Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Friday, December 19, 2008

Passion and fulfillment

Interesting perspective. Fulfillment is an interesting thing to contemplate. It seems that goals don't make happiness: once you achieve your goals, that's it, there is no infinite pleasure after that.

Think about it: a lot of people think they'll be happy if only they had a lot of money. What they don't realize is that they do, actually, have a lot of money, as well as many other things they take for granted, if we compare them to, say, someone in a civil war zone in Somalia. And yet, these privileged people are not necessarily happy.

The idea of dirty but fulfilling jobs demonstrates that, more importantly than aiming to make money, is the challenge of "now".

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Dry Routing

Clever. I'm surprised to see that it's possible to do annotations in PHP.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Visual Event

This looks useful. Assuming you use JQuery, YUI or Mootools.

Web 2.0 is dead? Says who?

The list of fastest rising searches worldwide from Google Zeitgeist shows some unfamiliar searches: tuenti, nasza klasa and wer kennt wen.

Guess what: they're all social networking from different parts of the world. Clicking through some of the countries also show other social network sites being prominent: orkut in Brazil and India, facebook in several other countries.

Monday, December 8, 2008

When Linux fails

Nice and down to earth article.

Native Client

This looks very interesting. If we can bind C code to the browser, that probably means we can also run Python, Ruby and a whole plethora of other incredibly cool stuff.