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I hope it never happens. I hope Microsoft is not going to swallow Yahoo. I clearly don’t care that MS is going to drain its resources by the acquisition and by the crusade to rewrite the whole Yahoo world in ASP.NET. I find it really sad that Yahoo is going to be killed.

One of the Internet pioneers, the only old giant still alive and making good products. Yes, it suffered from mismanagement by Terry Semel but hey, shit happens. They can survive it, I hope this hostile bid is also the case.

Folks get rid of your MSFT and YHOO stock if the transaction goes through.

http://smilingyulka.livejournal.com/8715.html

Happy birthday, my dear friend. You’ve already got your main present, right?

Here’s the demo, features, and details of the new release:

Date: January 14, 2008.
Time: 11:03pm.
Height: 49cm.
Weight: 3124g.

The three of us are feeling great.

I compiled a short video of Skalfa 3 year anniversary celebration. Sorry for poor quality and the lack of material. My battery died very quickly and the lighting was poor.

We had a good time there and I had fun making this video.

I wish I had time to read at least something on this list. I’ll probably try.

Celebrating it with my best friend, Yulka. We are in a nice hotel room, away from temporary home and others. After relaxing in spa it’s cool to lay in bed and write stuff. Everything is nice

WriteRoom is a piece of software for writing.

That’s actually it. It’s dead simple and it offers you the most productive environment to write - blank screen with your text. No distraction, no “features” to clutter up sourrounding space. Imagine you go to a quiet closet with only a sheet of paper and a pen.

When I installed it my first question was how someone can sell such a minimalistic word processor. The answer came after 3 minutes of writing - because it works with you on the right vibe. In 2 days I found out that WriteRoom doesn’t only remove nuisance, it actually helps writing. I found myself easily getting through my usual writing hiccups such as not being able to write for more than 20-30 minutes, rewrites, and reorganization. A writer can understand how much this means to productivity, in some cases it can have boolean effect on the result - if the work is ever finished or abandoned.

Even for an occasional writer such as myself I found WriteRoom making big difference. No wonder that pros go for it. Putting WriteRoom on top of my must-have pieces of software to install.

Finally it got settled down with Feedburner. This service actually delivers new posts to email. This easy task didn’t seem to be executed by previously tried services.

Except for that feedburner also provides an overwhelming bunch of useful functionality like embedding interaction in feeds, gathering subscribers statistics, inserting subscribe links and such.

The only thing I slightly dislike is that Feedsmith plugin puts feedburner’s links in the feed to redirect to actual posts. This is probably to count statistics, and I see it as necessary evil.

Thumbs up, Feedburner. Google knew what it did when they acquired the service. Finally, Skalfa blog is equipped with what it needs for a more serious customer communication approach and all product blogs integration.

A cool program from binarynights. A convenient and fast two-panes file manager with FTP client. Tabs, favorites (where you can also store FTP links), anything you need from a file manager.

Requires some time to get used to, especially when you migrate from Windows software (like Total Commander) but ok for extensive use. Really worth $29.95