September 2007

I somehow rearranged my workspace today so that my LCD is now in front of me and my notebook resides on my right, which makes working a whole lot more comfortable.

Problem is that I have to use my old keyboard again which is pretty loud and just doesn’t feel right. So I gonna buy an Apple keyboard as soon as I’ll be home again (gonna leave for Corsica tomorrow morning). I checked Amazon for prices (I know, there’s the Apple store) and stumbled over a little detail which bugged me for some time now: The typeface of the search field.

Have you noticed that most parts of Amazon’s website use a sans-serif type but the searchbox uses a fixed font, which is, at least on my WinXP box, Times New Roman. That makes the whole thing look a bit ugly and old. Any plans to change this, Amazon?

I started reading Behance about three months ago when I discovered an article titled Tip: Surround Yourself With Progress (which is a great tip, by the way, gonna do it for the writing of my bachelor thesis).

Anyway, today I discovered a neat little icon at the bottom of an article at Behance which I find really creative and motivating for the author: The Appreciate button. It basically does what it says, click it and you gonna appreciate the article - looks like some sort of mini-Digg. I very much like the idea behind this, seems to be a reasonable method for me, who can’t stand all those Digg buttons on blogs.

Yesterday I had some problems with a Vista PC whose Internet Explorer wouldn’t open any URI (including IP addresses). Strange thing is that I could ping the ip and the name, and even the check connectivity function could connect to the web. Installing Firefox fixed the problem, kind of.

And another one on my XP machine today (note that it says en-US in the address bar):

@Mr Jobs: Mac OS X Leopard, beginning of October?