Monday 27 April 2009

Out of Print

I like O'Reilly's books. They're well-written, well-researched, and a lot of fun to read. They are also very cool, because O'Reilly, probably better than anyone else in the IT publishing business, know how to market their books (think The Camel Book if you don't believe me, and resign yourself to "I need to find another blog to read" if you don't get this particular geek reference). I would love to write for them some day.

In the meantime, I frequently surf over to their site, reading the blogs, browsing the catalogue, and planning my next buy. And sometimes I just read stuff here and there. Today, I browsed the list of out-of-print books and found this:
I LOL'd, as they say. Yes, a book from January 1900 is probably out of print by now, but I had no idea that XML was that old.

Friday 17 April 2009

TomTom and Microsoft

Apparently TomTom and Microsoft have promised not to sue each other for the next five years. The settlement came soon after TomTom countersued and joined forces with the open source movement.

I can't decide if I like this or not.

Tuesday 7 April 2009

Anticlimax

My persistent Debian-related WiFi problems finally got solved. The other day, I sat at a restaurant, working away, and decided to try the WiFi. The laptop connected, immediately, with no problems whatsoever.

This got me thinking.

Apparently, Debian and the Intel drivers couldn't be to blame. It had to be a router issue. So I upgraded my Netgear router firmware (I have both a gateway and a repeater, so there were two machines to consider), and voilá! I had a working WiFi connection at home.