From math teaching to property riches
A very interesting article in The Guardian tells the story of a nice elderly couple from Ashford, UK, which has built a property empire worth £280 …
XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0 and .NET
I was deeply disappointed to discover, that .NET framework 2.0 didn’t contain XQuery implementation. Apparently, it was included in one of the …
Windows Server 2003 SP2
Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 has been released. To be honest, I don’t understand why the changes required a whole SP - the list is …
Electrolux manuals
I tried to find manuals for Electrolux kitchen appliances in my new house. I was pleasantly surprised to find all of them on the manufacturer’s …
Firefox 2 on FC6
The official build of Fedora Core 6 doesn’t include Firefox version 2, rather the outdated 1.5. Fortunately, a French RPM repository seems to …
Software, that sucks
So, what is the software that I hate the most? The list could be long, but some applications are internal to places where I worked and are unknown to …
Flash player 9 for Linux
At last, there is a downloadable beta of the Macromedia (now Adobe?) flash player 9 for Linux. For quite a long time release of the Linux version was …
Is that the beginning of the end?
Property-related indexes are falling on LSE, according to an article in Financial Times. Many analytics mention in their comments, that current …
Picasa sucks - AcdSee rules!
I have just installed AcdSee - and I can tell you it is way better than Google’s Picasa. Starting with the simple thing - full screen viewing, …