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subversion
The word on the street says subversion is finally ready for prime time . You may recall some bizarre IP disputes – apparently these have been resolved at this point. Apparently it’s much like CVS, basically designed to be “a better CVS” and they’ve kept the CVS syntax except in areas where it really needed to be fixed. They’ve fixed versioning to work across file renames, directories, binary files, improved merging and branch support. Comparisons to the best commercial products come out favorably.
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Esther Dyson and her office photo
I’m a bit of a fan of her , here’s a fantastic picture I just found of Esther Dyson in her office .
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Now I can get a G5
Virtual PC 7 is out and it supports the G5 finally. I use VPC to emulate Windows and Linux for symbian development. I mount the drive in Mac OS X so I still get to use XCode :-)
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axkit almost 2 years later
It’s getting close to the 2 year anniversary of when I first started using AxKit . Ever since Matt Sargent posted his success story on axkit-users I’ve been thinking about my own success story with AxKit, it’s been highly satisfying.
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watch the debate in realvideo
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Listen to my grandfather, Willson Woodside
I’m told that if you’re old enough (like you were older than 16 when WWII broke out) and you live in Canada, you may remember the name Willson Woodside. He was my grandfather and gave a five-minute report every evening on the news for the CBC, from Europe, about the status of the war. He died when I was I was young, and was sick for a long time before that, but this voice out of the past still has a somewhat familiar sound (and familiar mannerisms definitely). It’s an archived report on the CBC from 1950, where he analyses the Korean War. I’m happy to say that his foreshadowing of an escalation of that war failed to occur! I also just wrote an article in Wikipedia about him, and it’s incomplete, so fill in the details if you know them (or email them to me and I’ll do it). (Fast forward to time index 4:32 to hear him.)
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50 years of graphics
A cool timeline with pictures .
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W visual explanation, version 1.1
This is an updated version of the graphic from this earlier version .
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infographics
An infographic / information graphic is a visual explanation. The point is to visualize some data, information, wisdom, story, etc, into a form that appeals to the visual centers of the brains. A well made infographic, in my opinion, can explain some concepts much better than text.
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W's air guard record in visual format
Update: There’s a new version 1.1 now that’s a lot easier to read (but shows the same data).
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