The Blog of Harald

I’m going to totally mess up Google here, and do my first link dump. These are all items that have been sitting in my aggregator for a while that I don’t want to lose, but I’m too busy (or brain-dead) to comment on right now.

“Axentra Rumba Server”:http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4730 – a mini-ITX based home firewall _and_ server.
“Trained Eye Gallery”:http://www.timdavisartimages.com/pages/main.html – macro photographs of … boxcars.
“StarROMs, Inc”:http://www.starroms.com/ – legally download old videogame ROMs.
“America — love it or, um…”:http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/000851.html
“Andrew Clover’s JavaScript Browser Parasite Detector”:http://doxdesk.com/parasite/
“Verisign: Documenting the Damage”:http://www.unicom.com/chrome/a/000364.html
“The avocado-green fridge”:http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/09/30.html#a814 – The PC is the avocado-green fridge…
“OpenOffice 1.1 is out”:http://www.openoffice.org/
“The Telescope Game”:http://www.dyson.co.uk/game/play.asp
“Killing Comment Spam Dead”:http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/09/killing_comment_spam_dead
“Open Perl IDE”:http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/
“Exit Windows, mostly”:http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/2003/9/25#03:28 – one linux desktop story
“Settling in with the penguin”:http://www.bradchoate.com/past/001709.php – another linux desktop story
“An End To Driver Hell”:http://loosewire.blogspot.com/archives/2003_09_14_loosewire_archive.html#106395389188687000 – Driver Magician can backup installed drivers from your running windows box.
“More Search Options”:http://loosewire.blogspot.com/archives/2003_09_11_loosewire_archive.html#106333158581759990 – two desktop search tools (80-20 and X1).

*Update:*

“Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design”:http://www.guuui.com/issues/04_03.asp – How visual simplicity can harm usability
“Killing Comment Spam for Dummies”:http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/09/killing_comment_spam_for_dummies – more on the subject
“Debian Backports”:http://www.backports.org/ – run new software on an older system

Enjoy…