Spring and RSS Feed update — 2 September 2007

Yesterday was supposedly the start of Spring, well you could have fooled me. Not here in Cape Town, it was raining and very winter like.

Onto my RSS feed items for today:

• IBM —
  • Two IBM Discoveries Add Promise for Nano-Computing
  • At I.B.M., a Vacation Anytime, or Maybe None — this is the best thing about working for IBM — I just love working this way.
• Linux —
  • Next version of Ubuntu announced: The Hardy Heron
  • Issue #4 of Full Circle released!
• Free/Open Source software I use or recommend —
  • Skype 3.5.0.229
  • PHP 5.2.4 Released
  • Azureus for Windows 3.0.2.2
  • Free Download Manager 2.5 Build 708
  • FileZilla 3.0.0 RC3
• How-to’s —
  • Games: Flight Simulator in Google Earth 4.2
• Web development —
  • Starting with PHP and AJAX
• Internet —
  • MSN Messenger vulnerable to ‘highly critical’ webcam flaw
  • Cerf Opposes Calls for Strict Controls on Internet
  • Preventing Domain Expiration
• Great insightful reads —
  • The Next Killer App – Telepresence
    
  • IT-based Collaboration and the Evolution of Work
• Facebook —
  • A slap in the Facebook
• Fun stuff —
  • Follow-on of my Lightsaber entry of a day or so ago – Jedi squirels
    
• Other tidbits —
  • Instant Messaging in Afrikaans — for all my Afrikaans readers
  • Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer — Want to play with one of these
  • IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T61P Rewiew — and I want one of these.

With the eclipse earlier this week, I came across this photo. Click on the image for more information.

Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka

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