Apple Inc. has released a Safari update today. Safari is an extremely nice, fast and efficient browser on Mac OS X. The only big problem it had was with GMail. I guess it was due to the AJAX implementaion in Safari that made using gmail from Safari quite bulky. It seems like the latest update...

GMail is my most beloved email service. Not only because I get 1GB space for free but because it is extremely user-friendly. It is so nice that I do not even use POP access and always use it from the web. Recently I have discovered one more very cool feature. I don\‘t know how long...

I was shown the cuttiest photo of a kitten today. I mean, I have seen lots of cats and kitten in my life (just as everybody esle, I gues) but  Tessie is one of a kind. See yourself:

Empire State building construction took 14  months. From ground zero to opening - just 14 months, and with the technology (or lack of it) that they had back then! One word - INCREDIBLE.

One of the best moments of my life - I got admitted to the Smith School of Business at UMD. \

What\’s the most annoying creation in the entire universe? Right, customers. Three Dead Trolls have posted a video which is very representative and funny as hell. Check out and begin your day with a healthy lough, maybe you will survive a day of dealing with your customers. Enjoy \

Longhorn Screenshots were leaked, once again. It looks like those are close to the final version, this time. What can you say about them? It\’s sad when people have no taste and no feel for good user-interface design. Could not they hire, at least, somebody normal? How can one be so tasteless? For so long?...

If you are a Blogger subscriber you can get a free podcast via an affiliated service: AudioBlogger. It\’s pretty cool and generous, if you ask me, but one thing that really sucks is - you can only post your podcasts via some phone number (1 - 6 6 1- 7 1 6 - B L...

It makes me sick to stomach to see what is happening with the Java Web Frameworks. Sun and other vendors shamelessly push JSF down the customers throats and they swallaw it without as much as a word of a protest. JavaServer Faces is a piece of crap! It has its rotten roots so deep in Struts...

Pierre has pointed me to a very interesting article about how infrequent (in quantity) but large number (in distribution) of items can be a significant contributor (or missed opportunity) of your sales. The author, Joe Kraus, is the the co-founder of the Excite and the founder of JotSpot, so no surprise - he knows what...

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505I find it very interesting. Not so much that it\’s a deep philosophy or anything, but it is interesting in the sense - it shows a piece of Steve Jobs, probably one of the most remarkable persons of our and the end of previous centuries.

Apple released JDK5 implementation quite some time ago. The installer does not overwrite the default 1.4 installation but rather installs paralelly (good!). It also comes with a tool for switching between 1.4 and 5 JDKs. However that tool does not do crap (bad). We discussed this at TheServerSide when JDK was released and I posted...

Steve Jobs made a Keynote presentation at WWDC today. Regardless whether I like that Apple is switching to Intel processors vs. Power line or not is  a different story but the thing that has been proven, once again, for me is - Steve is a genius! Absolute, complete, incredibe. Having been developing Mac OS X for Intel, too,...

Even though I do get a satisfaction close to physical, seeing a clever Object-Oriented design, it never stops to amaze me that, as OO purists are ready to cut each-others throats over certain design decisions, the most important and sophisticated piece of software we use - operating systems - are almost entirely written in a non-OO language like C...

Sometimes people try too hard and end-up doing plain stupid things. One of such things ruined my day, today. XMLHttpRequest is very cool and AJAX is cool and it is awesome that all four major browsers (IE, Mozilla/Firefox, Opera, Safari) have support for it, in their latest versions. That’s unusually good, but Safari and Opera...