http://gliblog.com A glib weblog. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:19:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Panasonic, of course we'll have to call them Matsushita until the end of the year, is my latest favourite company. As I told in my previous post, I just bought a very nice piece of notebook made by them, my fifth product from their firm in the last two years. ... http://gliblog.com/26 Dear friends of all sorts of computers, the Macintosh, PC, mobile devices and whatsoever. Today I'd like to talk about my new experiences regarding my new operating system: Windows XP. Well I am late, really late, although it seems some other folks around are just now experiencing the same ... http://gliblog.com/25 So you thought you've already seen everything? You were waiting for Web 3.5 beta to arrive, right? Instead, there is a really cool thing going on on Flickr. The Library of Congress is constantly uploading more and more of their photo archives in an unprecedented effort of making remarkable pictures ... http://gliblog.com/22 When I found this, I got really lucky! Floopy, isn't it? http://gliblog.com/18 Thats a long title, isn't it? "Why free content is utterly important to our modern society.", I could have abbreviated that to something like "Why 'for-free' is fun!", but that wouldn't quite have had the same connotation. Free content, like them Linux-Gurus say "Free Beer", that is. Free as in "you can do ... http://gliblog.com/19 Walls, fences, oceans and mountains, all of them can serve the purpose of a border. The true idea of a border is to set an end to one state, and the beginning to another. But what exactly is a state? In this short article I'll tell you. First of all, we ... http://gliblog.com/14 Today I found out about Amazon's (new) portable book substitute named "Kindle". Its name — first of all — reminded me of the German word Kind, which means child. Maybe its the child of books? Then to kindle sth. itself came to my mind, having said this you probably will look at ... http://gliblog.com/11 If we look at cheap places to live at, aesthetics is almost always disregarded due to expensiveness. In their new article, PingMag tries to take us on a trip through Ken Oyama's world of housing complexes. Besides having taken stunning photographs of these otherwise (I'm sorry to tell) boring spaces, he ... http://gliblog.com/10 Today I discovered a very interesting approach to a Human Machine Interface called "InfoTouch". Long sought after ease and simplicity — lets say its very minimal for its own sake — is to be brought by this development of students at the Cognitive Science Programme at Linköping University, Sweden. When the ... http://gliblog.com/9 After World War II, many things have changed in Asia. Japan had to withdraw from all of its colonies, other nations began to occupy the released space. So happened with the island of Taiwan. Being a part of the Japanese Empire since 1895, it soon became one of the most prosperous places in Asia ... http://gliblog.com/1