Reasons to hold my breath: 1. Photoshop Due out in November, Adobe Creative Suite, including new versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, is as likely to be a great update as any other before it. The incremental updates to Photoshop alone boggles the mind; ever since I first started using Photoshop,...

The proposal to the European parliament regarding software patents has been accepted. Does this mean that conceptual software ideas can be patented in the EU, too? No, it does not. The accepted proposal puts significant focus on the original purpose of patents; to encourage innovation. Patents are not supposed to...

There's a trailer available for Once Upon A Time In Mexico, the upcoming sequel to Desperado. Why it very well might suck: It'd been bad enough if it was just a sequel. Unfortunately though, Desperado was the sequel to El Mariachi, which makes Once Upon A Time In Mexico the...

Sun Microsystems has released what is best described as a Linux distribution, they call it the "Java Desktop System", previously known as the "Mad Hatter Project". Its main components are listed as SuSE Linux, Gnome, Ximian Evolution, Mozilla and StarOffice. So why, then, is it called "Java Desktop System"? Because...

There's an interesting piece on the NY Time's Paul Krugman in the Guardian. Well, it's from two days ago, but the delay is a side-effect I'm willing to live with since I rely on the blogosphere to weed the good stuff out for me. While I've read a couple of...

Somebody check the temperature in hell. George W. Bush, President of the USA and Lord of the Eternal Fires of Doom, has actually admitted there is no proof Saddam Hussein was behind the attack on 9/11 2001. On second thought, hell is probably as hot as always. Instead of proof,...

I sent an e-mail to EPoX Europe, in The Netherlands, asking what to do about my broken motherboard. A friendly support tech by the name of Michael told me that the integrated network adapter is indeed borked, but only in some hardware configurations. Michael didn't say which "configurations" those are,...

Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh died this morning from multiple stab wounds which was afflicted to her yesterday evening when she was attacked at a shopping mall in central Stockholm. The murderer is still at large and there are, as far as I know, no suspects. There are, however, a...

I received my new computer parts a couple of days ago which I've, since then, struggled to get up and running. At first, it seemed like I had dodged any imaginable errors as the system got up and running without a hitch, but then it started crashing over and over...

Still today, there is not a shred of evidence that supports the idea that Saddam Hussein was involved in or responsible for 9/11. It depends on how thin you spread the concept of "evidence" of course; some would argue that something as simple as a "pretty well confirmed" correspondance constitutes...

Every now and then, for well over six months, someone has been posting one-liner comments throughout my weblog. That someone always posts comments using the name "zip codes" and always enters the same web address in the URL field. I won't mention the URL of course, as this would benefit...

Everyone's entitled to one, right? Except celebrities of course. Should an actor happen to mention anything except that last movie they were in, how much fun they had filming it and how great the cast was, they are more often than not instructed by people who are entitled to an...

I received an e-mail from myself today..