Distant Early Morning
That’s a Rush song, by the way.
- You’ve probably bumped into these pictures already but I can’t resist blogging about them here. Sure they’re heavily photoshop’ed but what the hell, those are awe-inspiring.
- Simon Willison posts so infrequently it’s a shame. I love his writings and find his posts to be always really insightful. This time around he was at the Future of Web Apps Summit (when do I attend something like this, anyway?) and him and a handful of other attendees took a bunch of notes about the talks in a collaborative fashion. Apparently, SubEthaEdit is good with that. It’s a good example of note-taking, too.
- Miguel has posted about the recent Xgl code release by Novell. It’s a good one-stop place to check in the demo videos of Xgl goodness. On the other hand, Linux desktops at large seem to be taking quantum leaps recently (just how quantum I don’t really know because one thing is eye-candy whereas usability is an entirely different matter). A bunch of new KDE 4 screenshots have recently surfaced. They look good and simple, yeah, but I can’t see what the fuss is all about. Maybe I’m spoiled since I got into MacOS X?
- For those of you just dying to get iTunes going on Linux, there’s a somewhat hacky way of getting version 6.0 (not 6.0.2) running using Wine.
On a different note, I’ve been reading Ajax in Action and generally having a blast. I’ve read a few technical heavyweight books in my time and I can’t recommend this one enough if you are in one way or another intrigued by the whole Web 2.0 hype. And while we’re at it, check out Tim O'Reilly talk about Web 2.0 at the MySQL User Conference last year. Insightful.
Incidentally, Tiago has also been playing with Ajax lately and he’s already managed to get the XmlHttpRequest going. Cool stuff and it’s indeed very exciting that we’re clearly living in the dawn of a new era. It’s probably the first big revolution in the computing world I’m experiencing with my eyes wide open. It’s a time to learn as much as possible and make the most out of it, I guess.