After a dearth of anything decent to write about in the technology world comes a whole bunch of interesting stuff...

One of my fave kiwi bands finally got an updated TrouserPress entry - The Chills.

Chess - Chess Tactics Explained.

A wonderful monograph on the venerable IBM Type M Keyboard. I had one in the UK and it was great - I need to get my hands on another one...

The wonderfully named Treehugger has information on new Sharp roof tiles with built in solar panels or is that solar panels in the form of roof tiles ? I wonder how efficient they are ?

ArsTechnica has a post-mortem on the Apple Intel Switch.

Andrew Roberts has written a series of tutorials on Getting to grips with Latex.

In a similar vien - Ten common typesetting mistakes in technical documentation.

Vendor specific Unix assistance via Sunhelp and a similar though less well developed SGIhelp. Note that Sun also have the excellent BigAdmin resource site.

As an ex-Waffle BBS user (via 2400 and then 14400 baud modems) this looks really interesting - BBS Documentary. My Waffle account was via Manawatu Internet Services which was setup by Alan Brown of ORBS (in)fame(y). I think the MIS Waffle BBS was superceded by their more popular SLIP/PPP service back in 1997.

Ed Brill (IBM/Lotus Blogger) points out the insanity inherent in Exchange clustering vs the capability and flexibility of Domino clustering. I'd have to agree - Microsoft Exchange is a dog - sure the client is nice to use (even here Lotus Notes 6/7 has caught up in terms of usability) but the backend is an administrative/management nightmare.

If you're after a free web stat package I highly recommend StatCounter. Since my Blosxom page count plugin died I've lost track of who has been visiting this site. The free StatCounter seems to provide greater functionality for less effort - they make their revenue from the ads when you check your site stats.