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I always log what I'm doing in electronic form, so that later I just need to search in my notes. I hate to solve the same proplem twice, and I solve too many problems to remember all the ugly details, whenever I need to do something again I just go back to the solution I've saved for later.

It should work with drag and drop, accepts URLs, command lines, code snippets, screen dumps, files and images. I can also usefully link this information to project/task and time tracking.

The thing is, it must be available at all times, in a window somewhere on my desktop, automatically write down the time and the machine I'm working from. And save it somewhere safe.

Oh, and I forgot, I usually use more than one machine, so the clipboard / scrapbook client should be running on several systems, too.  Like, for instance, Linux and Windows.

At last!  No more waking up suddenly with keys punched in you cheeks, ears ringing with the auto-repeat beep, your keyboard all slimy and messed up because not only did you pass out in front of your computer, but you slobbered on it, too.

The Emergency Keyboard Airbag is there.

Curieusement, le plaisir de prendre des photos en numérique donne envie de refaire de l'argentique.  Par exemple, mon Yashica FR-I d'occasion a deux objectifs Yashica, monture Yashica/Contax, et je comptais trouver des Zeiss d'occasion pour les remplacer.

Et il y en a plein, je les liste ici pour référence:

Série Planar:

Planar T* 1.4/50
Planar T* 1.7/50
Planar T* 1.4/85
Planar T* 2/100 (TS)

Sonnar:

Sonnar T* 2.8/85
Sonnar T* 2.8/135
Sonnar T* 2.8/180
Aposonnar T* 2/200

Tessar:

Tessar T* 2.8/45 
Tele-Apotessar T* 2.8/300
Tele-Tessar T* 4/300

Makro-Plannar:

Makro-Planar T* 2.8/60
Makro-Planar T* 2.8/60 C
Makro-Planar T* 2.8/100

Vario-Sonnar:

Vario-Sonnar T*3.5-4.5/28-70
Vario-Sonnar T* 3.3-4.0/28-85
Vario-Sonnar T* 3.4/35-70
Vario-Sonnar T* 3.3-4.5/35-135 (TS)
Vario-Sonnar T* 4/80-200
Vario-Sonnar T* 4.5-5.6/100-300

Distagon:

Distagon T* 3.5/15
Distagon T* 2.8/28
F- Distagon T* 2.8/16
PC-Distagon T* 2.8/35
Distagon T* 1.4/35
Distagon T* 4/18
Distagon T* 2.8/21 (TS)
Distagon T* 2.8/35
Distagon T* 2.8/25

Et si j'en trouve un d'occasion, un Yashica Electro 35 GSN. La chasse est ouverte.

Plein de photos prises avec ces objectifs sur le site Contax Images

Tableau synoptique des boîtiers Contax http://www.photozone.de/2Equipment/contax.htm

En italien, des données sur les objectifs http://www.geocities.com/ilprode/TestZ.htm

Two years ago I decided to move all my Unix stuff from work to home, and use it for some other activities as well:

• locally:
• jukebox / family radio: convert our huge CD collection to mp3, play it on the HiFi system. This saved us from staring at the shelves trying to decide what to put in the player and... where the hell is it anyway?
  
• backup files from my other computers
• Samba server for additional disk space
  
• from everywhere:
• to check my students' exercises and projects
• version my files with CVS
• try and use LAMP software
  
• ssh, FTP, you name it...
• build a private shared communication space for my friends
• run mailing-lists
  

And I wanted it to be small.

I've been checking about 15 groupware/project management systems, and I have accumulated a few features that I really need. Besides, the bottom line is: it must not get in the way.

A hilarious 5MB QuickTime video (via Gizmodo):

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/ipod/qualuudinous-ipod-world-video-029622.php

Back in the days, geeks sported fun T-shirts and drank coffee in fun mugs... Then I saw more and more plush toys on computer monitors.

Tux, Devil, or Gnu mascots are great.  But I thought... What about bugs?  Yes, bugs, the side effects and glitches and crashes that come with technology, that never seem to totally go away, that have this autonomous quality of creations escaping the control of their creators. And when they come up, they're one good reason why we have to spend so much time making things work... again.

Gremlins would make great plush bugs.  So do moths, for historical reasons.  A mutated Mothra, for badmoviebuffological reasons. And Thinkgeek's plush microbes, for biological reasons. 

Bugs should be ugly, right? Later I found these oddball Ikea soft toys:

They should have names.  Memory leak? Uninitialized variable?  Unchecked error status?  Buffer overflow?

So, what do you think would make the best computer bug mascot?

When I'm interested by a camera, I go to the Comparometer and check the photos side by side:

http://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM

Usually removes any doubt.