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New York Times reader
The New York Times has a great HTML reader : http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/ They’re in financial trouble, but they seem to get how the Internet should work.
Trip maps page
Hello, best wishes for the new year first of all. A new page for trip maps was added, showing the Google Maps I’ve created to show photos. Pretty soon all cameras will have GPS, so this type of map will be generated automatically.
Trip maps
Google Maps can be used to create interactive games. They’re ideal for creating maps of holiday trips. Click on them to open them. Once opened, you can click on the markers to see the pictures for that place. Clicking on the pictures shows a the picture in a bigger format on a new page. Here’s a map from my New Zealand trip : The same for a Firenze trip :
GNU chess and xboard on eee PC
The eee PC is a cool little machine. It boots up in 20 seconds, weights about a kilo and it runs Linux. What else do you want in a netbook ? A chess program would be a nice addition. Here I’ll show you how to install GNU chess and xboard. First download the following packages : the debian etch gnuchess package the debian etch xaw3dg package the debian etch xboard package You’ll need to download the i386 architecture package.