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Opera will finally stop referring to itself as Internet Explorer!

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Opera will finally stop referring to itself as Internet Explorer! This has been way past-due.

Blink link

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Mmmm… an improved blink tag.
Thanks, Toshok! (;

Google’s ups and downs

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Google Maps has a new map mode called hybrid. It’s quite nice, but it’s a bit hard to use at the moment as all the navigational images are broken thanks to the stupid SOGO search engine that has, once again, stolen Google’s domain.
Hopefully Google will be restored to its usual Googleness sometime soon.

Lunch adventures: the search for the missing restaurant

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

While Rodney and I were walking all around Kendall square trying to solve a lunchtime mystery for two consecutive days (without any clues — other than Google Maps pointing us to a field), I thought, “I should blog about this.” (Evidently, Rodney thought the same thing.)
We were searching for the highly rated Aceituna Cafe [...]

Amazing photos from Wikipedia’s Featured Pictures

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Wikipedia’s Featured Pictures page features many breathtaking pictures.

On Golden Pond

Friday, July 15th, 2005

We watched On Golden Pond over the span of two nights (we finished it up last night). I highly recommend seeing it if you haven’t already.

GIMP wishlist

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

I use the GIMP almost every day when making graphics on Linux, and I’ve been doing so for a long time.
Of the top of my head, here is a list of things I wish the GIMP had:
# *Layer grouping*
# *Recovery of unsaved and recently-not-saved files*; there is a temporary swap space, and GIMP should be [...]