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Monthly Archives June 2006

Usability of error messages

Most of my PCs (barring my laptop) are a hand-me-downs and a few years old anyway. There is a particular problem I’ve been experiencing. I’ve just reinstalled amarok mp3 player. On startup it scans my whole mp3 collection and stores it in it’s internal database. Well, unfortunately it hangs my laptop. I’ve spent a couple [...]

Posted 25 June 2006 † Dmitry § coding § linux ‡ Comments (0) °

Musings on GTD.

So, if you’ve been following the blogosphere, you should know about the whole “Getting Things Done” movement. I’ve looked at their stuff briefly and although I wasn’t blown away I’ve adopted some of their techniques. Specifically, the “next action” approach. I’m far too lazy to implement that on paper or otherwise, so I’ve looked around [...]

Posted 23 June 2006 † Dmitry § coding § gtd § ideas § perl ‡ Comments (0) °

Wikipedia vs Linux

A very interesting post by Ben Yates, The Future of Open Source Five Years Ago, via Jeff Atwood’s blog, compares rates of contribution to wikipedia and linux. In summary, the author claims that Wikipedia has surpassed linux as the “numero uno” open source project. He cites the fact that the “developers are deserting”, that there’s [...]

Posted 23 June 2006 † Dmitry § evangelism § linux § rant § wikipedia ‡ Comments (1) °

Welcome

Welcome.
First post, I’m going to detail what I want out of this blog.
Mostly I want to bounce my ideas off the hive mind. This is impossible until a blog achives a minimum level of popularity. Who knows how long that’s gonna take. I guess that’s part of the purpose of this blog. Plus, I suppose [...]

Posted 20 June 2006 † dmitrym § about ‡ Comments (0) °