http://thisismyblog.com Random ramblings by Espen Ottersen Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:28:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en XMind, the Mind Mapping software based on the Eclipse RC platform has gone Open Source! XMind is definitely one of my favorite pieces of software; though the price has been a bit prohibitive for many people. Now that it is open source, with an optional "Pro" version with some added ... http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/16/xmind-now-open-source/ Waiting for a parking space outside IKEA I saw this huge car, or whatever you should call it. I contest the practicality of a car like this. Definitely not a good city car. http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/16/huge-car/ At almost 2am nonetheless.:-D http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/15/p-doing-accounting/ P just came home from work. Really tired after working for many hours. http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/15/p-home-from-work/ This is Astrid, the kid P is taking care of on weekdays. Cute, eh? She started walking yesterday.:-D http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/15/nanny-kid/ Walking toward the subway after lunch break. http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/15/p-on-the-run/ I just finished updating the Wordpress installation powering this website to version 2.6.3. Sorry for the downtime. As you also might have noticed I have voice enabled the website using Odiogo; look for the "listen now" button in the articles. If you have a blog and would like to create ... http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/08/podcast-and-wordpress-update/ What would the result be if the world could vote in the American presidential election going on today? A website has been set up where people from all across the world can go and vote for their favorite candidate. The result is sorted by country. So far 776042 votes has been ... http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/04/if-the-world-could-vote/ Turns out the rumor mill was correct this time. The October 14th Apple event yielded some brand new products (or nice updates to products). There were updates to the whole product line of Apple notebooks; MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Personally I'd really like to get the MacBook Air ... http://thisismyblog.com/2008/10/21/the-new-macbooks/ As predicted there will be an announcement of new hardware, most probably new notebooks, from Apple. The rumors leading up to the announcements mentions something about "the brick". Whatever "the brick" might be is impossible to know. Some sources mention it is a new way to produce the notebooks out ... http://thisismyblog.com/2008/10/09/the-spotlight-turns-to-notebooks/