Universal Rule

Book Reviews

Tietoyhteys magazine (in Finnish)

CSC News magazine (in English)

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

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Lem's doodles:

"Wonderful galley of the doodles of Stanislaw Lem." [Boing Boing Blog]

Lem was at one point my favorite writer. I read his book Kyberias (the Finnish translation) so many times I could recite long passages from memory. That is all lost now, and I don't think I could enjoy those texts as well as I could twenty years ago.

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Writing Non-native English is a story about how hard it is to write creatively in English when you are not a native speaker. Of course, writing professional articles and research papers is a (somewhat) different matter than writing fiction or other non-professional types of texts.

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Another nice feature of Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) is the character map tool. It is no substitute for LaTeX in writing mathematics, but it can help in writing text using the Unicode character set. See the screen capture.

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I like the new spam filter of the Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) Mail program a lot. For several days now I have had very little spam getting through. Here is a recent snapshot. See the screen capture.

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I tried Google searches of the terms "universal rule" and weblog. This was a typical item:

"The closest thing to a universal rule is that most men like a woman who's comfortable with her body, whatever her body happens to look like."

It seems that the words "universal rule" are quite often used about the way men regard women. Hmm... I didn't quite have this in mind when I named the blog.

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No separate MS app server. It seems that Intel and Microsoft are slowly building up the momentum for Palladium. First they admit that the current technology has problems, and then they offer (their) solution, before the competition has a chance to step in. However, perhaps the IT experts and consumers have already learned something: Windows 3, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP all promised to solve the problems of the previous systems, and didn't.

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Noticed an interesting blog: Private Ink. Have to read through some more posts to find what the current items really mean. At first you savour the style and the feel of the blog. If that interests you then you want to check more carefully if this is really something you want to follow. There are so many thigs happening in the blogland that it is impossible to find all those that move or motivate you.

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There is a nice hint about Ssh tunneling at Mac OS X Hints. However, you should take care that the ports which you open on your Mac are not accessible from outside your machine. Use the built-in firewall and only allow the ssh protocol!