Twubble searches your Twitter friend graph and picks people you might like to follow.
This is the kind of thing that Facebook should let developers do. Due to the restrictive developer API, however, you can only see friends of friends who are friends with you.
According to Twubble, I should make friends with factoryjoe!
Slides from my PyCon UK 2007 tutorial are now online (with audio):
Proof: Get a Larger Monitor, Become More Productive
The study concluded that someone using a larger monitor could save 2.5 hours a day.
Update: Timothy Ferriss also blogged about this.
External Editor Plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird. Just wonderful.
In IE8 speeds things up, several performance enhancements are listed for IE8 Beta 1, including downloading scripts in parallel, which current browsers don't really do. Hooray.
From Major Update to Prism, First Prototype of Browser Integration:
Prism is an open source cross-platform prototype of functionality that lets users split web applications out of the browser and run them directly on the desktop.
This looks really interesting.
I've been trying to find a decent email client with tagging support today.
I host my own email server, and I want something like GMail's tags. I am at the stage where my 5-level folder hierarchy has become unwieldy. I used to think using tags was strange and disorganised, but I have seen the light! Multi-dimensional tagging is the way forward. Much better than a single, fixed hierarchy. You can still decide on a fixed structure of tags, as opposed to just tagging things with the first few words that come into your head (which is what I used to think).
Mozilla Thunderbird supports adding custom IMAP tags, but somehow the interface just doesn't cut it for me. I want autocomplete, and an intuitive interface where tags aren't just bolted on and hidden in a submenu.
Incidentally, Mozilla Thunderbird has been crashing a lot today (something to do with Ubuntu Hardy Heron's latest updates). It happens every time I get a new email. Really annoying!
I sometimes use a command-line email client, mutt, for its integration with the vim text editor. This doesn't really have an easy-to-use interface for a large hierarchy of IMAP folders, let alone tags.
Here are some potentially useful links for mutt:
If anyone knows of an addon or similar for Thunderbird, that would make my life a lot easier!
A couple of interesting news stories about meditation and survival in extreme conditions.
Wow, this is so much fun!!
I think all the scenes in the video actually come preloaded with the program.
It was a lot of fun to play with, and certainly something I'd recommend for children to use when learning about physics, or just for general entertainment on a rainy day!
That looks like a wonderful program. I will definitely download it sometime and have a go! Were the ones you made as good as the ones in the video?
Thank you so much. Got same problem with OpenSuse 10.3, Firefox 2.0.0.12 & JDK 1.6 and now it works fine !
It may not be Christmas, but is it april fools: http://www.isitaprilfools.com
you are too slow.
Write something once a month dude!
How about only taking macrophotographz?
(well done for updating your blog!)
People don't actually like choices that much. What people REALLY want is a lot of the same thing to choose from, thus creating an illusion of free will, while doesn't really require much of selective process, and in fact what they end up choosing does not matter at all. For example pop music, high street fashion, and the all the major political parties.
oh, i am very slightly jealous.
