InVisible

some good advice for all of us

What happens if you sort Amazon reviews bottom up? You get classics. "I found Mr. Davis' playing to be laughable at best. Finally, it's irritating; and confusing that so many people laud it." "It's full of bland harmonizing by guys that could barely swim." I must admit I was misled from the beginning, I thought that this book was actually "The Guide to the Galaxy." However, I was disappointed to find that Adams's book is only referring to a made up book that explains useless knowledge to ficticious characters. Therefore making this book even more useless! and many, many more [via Photo Matt] ...

I have been using Skype for a while now and been very satisfied. Recently, Skype has expanded to include calls to POTS (Plain Old Telephone Systems). You have to buy credits (minimum €10) and then can call. Interesting rates! Calling Germany from Switzerland is about 50% cheaper than using my discount telephone carrier. Voice quality is excellent. And P2PVOIP continues to be free. Sounds good to me!

You want one? Send me an email - first come, first served [update: they are all gone, stop asking… ]

A couple of weeks ago, my laptop running Windows XP decided to have a fit. After the application of generous amounts of TLC, chanting secret mantras and threatening to accelerate it with 9.81 m/s^2 , I got it working again. It decided to re apply about 73 security patches and service packs and booted. However I have since lost the ability to access my wireless network and the boot process sometimes takes even longer than usual. ...

Read it: Typography for Writers by Dean (I’m reading through his old stuff - disturbing, entertaining, thoughtful, not boring)