Talk about information overload! I currently have 1675 unread items on my main blog roll in [Bloglines](http://www.bloglines.com). I just exported the OPML file of my subscriptions and imported it into [Flock’s](http://www.flock.com) RSS aggregator but as I’m sure that this only shows a few days worth, I’ll feel guilty forever unless I go through the list on Bloglines. I have to say Flock’s RSS reader is lovely to look at and very slick....
As reported today on TechCrunch Serbian developer Ilija Studen has released a free clone of the popular project management service Basecamp. Studen’s product is called ActiveCollab. It differs from Basecamp (a hosted web application for which, if you have more than one project or a team larger than 2, you pay a monthly subscription to use) in that the product is free and open source. It is also a PHP5/MySQL application that indiduals, small companies, and even, presumably, Universities can download and install on their own web server....
> In any programming language, a program to print “hello world” is a classic opener. It is also a useful indication of the complexity of the language, particularly from the point of view of the teacher and the learner. [Hello World (Java) – LiteratePrograms](http://en.literateprograms.org/Hello_World_(Java)) technorati tags:[blogging](http://technorati.com/tag/blogging), [flock](http://technorati.com/tag/flock), [literate.programming](http://technorati.com/tag/literate.programming), [blog](http://technorati.com/tag/blog), [cpj](http://technorati.com/tag/cpj) Blogged with [Flock](http://www.flock.com “Flock”)
I needed to typeset two small figures side-by side in a document today. Tried minipages and twocolumns but to no avail. Then I found this little tip: Just put the figures into cells of a table! Simple, elegant and quite probably obvious. Thanks to Matt Guthaus for this one!
Spent a nice weekend in Hedon with with my mom Sheila and her partner Terry (Pictured). This entry is really an excuse to use Picassa which I’ve just installed along with the Google Desktop Package. Picassa has the best UI for photo album work that I’ve seen and it also produces great CDs for exchange with friends. An it’s free!