Musings

Fern.Weh and more

I’ve been in a project that eats a lot of time (4 hours of commute being one of the “killer features”) for a while now. Unfortunately that has not really helped me on my guitar playing. The internet to the rescue: Indian music at your fingertips. [via Don Dahlmann]

Uh oh. Executing rm -r with root permission is dangerous (as others, unnamed persons know). Luckily not in / and not on a production server. Learn this lesson: When testing scripts that delete files, do an echo instead of a rm until you are sure, that you are in the right path. Waiting for the restore crew… Update: The directory is back - time to leave for the weekend, I guess. ...

In the my-external-brain dept. What happens when Microsoft designs an iPod clone Creating validating XHTML forms with Notes Praise the SMTP designer at Lotus (actually, that’s more like: slap them for not implementing this sooner) Five steps to implementing GTD (Getting Things Done) with Lotus Notes Eric Mack on using Notes for Action management

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] ...