Krazy Glew's Blog

Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Deinterleaved blogs

It has long annoyed me that I have been using blogger and google+1 recently as the easiest way to take notes. Last night I coded up bookma...

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Bookmarks need labels, just like Email, tasks, Calendar, ...

Let's see: * I've tried using my Gmail label system as my To do list. Labels good. Flat labels bad. * I just had the bright idea...

Hardlinks vs. Softlinks

What do we learn from the history of UNIX hardlinks vs. softlinks? First, UNIX hardlinks did not really help much for directories, because...

Hierarchical labels don't cut it

Some systems have hiearchical labels. E.g. Gmail - in some configurations Label/Sub appears to have label Label and sublabel Sub - but in ...

Tag items not just with labels, but label paths

Gmail Adds Nested Labels and Message Preview : 'via Blog this' Brain flash: I was, for the umpteenth time, looking for better ma...

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Multiple paths of history

I have blogged, whined, ranted and complained about systems that allow you to, nay, encourage you to, edit history. But I also whine about ...

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

How to capture a screen image with transient flyovers in VNC

I usually work in VNC, on a UNIX box, typically from a Windows PC latop. I occasionally want to capture screen clippings of GUI applicatio...

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