Alan Kay says

"Once you have something that grows faster than education grows, you’re always going to get a pop culture".

Working from home

I'm working from home second time. Today is not mostly due to any compelling factors, but mostly just to identify how things go.
So, I guess, it is more productive than at the office. Not much more, but more. At least, for common development tasks and documentation paperwork.

Jin Kim

He's a designer, Walt Disney Animation Studios.
His blog is full of magnificent sketches, take a look.

New old windows

Now I have changed the operating system on my work laptop. Now it is windows 7. Seems it works faster that windows XP on the same hardware. How did they do that?

WindowsXP on my work laptop has been becoming slower and slower. Very annoying. It takes about 5..7 minutes to launch up the system, and after a day or two of continious work it begins stalling from time to time. Only reboot helps. Not sure how to tune it, or what can be done.

C++ 11 released

Hey, Herb Sutter tells C++ has been released. Finally. On 2011.10.10.
Paper drafts are here. Offical ISO releases aren't free, I do not comment how to get them. But, indeed, I'm guessing there should be a few differencies between them and the drafts.

Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup

UI thoughts

Right now I'm steadily reading Jef Raskin's "Interfaces" one more time.

Finding the following: if you have no taskbar on your desktop) let's assume you have not) then you definitely not need minimize (or hide) buttons in the windows caption. At the same time, I guess, there is no need to have the maximize button; moreover, it's application business to do this (if it can, of course).

But, if the mouse is your primary input device, then the taskbar may be the fastest way to switch between tasks...

The lunatic is in my head (c)

Great Ball Contraption

Personally, I like such things.

And one more:

Scott Weaver's Rolling through the Bay from Learning Studio on Vimeo.

Some more Simon's Cats

Oh, no room for Bender, huh? Fine! I'll go build my own lunar lander, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack. Ah, screw the whole thing.

Honda. Impossible dream.

I like the movie:

Opening dacha season, this April

Buy... eat...

(from here)

And here emailing also works?

Basically, it's a good idea to use different domain names for the blog and for its user interface.

American English vs British English

Let's take the news headline "Bishops agree sex abuse rules" (from a british newspaper). British english, yes.
But the americans would say the same as "Bishops agree on sex abuse rules". Without on it would take some different meaning for an american guy.
Rulez?
And is that so?

LJ suffers from unevident network problems.

Meditation

Top 5 from Google. 1911, a hundred years ago.

Frankly speaking, I don't like this 'fools day'. Mostly, I'd say I hate it sometimes.