Saturday, December 31, 2005
New Year’s Eve. No party to go to. Lots of time to spend reading up on my mailbox and working towards 1.0 release of sbackup.
However I will stop for a moment for a meme from my friend, Yume
The idea is to put all of your music collection into a player, put it on shuffle, ask [...]
Saturday, December 24, 2005
It just came to me that if we accept the definition of “industry” (from the text of the software patent directive that EP had in first reading where it it was said) that industry basically is mass production of material goods, then there is no need for neither software industry not movie industry nor music [...]
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Learning TurboGears now. True MVC separation. Nice and powerful. Templates are valid XHTML documents (and not a mess of gibberish). Not much magic. I hate magic. Especially when it fails. I look forward to writing a task tracking system for a very special project in this framework. More about the project when it is launched. [...]
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Ben from Eye
It is misty today in Riga this reminded me of the second oldest photo that I’ve taken and that is still on my harddrive. A photo taken by a simple dispensable camera, but still so nice
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Today I was doing the free vs. open presentation and comparison by Lawrence [...]
Monday, December 19, 2005
I spent day preparing a presentation for tomorrow’s “Open Christmas” celebration in Latvian [...]
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Another idea came to me in shower – I’ve been reading up about MS Office 12 UI changes and I think there are some very nice ideas there, but we can do better. The main principle of the Ribbon is that all functions are there, but some are smaller then others based on their priority. [...]
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Here is a quick idea for you – Free Software tax.Imagine a voluntary 1% tax that is collected by a non-profit US foundation from the people that signed up for the program. Imagine that amount exempt from the usual taxation. Imagine that money channelled to Eastern Europe or Russia or India or China or anywhere [...]
Monday, December 12, 2005
We all know how over time our input devices get contaminated by particles from objects that tend to reside in our hands in between acts of data input. Basically I am speaking about those bread crumbles in the keyboard and that slightly sticky stuff that covers the buttons of a mouse after a few months [...]
