Steve Jobs died today. He was fighting with pancreatic cancer since 2004 and this time he lost. This is someone who change the world and not just once but several times. I have my problems with some of the Apple policies but I was always impressed with his creativity and ability to start anew and make something great. So thank you for Apple, Pixar ( Read more... )

It suddenly got cold this weekend (from 30C to 16) and it started to feel like autumn. The air is clear and crisp and I woke up in the night because I was too cold and had to get the comforter out. I'm sleeping underneath it tonight as it's suppose to be just 4C. I know I was born to live in moderate climate because I realised I missed wearing ( Read more... )

George R.R. Martin got on the Time 100 Most Influential People list. An SFF writer has been noticed outside genre media. What a television show can do. At least HBO one. But then Michelle Bachmann also got on the list just to remind us influential too often means just attracting attention.

I knew about meet and plants but I had no idea that you ( Read more... )

The difference between Ray Kurzweil and a priest is that there is a slight of truth in what Ray believes in.It doesn't make his University any less a scam but at least it's better science fiction then Scientology. It's like UFO believers. All they say is almost completely made up but there is evidence that supports the possibility of ( Read more... )

I finally went to see Tron: Legacy and from the number of people in the cinema there were plenty of others who postponed it too.

I loved the visuals. The bikes, the planes and the game. The remaking of all the amazing parts of the Grid. All that made me stare in awe as a kid and leave the movie thinking computers are cool and I want that too. From ( Read more... )

Yesterday all the sites of Gawker Media started showing warnings about hacker attack on their servers that led to stealing passwords to the users commenting accounts. They are asking people to change their passwords on their and any other site they use same password (especially if they use the same username). The passwords were coded but now that ( Read more... )

I haven't used internet explorer for years. I started with Netscape actually. I then used the IE for a little while but I returned to Netscape soon as I wanted to have a browser for my own. My parents preferred IE then as it had Polish version. But then IE got progerssively worse and worse so my parents switched to Firefox and we all mostly forgot ( Read more... )

Today my new laptop arrived but I only had it for a moment before it was sent to the people who will install all the software and put it in the network so it'll be few more days before I'm able to use it. Still that means I'm soon to be a modern, 21st century girl again. And I will finally get back on Skype and look at my cat. And my family of ( Read more... )

A teacher in Austin, Texas confiscated Linux CDs one student gave others because "No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful". I can understand that someone might never have heard about GNU and the idea of OpenSource programming and about Linux. Everyone has to have their first sometime.

But she later writes that she talked to ( Read more... )