Well, a bit more than doodling -Oekaki is wildly popular and I take my hat off to the artists. Since I have a Wacom tablet, drawing and playing with the Gimp has become loads more fun, but I still can’t produce anything decent .

Anyway, I was chatting with someone and text wasn’t enough, […]

An interesting comparison between ODB and RDB. I can only agree with most points and add my two cents.
The most important - because user-visible - argument heard against ODB’s is the lack of a query language, or these days more the lack of a OJDBC+SQL interface. The reason being that “the user is otherwise not […]

A very short post, this.

The Parody
The Response

Now, if all law schools could please make this a case study in 101 trademark law…
(thanks to Giovanni for pointing out the “Permit and Proceed” letter to me. I was aware of the parody, even made SL tshirts with the logo to hand out in SL…)

A quicky - not about to do full movie reviews on my blog, but I liked Das Parfum by Süskind a lot when I read it, and finally Hollywood dared to make a movie out of it.
Like the book, movie is out of the ordinary, slightly disturbing, and definitely worth a view.

After a long wait, the MIT Media Lab released Scratch, a great bit of software that lets kids of all ages work on interactive multimedia. The software was built (in Squeak!) by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group, and is great fun for kids of any age (like me).
Download it, pick the sample projects apart, […]

I don’t know who referred it to me, but last week I read Systemantics - How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail - a little gem of a book filled with satire about, well, how systems don’t work.
Insightful, thoroughly enjoyable, and it does make one think at times. As it is a small […]

I’m probably not the first to blog about the Apple iPhone (or whatever it’s going to be called due to Cisco owning the brand name), but I’m going to do this nevertheless.

I’m old enough to remember working with the Mac (the Mac - the very first one) and recalling what a joy it was compared […]

Well, GPL seems to be all the craze these days - after Sun with Java, LindenLabs now follows by Open Sourcing their viewer software under the GPL.
This is a great move for more than a single purpose. For starters, you can now add your own goodies to the SLviewer - expect to see a plug-in […]