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Entries for Monday, August 20, 2007
➠ August 20, 2007
Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve - Joel on Software
As someone who installed Vista on a PC in January, and regretted it for months, I echo Joel Spolsky’s summation: “I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.”
Audio Edition | Economist.com
Not-quite-a-podcast from The Economist — The entire issue each week as a talking-book. Each section of the magazine is a separate MP3 file, so you can “read” the bits that interest you. Free to subscribers.
10 PRINT “yoz ROOLS OK “; 20 GO TO 10
From Yoz's talk on "Folk Logic" -- How every kid in the 80s learned to "program".
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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.
BBC Olinda digital radio: Social hardware
Schulze & Webb are working on an open, social digital-radio-plus-wifi prototype for the BBC. Fascinating the way they hope to apply “open source” to hardware design.