Our company was using Rational Clearcase for version control about 6 years ago. The developers decided it was way to clunky, error prone and WAY too expensive. We introduced CVS and it has been working fine for a few years now. CVS is widely known, stable and simple. I looked into using SVN a few years ago but the …

Just noticed a funny Google Maps parody video. Enjoy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgV6-gnQaE&rel=1]

With the "Wake-up Light", Philips has taken the "dawn simulator" from "alternative/hippie" to "trendy". Cleverly marketing it as simply a pleasant way to wake up, making it available in many stores and adding "trendy" pricing, Philips has a lot of people looking into …

For some strange reason, Philips doesn't provide you with a manual when you buy a Wake-up light. For those of you who want to download the full manual, you can do so by browsing through the directory at: http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/h/hf3461_01/ The filenames are a bit strange, but looking at the last three letters …

Hi, I've read the writeups on Steve's keynote this year, and listened to some podcasts of people who were in the audience. Personally I'm a bit dissapointed by the features introduced at this Macworld. Surely it's hard to live up to the ever rising expectations every year, but I do have some comments to make on the …

Okay, I have to get this out of my system. It is something I've been complaining about for months, and it is really an example of the utter dumbness of some product designers. What am I talking about? Simply turning on my TV. I have this very nice big heavy 100Hz 4:3 Phillips Matchline TV, which I bought 8 or so years …

No, I'm not a guitar player, but I noticed this cool post on TUAW where the "Guitar Hero" game has been taken a notch up. TUAW reports that the guys at www.musicwizard.com have built "Guitar Wizzard", a game with which you can learn to play popular songs on a real guitar. From what I can see in the …

The organization of the Dakar rally has cancelled the rally because some idiots are planning terrorist attacks. Instead of doing a partial rally, or a couple of stages around Lissabon, the complete rally is cancelled. I really think this is unacceptable for all riders, sponsors and TV stations depending on this rally. …

Only 4 days until the biggest and toughest rally in the world starts in Lisboa. After 2 weeks, on the 20th of Januari, the bikes will finish their trip in Dakar (oh yes, and there will be some cars too, and some uninteresting truckers). The number to keep an eye on (again) this year is bike 041. It's Miriam Pol, who is …

A little heads-up for Apple OSX users who have lots of images to resize. There's a free tool available to do this at http://www.eagle-of-liberty.com/resizeemall/. It's donationware, if you like it you can send the author money by paypal. I've used it, and it works as advertised. Drag a bunch of images on the …