I just installed the new Firefox 2.0 beta 2. There are a few nice improvements over 1.5:
The most visible change is the new theme. The changes are pretty subtle but seem to be aimed at improving usability.
One of my petpeeves: the lack of a search button in the toolbar has been fixed. The go button, [...]
I just got back from Baltimore where I had a nice hotel room on the 21st floor with a view on the Baltimore skyline and harbor. In other words, I just had to shoot some nice panorama pictures. This afternoon I spent some time stitching them together. There are various tools you can use for [...]
Tagged photography, reviewsI spent yesterday traveling to Baltimore, USA. Quite a lot of stress and uncertainty is involved these days due to the USA overreacting to terrorist threats. Most of the measures are not really effective but they certainly are time consuming.
The first part of my journey was a regular european flight from Helsinki to Frankfurt. Everthing [...]
Next week, I am attending the Software Product Line Conference 2006 in Baltimore. I’m presenting a paper in on variability mechanisms in service grids (posted about this a few months ago) and two workshop papers.
I submitted a paper to the Managing Variability for Software Product Lines: Working With Variability Mechanisms. The paper, which I wrote [...]
You may recall some of my recent frustrated posts regarding the poor state of web services in java. While I still stand 100% behind these comments, I’ve found a somewhat more convenient way of implementing web services using JAX WS 2.0 now. I spent a few hours with jboss 4.0.4 AG to explore its implementation [...]
Tagged javaI’ve visited my good friend Michel Jaring in Oulu this weekend to check out his nice place, eat some makkara and admire the latest member of his family. 12 photos is of course a piece of cake compared to 190 so I put them online already.
Tagged photographyI finally finished editing the many photos from my holiday. I’ve dropped about one third of the pictures and polished the 190 remaining photos. This was a lot of work obviously but much less (per photo) than last year when I still had to struggle with the powershot A40 which required extensive fiddling with color [...]
Tagged photographyI recently got a new phone for testing purposes which is equiped with our new open source browser, wifi, a full keyboard and a nice screen with pretty good resolution (it’s the Nokia E70). Anyway, my regular photo site contains a nice collection of pictures but is a bit too heavy for this otherwise nice [...]
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