On a tractor to the south pole

Mit dem Traktor durch Afrika

Some days ago i watched in tv a Dutchwoman which is going to the south pole in a tractor

With google I found here page and sometimes it seems to be true:
Das habe ich gerade mal gegoogelt und manchmal gilt:

The world is a global village!

The website tractortractor.org is powered by Textpattern!

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eyeOS

This could become very useful: eyeOS.

I work at several computers and i have to save and carry my data on an USB stick. If you know the funny things different word-versions can do with a single .doc, you know how i love M$.
Webbased services are an alternative. I manage my emails with gmail and i use writely more and more.

But why should i use different services (gmail for mails, del.icio to bookmarking and writely to write), if i can have all that at my own server.

At the moment the functionality of eyeOS is to limited to do real work with it. But i has high potential for the future.

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Ajax Load - Another Beta

AjaxLoad

Real good: Ajax Load generates animated Loading GIF’S.

Choose out of 17 different animations and fore- and background colors are variable.

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Browsershots

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A really good one of the large number of beta-servicex is browsershots.
Input URL and after about a hour the site deliveres screenshots made with different browsers and systems.

Yesterday I browsershot samisdat.org. You can see the results here.

It’s seems like that samisat.org is rendered quite well in all browsers supported by browsershot.

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Good old days

alte Werbung

America, the first half of the last century, captured in over 7000 adverts.

Partially black-and-white, but also beautifully colored pictures which take back to the good old days.

Visit the whole collection of advertisement at
Duke Endowment Library. The images i found there.

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