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This is pretty amazing. You must have Flash to be able to view this.

Do check out the cartoons on the aljazeera.net webpages. It's a popuplink in the middle, towards the end of the page.

Here are some that I liked in particular:

I'm using Mozilla Firebird as my browser. Far superior to any other browser I've ever tested.

One of the best features is that you can click on any link with the wheel button on the mouse and the page opens in a tab behind the current page. Difficult to explain, just install it and realise that IE is crap.

This made me laugh. A collection of BAD web sites from CHI-WEB email list

Would you put your money in a bank with a web design like this ?

So it started today. Term I on my third and last year of Mathematical Science with Computer Science at City University.

The lectures I had today were Data Structures & Algorithms and Fluid Dynamics

Both are potentially interesting. The DSA course might be "too easy" since I have programming experience from before and most people in the course don't. Lecturer seems alrite but I've never seen a lecturer so nervous before. Maybe it was just because it was his first lecture too.

Fluid Dynamics may be difficult but it's good with challanges. Looking forward to do this module.

New (to me) Google tool which lets you monitor what is coming in on http://news.google.com/

I've got one set up searching for python language -snake -monty (i.e. the Python programming language)

Tux is the offical mascot of the GNU-Linux operating system if you didn't already know that..

Read about the complete history of Tux and see more images on LWN's Gallery

I read on plone.org about the latest sprint at an old castle outside Vienna in Austria. What amazes me is the effort these guys put in. Some 35 people from all over the world participated in the 5 day sprint all at their own cost. No one gets paid except those few lucky whose company encourage their employees to spend some Open Source time.

A sprint is when a bunch of top Open Source developers meet up for a conferencelike event and just sit and program code. I think the most common methodology is XP (eXtreme Programming) at these events.

Plone seems to be a winner. Good work all fellow Open Soure developers.

My company, Fry-IT sells a system called MOHO which is a wireless ordering system. Basically, in a restaurant, waiters walk around with a PDA instead of a notepad to take the orders. Then the orders are wirelessly beemed over to the kitchen or the till.

The restaurant show at Olympia was surprisingly big. Lots of people selling similar systems but mostly it was retailers of kitchen equipment and other restaurant equipment. Our stand was somewhat outlandish but we talked to lots of people and got many sales leads out of it. Ned Wells, our sales guy, was very happy with the outcome.

This is the first time I've ever done sales like this so to me it was a great experience.

Accorning to TopCoder the Swedish developers have a significant lead on their competitions. This is the organixation that sponsors the Google Code Jam

Read the Google Code Jam page which much better explains how these competitions work. It's only for the Java, C++, C# or VB.NET languages and I'm no expert with any of them so I won't be participating any time soon.

Sweden has here only 17 rated developers whereas USA has 1275, an maybe then the Swedish excellence isn't typical for the country but as a Swede I'm very proud of my fellow geeks.