The Economist had an interesting, if brief, article on Dennis Ritchie, Unix, C and other goings on at The Labs.
Gentoo
I’ve just installed Gentoo Linux for the first time and I definitely like its style. Very slick, and emerge is very nice. It was quite good fun trying to get support working for NForce networking, but not particular harder (and certainly a lot clearer) than getting it work in Mandrake 9.x.
It's all gone pear-shaped!
Now, this I like: PearPC is officially the awesome-est thing I’ve seen for a fair bit. And me about to buy a bloody iMac just to test sites on… Anyways, it certainly does the trick for Safariing around and all that stuff that you do with a Mac.
On yer feet, son…
So, while I’m happy about Larsson and Guily, I’m definitely not convinced about Deco. Good player and all that, but why can he not stay vertical for more than a couple of minutes?
Wrong end of the stick…
How to misquote: a lesson in bad journalism from Mobilemag.com. Nicola Bruno’s account of the Kodak DCS SLR/c review in Digital Photograph Review [sic] is a masterclass in not knowing your subject and freely chucking in partial snippets of quotes from somewhere else to produce a piece. And I quote: “The first 14 megapixel digital SLR” – it’s not 14Mp, and whatever it is, it’s got exactly the same sensor as the last Kodak dSLR; “The Kodak DCS Pro is now the second camera to have a true 35mm size sensor” – it’s not even called DCS Pro; “it’s also the only camera to support Canon mount lenses”; “the capability to capture images at 4560 x 3048, 19 of them in RAW format in only 1.7 seconds”. She goes on to say “Read more from the source.” Good idea.
Larsson for Barça
The BBC news site reports that Henrik Larsson will be signing for Barça. Well, his agent “claims he is close to signing for the Catalans.” Hope so. I think Ronaldinho might just be able to provide a goal or two for Henrik.
PowerPizza
14″ PowerPizza: Anti-theft, Anti-shock, Anti-style.
¿Hablas Espanol?
Search Engine Watch has an interesting article entitled *Search Marketing & the Spanish Speaking Internet* discussing the worldwide Spanish-speaking market and its potential value, focusing primarily on Latin America. It’s a little short if you don’t subscribe, but does manage to balance the positives with the realities of doing business in this as-yet largely untapped market.
Time for change?
I’ve said *this* for a while, but maybe it’s about time they actually went ahead with separate autonomous national teams in Spain? I doubt Catalunya would do any worse than the *selección española* and most likely they’d manage to do a lot better. They held their end up against Brasil (although once the scoring started, it *started*) and that’s without the catalans who play for Spain. And one thing’s for sure: they’d be better than Scotland.
The Monkey's Back?
Is Webmonkey back? They say they’re “totally back”.