Musings

Henriette and I have launched a new blog: blog.betabitch.com - a site where we will share our frustrations with all the beta software and applications and websites that we are experiencing. Feel free to join us in suggesting bitch-worthy sites, agree or disagree with us. We look forward to hearing from you. Technorati Tags: beta, betabitch

Oh joy. The first day in the new year, and Dannie sees fit to tag me with the “5 things you didn’t know about me” meme. I was very introverted As a kid and youth, I was extremely introverted. I played with Lego, read a ton of books and couldn’t bear to talk with other people. Luckily this has changed in the last 20 years and I find it easy to talk in front of people (actually, I really like giving presentations). However, when I meet a lot of new people, I have a hard time getting to know a lot of them. I have enough after two or three. (People like Laurent, Henriette and Dannie make up in quality for the missing quantity) ...

I’m hopelessly behind my RSS reading. I’m trying to catch up, reading really fast, skimming and unsubscribing from a lot of feeds. Merlin Mann’s 43Folders however, is going to stay a little longer - in part because he brought my attention to two really great applications for the mac: Backdrop and Menushade Backdrop just puts up a big window (in any colour you like - I take black, thank you) that you can use to block out all the other windows and the mess on your desktop. Menushade dims the Mac menubar (or makes it completely black). It springs back to life, when you mouse into it… ...

We knew that Solaris DTrace would be included in OS X 10.5 (Leopard). And of course there was much speculation, that some other Solaris technologies would make it into the next OS X version. It seems that ZFS is going to be included. This is great news. I’ve been reading about ZFS for quite some time, and notably my favorite hoster, Textdrive/Joyent has been using ZSF for quite a bit. benr (Ben Rockwood) has blogged quite a bit about the positive aspects of ZFS. ...

Who’s that trying to hack my Mac? use authsight and the built in iSight camera of your mac to grab a photo of anyone trying to log in with a wrong login/password. Technorati Tags: apple, isight, mac, login

I have been having this idea for quite a while: I have lot’s of technology in my house and in the office. Starting with 3 Macs (including the iMac for my wife, that we got this weekend), a decent Home Theater with HD Beamer, lot’s of cell phones, and the robot cleaner. I use dozens of web sites to coordinate, share and keep track of things. I use a lot of software. ...