Andy's Mind

I’ve discovered Digg only last Thursday but I already love it. Thanks to it I read about a few things I had no idea existed. Of those the High Dynamic Range photography is a true discovery for me. (more…)

The morning didn’t bring anything new. But it’s good to have friends, talking to them helps put things into new prospective and move forward. And that’s exactly what happened. So, I think I’ll go & have some sleep now. I have another post brewing in mind, but it’ll have to wait till the morning.

I’m in an interesting state tonight. I can’t force myself to go to sleep yet again. So I’m up, too tired to work, not tired enough to retire. And what I’m trying to do is postpone the judgement, defer the evaluation of the last events and their meaning. Even though said meaning seems pretty obvious (and predictable) it’s wiser to wait until I’d really have to act. To act some evaluation of known facts leading to a belief on how things stand is indispensable. Before that it’s unnecessary.

But it’s so hard to stop the mind from jumping to conclusions.

It has been long debated why there is not much new, exciting software for open source platforms like Linux, especially office tools and user toys. An article precisely about this in OSWeekly made it to Slashdot creating all kind of technical and ideological discussions. It’s really interesting how technology concentrated geeks just plainly miss the most important point which is money. (more…)