Year: 2005

another day of snow biking in basel…

via Photomatt.net: How to pitch an idea

A pinch and punch for the first day of the month. No returns.* I like March. It’s my favorite month of the year! * From my good old school days at Saints

grey, cold, and snowing… i started out on my bike but decided to change to Bus und Tram cos I couldn’t see much with the fine snow blowing into my face. Here are some snapshots of the Basel ferry:

alternatives to InxMail?

no further explanatory words required…. source: Africaspotter.at.tt

easyJet has plastered the following ad all across Basel: my alternative spelling suggestions: fussball Team or even better: fussballTeam, in line with their company logo

Sitepoint on the “new thing” in search engine optimization. It looks like press releases to services like prweb.com are going to go the same way that comments to blogs went…

Some of my regular readers may remember that a while back I used to regularly post links to news about Malawi. One of my initial blogging ideas was to be a news aggregator for interesting internet articles on Malawi. Nchenga’s low-budget approach to crossing the digital divide. In the past months – actually since I… Continue reading some thoughts

via 43folders: Shut off auto-check – Either turn off automatic checking completely, or set it to something reasonable, like every 20 minutes or so. If you’re doing anything with new email more than every few minutes, you might want to rethink your approach. I’m sure that some of you working in North Korean missile silos… Continue reading email habits

today is just one of those blogging days, when I say to myself there are other hobbies out there… like fishing, or knitting! Hobbies which are less affected by intruders. Woke up this morning to find a MySQL error displaying… somehow I managed to resolve that. Sun is shining and I’m sitting here trying to… Continue reading one of those blogging days…

I installed Picasa2 this week. Cos I am curious. Curious what Google is up to. So far I like it… It visualizes those long forgotten .jpgs deep down in the backwater of my hard disk across all directories. It’s like IrfanView but with a better user interface. I haven’t tried the basic fixes or tuning… Continue reading picasa

Swiss software product nominated for JDJ Reader’s Choice Award 2005!

and offshoring, work means much more than doing your job. 6 tips to keep you working: Do not plan to write code for your entire career – code is a commodity and can be created by others for much less money Learn to communicate effectively – develop your public speaking and writing skills Develop people… Continue reading in times of outsourcing

Linguists, however, are slowly coming to discover the joys of a free and searchable corpus of maybe 10 trillion words that is available to anyone with an internet connection: the world wide web.

I took part in last week’s STC web seminar on pre-emptive project planning by John Hedtke. Found it practical and useful. His main points: Plan ahead The real problem is the projects you don’t know about that land on your desk suddenly and without warning. Keep it simple Use a simple excel sheet to track… Continue reading pre-emptive project planning

stumbled across this entry at Language Log: […] The Elements of Style offers prejudiced pronouncements on a rather small number of topics, frequently unsupported, and unsupportable, by evidence. It simply isn’t true that the constructions they instruct you not to use are not used by good writers. Take just one illustrative example, the advice not… Continue reading Throw out that Strunk & White…

it’s sunny and cold. just right for jogging in the woods. did about 3km. it feels good to have the cold fresh air rushing in. Maxwell is right: Motivation comes when you get started. i’ve started cleaning up my olde laptop (4+ years old). there’s no space left on the hard disk. it doesn’t shut… Continue reading beautiful day