IT conservations

Another reason to like twitter ... or the guys behind twitter : in their announcement/warning of the upcoming downtime, they linked the time...

A couple of recent Gillmor Gang episodes were dedicated to the concept (and necessity) of a decentralized twitter , and/or opening up twitt...

I just noticed that Thunderbird saves the world. Really. If you click on the column selection button in one of the table views, e.g. Inbox, ...

Today I saw (quite an expensive) a car with the vanity license plate "X 500" on it. The owner is most definitely not from IT or an...

Just noticed that I had some dust on the sensor of my DSLR ( Nikon D70 ). And while I was IM'ing with a friend (Max) on how to get rid o...

Another addition to the collection of stupid user interfaces. This week's award goes to Nokia for replacing a YES/NO dialog with two bu...

As with federated identities , I thought that OpenID had no space in the enterprise. The main thought was, that OpenID make me the owner o...

Just noticed that OpenOffice 2.4 and (therefore) StarOffice 8 Update 10 , have a new faster way to select/change the language for the spell...

When it comes to identity management enterprises today tend to only care about user provisioning, compliance and (worst of all) single-sign-...

Just read on SourceForge.net: Community Blog that they now support OpenID for login. Excellent !!

StarOffice 8 Update 10 has finally been released as patch 120187-14 for Windows. Contrary to previous patches, this one was quite troubl...

Xing just added great (beta) feature to the Contacts page. You can now view your contacts as a map using - of course - Google Maps. Here...

Just stumbled upon this nice piece of not-so-useful tricks... but fun. via Tim Bray ongoing � History history | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ...

I ranted about this earlier , but there is still no improvement. Dopplr does a lousy job regarding its 'catalog' of city data. Sad.

I heard a lot of rumors during the last year or so about Microsoft buying Citrix... now IBM and Cisco joined the list... Rumors of IBM or Ci...

I had the chance to "lift" an MacBook Air recently, because a co-worker got himself such a beast. Boy... great device... really. ...

Whoever changed the application or infrastructure behind docs.sun.com ... Thank you. Performance and responsiveness is now on a level where ...

Finally, Sun talks Java again in Austria. [1] On June 19th there will be a one day Java Conference called JavaDeus[2] in St. Pölten. Free ad...

Strange... I have been using the Speed Dial extension for Firefox for quite some while now, and a couple of days it started to kill my Fire...

A couple of days ago I got rid of my printer at home... and old Lexmark [1] ink printer. First of all because it was broken. Secondly becaus...