Tag Archives: general

Release: Hemingway template for Blogger

I have a personal blog in Blogger, but I never liked any of the templates available, both official and unofficial. So I just ported one of my favorite Wordpress templates to Blogger: Hemingway.
Go to the Hemingway template for Blogger page for downloads, sample sites and instructions.
Share and enjoy.

Google Checkout, Paypal killer?

Google has finally announced their long anticipated “paypal killer”. The name: Google Checkout.

One cool feature of Google Checkout is that you can buy from stores with a single Google login – no more entering the same info each time you buy, and no more having to remember different usernames and passwords for each store. To [...]

Live transmission of the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006

Ned Batchelder writes about a new service providing a live stream of all the matches in the Football World Cup in Germany via Telnet. This is like watching the world cup in the Matrix, really.

Keep reading for “screenshots”.

Stopping wordpress’ lovely spam wonderful spam with Akismet

I hate spam.

Email spam is under control thanks to SpamAssassin, but comment and trackback spam was a big problem. Wordpress antispam measures are useless. Every day I had to remove between 5 and dozens of spam-comments. I could have used a captcha or even worst, a moderation queue before a comment is displayed, but there [...]

Enjoying ubuntu: Desktop migration from FreeBSD

Months after I discovered FreeBSD’s excellent performance, and because my debian unstable desktop became, well, unstable, I decided to give FreeBSD as a desktop a try.
My desktop needs are pretty basic, I just need:

GNOME: Originally I migrated from fluxbox to Gnome to “try linux as a real final user”, now I just can’t live without [...]