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Microsoft released new version of their messenger for Mac. It looks better than old very6. I am going to try it (just to see how it works). I stopped using Microsoft softwarec ompletely and I am quite happy with aMSN for messaging with other users of Microsoft Messenger. But I still want to give new messenger a try and see how good or bad it is.

I wonder why my Amazon package is stuck for more than two days at DHL facility in "Staufenberg DE"? What prevents them from sending it further?

I googled for "Amazon DHL" and found only negative feedbacks about delivery when DHL delivers Amazon packages. Packages are lost, delivered to wrong address, returned as undeliverable without any real delivery attempt, etc. I start to fear that my package will be one of those unhappy stuck packages. One girl had her...

Andreas Becker has a nice summary of how to configure CoolURI comparing to RealURL. Very nice and useful page for those who migrate from one extension to another and for newbies.

I finally decided to order Getting Things Done, Don't Make Me Think!, and Designing Interactions. I wanted these three books for a long time but delivery from any Amazon to Latvia costs a lot of money (from 10€ per item), so when a book costs 7€ you will think twice before paying more for delivery. But sooner or later I would buy these books anyway, so I spent the rest of my Moneybookers donations to them. Now can't wait to receive them and start reading. I wanted them for soooooooo long!

Unlike computers, people do not have memory that fixes everything and keeps it fixed. People may forget all or some information. Today I forgot that tt_news has two different hooks for extra markers: one for news items (called in a loop, named extraItemMarkerProcessor) and another is for the compiled output (called just before final substitution of all markers, named extraGlobalMarkerHook).

Why am I writing it here? Because people can forget. By mentioning it here, I create additional bounding...

T3DD08 is over. This was great event: lots of interesting talks and lots of interesting discussions. Really good recreation as well (especially pool night on Saturday). I have some fascinating ideas, which I may put at work soon. Due to this I had to put "unavailable" flag for any freelance work. I truly need to think about ideas that I have and make some prototypes.

Thanks a lot to Gina, Thomas along with Mario and people from "helping hands" team for the great...

Jens Hoffman said aloud an idea, which I know for a long time but which is not heard as often as it should be: "Do not make a feature just because you can". This is really right thing! Things should not be made just because it is possible to make them. They should be made only if necessary. It perfectly follows KISS principle ("Keep it simple, stupid!"). Life is complex enough, there is no need to make it even more complex!

Some people asked for files from productivity session. Here it is as image. Feel free to use for non-commercial purposes.

Yesterday I was desperate for a free good programmer's editor for Mac OS. I used jEdit so far. It is a good editor but key bindings are non-standard, it is written in Java and looks terrible. So I wanted something different.

I searched the Internet. Some people say that BBEdit is "de facto" standard on Mac OS but I found it slow and buggy (try opening diff files with it!). So I went to Apple software catalog and searched there. After trying five or six editors I landed on Komodo...

Yesterday found two good resources about Google Analytics:

Google Analytics talk This is a blog dedicated to Google Analytics. The company itself is approved byGoogle as Analytics consultants. Google Analytics PDF book This one is available as PDF for $9.99 and contains lots of useful information. Itis written by the author of the above mentioned blog. Highly recommended! Itcan be printed, so if you have no local O'Reily store, you can get it cheaper than anywhere. I printed and...