A Light in the Darkness

Usability discovery of the day: When running Midnight Commander within a GNU Screen terminal, the mouse cannot by default be used to mani...

Everytime I tried to check for Windows updates, I was only shown "Restart your computer to install important updates", though I al...

I love the program VistaSwitcher and can only recommend it warmly (it runs on Windows XP or higher (despite its name) and is freeware). Wi...

Bruce Dickey: Ancor che col Partire (Angelus ad Pastores)

(thick, impenetrable white fog even now at 11 o'clock) Im Nebel Seltsam, im Nebel zu wandern! Einsam ist jeder Busch und Stein, Kei...

So now we've got our first snow for the season (there was already some snow or snow-rain yesterday, but today it is remaining on the gro...

Four inspiring talks about quite different topics: Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success Josh Silver demonstrates adjust...

My favourite German-English online dictionary, dict.cc , is becoming more than that — they are matching up German and English with Danish, S...

I watched US President Obama's press conference live this evening and was once again impressed by his sensible, measured words, as well ...

Last night I saw a good "Google Tech Talk" presentation by software-testing professor James Whittaker (at the time of the talk wo...