Category Archives: tech

Blogger and Time

And no, I don’t have a bloody clue why blogger messes up the order of dates in nightly postings… Probably got something to do with timezones…
*edit:* Sent support query, fixed it promptly. And that for a free service. Ta!

I can post Desktops, too

My Desktop I had the idea of putting up a semi-random snapshot regularly. Unfortunately, not that much has been picture worthy recently. The weather is pretty drab, and I haven’t been anywhere exciting.
So, to start off with a bang (ahem), here’s my desktop!
Spot any or all the the following: el-cheapo DVD-player, Gamecube, coffee-cup with no coffee, auto-winding wristwatch that doesn’t autowind, Bluetooth headset, Griffin PowerMate, 5.1 amp, old-ish Sony Clié, two USB LED-displays, and various other stuff…

iTunes for Windows

Apple’s iTunes 4.1 is out for Windows as well as for MacOS. After having taken a look at it, I’ve got to say that it seems quite nifty. Too bad my iPod is acting up (FireWire disconnects seemingly randomly and I am unable to get a reply from Apple (and their Web-Form is broken))…

Enter Azureus

While I really like the concept of BitTorrent, the official client always hangs for me eventually (usually somewhen after 5 to 30min). I suspect it’s some sort of multi-threading / locking issue with Python (as I’m using a it on a SMP-machine). Thus enters Azureus, a Java-client, which seems much nicer anyway.