George Sudarkoff

System is down

Have you noticed how they always have (or had) their system down when you point them to their mistakes? As a software engineer I feel embarrassed!

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Quite possibly it would have been a brilliant ad campaign if they website weren't down.

Dvorak keyboard layout

I switched to Dvorak keyboard layout a few days ago and although my typing speed is still slow (17WPM compared to 60WPM on QWERTY) I can tell already that it is going to be my default layout. It is way easier on your wrists and allegedly 40% faster (which I'll see if it is true in a few weeks).

Paper vs. digits

In my world paper will never beat the digits. Paper is accessible and familiar when you need to capture the ideas (especialy on the go), but paper is also inaccessible and bulky when you try to store and retrieve the information later. That everyone has been falling in love with paper lately is nothing more to me than a sign that a much better digital experience is about to emerge. And me, I'm not waiting, I am trying hard to make this happen. More about this later.

Gmail for your domain

There's a new service from Google (beta) that allows you to "give Gmail, Google's webmail service, to every user at your domain" [link]. Pretty cool for Google! Too bad I can't install it on my own server! Although it probably won't stop me from using it.