All hail Fastweb!

I know this is going to annoy some people, and I never thought I’d write the following sentence. Today, Fastweb, purveyors of internet access and telephonic services to the patient, delivered more than they promised.

This morning our modem went pfft. With it died the telephone....

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Another wonderful piece of software has landed in my lap. Workflowy (gack!) is “just” an online form to, you know, write shit down. I’ve been a GTD freak for a while now, not obsessively, but enough to get me through my days. And I’ve always found that the old hipster PDA served me better than...

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2021-12-24: This post is so out-dated it makes my head spin. But worth keeping nevertheless.

The preceding post1 is something I am inordinately proud of. Doesn't look like much, does it? But trust me, it is.

A while ago I discovered Scoop.it, which makes content curation rather easy. Con...

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xkcd cartoon about privacy

The main reason I’m linking to this xkcd, Privacy, is that the mouseover text uses the exact same joke that Sydney Brenner used when the 1975 Asilomar meeting decided to put a temporary halt to recombination in the laboratory.

Social media are in turmoil, and I’m riding out the storm. Not to be too dramatic or anything, but a lot of cheese has been moved around, and I’m trying to cope.

First off, Google disabled the social aspects of Google Reader, likely to send us all scurrying to [Google Plus] https://plus.google.c...

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