Brett Simmons of NetNewsWire opines upon the crappiness of Apples Mail.app. The interviewer has a useful plugin which strips off some of the Mail.app Tiger-interface-hokiness. The interview also points to the free Mail-act-on which addresses a few shortcomings by adding keyboard shortcuts for common actions. Its interesting that email applications seem to be getting more annoying with time rather than less annoying . . .

Long overdue - KDE Light / SimpleKDE. If you're tired of all the graphical gee-gaws that seem to be make up a modern GUI return to a simpler time via SimpleKDE which attempts to provide all the GUI goodness without the complexity. Or just use Ion ;-)

I found this interesting - Wordpress on a stick. Run a Wordpress blog using PHP, Apache & MySQL running from a USB memory stick. Handy for testing. The T2 site also hosts a number of other related Wordpress 'Howto' guides.

We got pounded by heavy 100kmh winds Friday and Saturday night. I'd hate to have been in the ferry making the Cook Strait crossing. Eight hours in a storm (normally a three our trip) would be murder. I've crossed in similar circumstances back in 1995 - not pleasant but I did manage manage to avoid throwing up. More local news - The NZ State Services Commission releases guidelines for Open Source licensing. And the amusing thing is it appears as if Microsofts Law Firm Penned the Report - so the neutrality is a little suspect.

Cool - Compendium of Self Annihilating Sentences.

For the mechanically minded - Gif animated engines. If you're interested in how mechanical engines actually work.

Interesting - Why PHP Sucks. I'm no coder so I couldn't possibly comment. . .

This doesn't sound good - OSX Hacked in less than 30min. Not much detail unfortunately. Certainly come a long way since the old Crack a Mac challenge in the late 90's.

Build your own Debian system via a web page - it will step through a wizard and then present you with a downloadable iso image.

I've read about half of these - To Kill a Mockingbird tops Librarians must read list.

Martin ‘MC’ Brown writes some excellent Unix Admin Tips. Articles appear on IBM's developerworks site.

ArsTechnica reviews the Mac Mini Core Solo. Looks good. Shame about the integrated intel graphics - still doesn't seem to detract from its performance in its target audience though.