I am a regular subscriber of Linux Magazine RSS feed and something like a month ago I came across this post by Dmitri Popov. He talks about application called “Chandler” that helps you organise your data in a convenient and straight forward way. After reading what Dmitri had to say about Chandler, I was tempted to try it myself. Especially, considering the fact that I was looking for a good notes management application for quite a while. Following are my thoughts about this nifty program as well as some pitfalls occurred to me while using it. more…
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I liked this one:
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
This was probably said around 200 years ago, but still stands today. Who would’ve thought…
New forum software installed and seems functional. You are encouraged to use the forum – it is for you.
Why do we have daylight saving? Who needs that? Why is it good?
Here in Australia we switched to “summer time” recently (in some states) and I was just wondering why? People came to work looking like they haven’t slept for years and it will take a few days for our bodies to get used to the new time. It will most probably cause a lot of confusion with meetings times also.
And please, don’t tell me about electricity saving – total crap. DST was introduced almost 100 years ago and the main purpose was to save electricity. Studies at that time showed little to no effect. Now days, in most of the office building lights are on regardless of whether its dark or not outside and residential electricity usage is somewhere around 3%. Although, some install motion detectors – this is much more saving. The question stands, why punishing people with DST?
Good news – registration is enabled again and you have to be registered to place a comment. I’m working on the new forum at the moment and it should be available in a few days.
