- Microsoft Senior VP says Windows XP will be supported until the year 2014. Finally, better sense prevails. π | 0
- Wired: “Google’s open source android phone will free the wireless web.” [via.] π | 0
Minimalism commentary
Minimalism is the new black, or so these fine folks appear to be saying: Ryan Tomayko, James Bennett, and Mark Pilgrim. This is a different train of thought for me.1
My perspective on minimalism has mostly revolved around bandwidth instead. Some experiments over the years:
- There was a theme I created in which the website showed only my about page, and nothing else. To find updated content, it would require the reader to subscribe to the feed (or find posts via the archives page, which I ended up adding a link to—for better visibility). As I realized after a month, it was a real pain for readers to find out what was happening.
- I’ve had inline editing via a plugin [zip], which, I am not sure works with the new WordPress release.
- Last year, I enabled a shortlived homepage with just Twitter updates.
- And now this. The new avatar (if you click and load the site) isn’t really new. For a few years, I put up with a barely populated sidebar, in the hope that I’d have some meaningful meta information to fill it with. That didn’t happen. So now it’s gone.
- Update: Oh by the way, the site search autodiscovery on this site is a couple of years old feature now.
- Russell Beattie and Shelley Powers on the other hand appear to disagree. [←]
- Boston.com: “The discovery [of water ice on Mars by its Phoenix Lander probe] involved the observation of water ice sublimating into the air.” π | 0
- Today marks the 60th anniversary of first stored program’s execution. (via.) π | 0
- Economist: “The future of energy—a fundamental change is coming sooner than you might think.” I have to agree this one in particular about producing energy from geothermal sources, is an idea I hadn’t come across earlier. π | 0
- Dia is a delightful flowcharting software. FOSS. Available for both Linux, and Windows. π | 2
- Bill Goldberg (Linux Owns): “Guide to customizing Ubuntu’s look and feel.” π | 0
- Hard to believe that all three oil majors—BP, Exxon, and Shell—had their company logos designed by one man, Raymond Loewy. π | 0