alecthomas

This application is useful for resizing and moving: http://coderage-software.com/zooom/index.html

However, it's kind of ordinary that you have to pay $15 to get functionality that should be included in the WM.

And an update: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/dec09/12-15sta...

Save yourself the pain, don't.

I don't know if this is your problem, but Chrome on Linux has some memory leaks that occasionally put my 2GB desktop into swap. Luckily I can use the Chrome task manager to find the offending tab and kill it.

I always thought Cellulose (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cellulose/0.2) was an interesting idea, though haven't done anymore than play around with it.

I also think this was one of the factors in PHP's popularity. Its documentation was (is?) excellent.

> And now I have a dedicated device (iPhone) to play music. I only use iTunes to sync.

Same here, but I consider that a failing of iTunes, because I'd prefer to play music on my iPhone rather than deal with iTunes shitty interface.

At my two previous employers, that's exactly what they do. All machines are completely locked-down. I suspect this is not unusual at large, more traditional corporations.

I can't comment on the veracity of Telstra's speed claims, but Optus' are a complete joke. Most of the time I'm lucky to get even modem level speeds out of my 3G card, let alone 3.2Mbps. Once again, the schpiel quotes the theoretical maximum and conveniently ignores reality.

I can't link to the article from my iPhone, but do a search for "startup forgotten founders" for some very useful advice on handling this situation.

10pm to 3am also, but I think it's just that there are no distractions.

I've found PyGTK is a joy to use, but the major downside for me is that it doesn't use native controls.

It mimics them with a theme on Windows, so presumably it looks okay (though I suspect it misses the finer details).

But on OSX, with its very distinctive widgets, GTK just looks horrible :(

Congratulations Posterous! It's really renewed my interesting in blogging, and the simplicity is 100% to thank.

Interesting site, it's fun to explore. It might be nice to display content inside the cell itself once clicked, or in a lightbox, as the back/forward through history is quite jarring.

Reading articles and watching videos from the engineering teams of big sites is interesting, though not always easily applicable.

For example, the Facebook Engineering Blog (http://www.facebook.com/eblog) or Google Tech Talks (http://au.youtube.com/results?search_query=google+tech+talk+...).

This is often referred to as YAGNI (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?YouArentGonnaNeedIt).