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Monday, January 24, 2005
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Updating the CV -- Comment()
Beginning of the year, time to update my CV. I only added my new title (Director of Science support, since Jan 1st, 2005), and a few articles. In the previous update I added a new title, a new child, and a dozen articles, so the new update was a minor one in comparison.
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Today is the most depressing day of the year: "Why scientists believe January 24 is the most depressing day of the year." [Guardian Unlimited]
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Titan's Streams Like Earth's: "The first official analysis of data from the Huygen's space probe reveals arroyos and lake beds on the surface of Saturn's hazy moon, Titan. It's like Earth used to be, say scientists." [Wired News]
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Where was desktop search when we needed it? "The Gmail experiment has become a lifestyle choice. I still maintain a local Outlook mail store, and it's indexed several ways, but I rarely need to search it." [Tomalak's Realm]
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2005 - the year of VoIP? -- Comment()
Google Plans Free VoIP In the UK: "Google may be preparing to offer free Voice Over IP telephone service in the UK. This sounds related to a previous Slashdot article about Google starting to buy dark fiber. So what are they planning? A free service like Skype (computer to computer only) or more along the lines of Lingo or Vonage?" This may be the year of VoIP. I wrote a 'visions for 2005' article for the MikroPC magazine (issue 1/2005), predicting this should happen. But is the technology ripe yet?
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Using X11 on Mac OS X -- Comment()
Every so often I'm asked about using X11 on Mac OS X. Now the question can be answered easily, because Apple Developer Connection offers an excellent short tutorial on X11.
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