who hopefully comes up soon with some earthshaking technical, web-related screencasts.