Cooling your PC

Some relatively inexpensive ways of cooling your PC more effectively. Time for a new PC first – my current one is six years old. Respect to the old codger.Par the firstPart the secondPart the third

Useful apps

Free hotkey scripting tool (I use Macro Express, but this looks like a neat OSS alternative). Motherboard monitor helps you check if your poor overstressed box is running too hot.

Barriers to OSS

Some good thoughts about why OSS isn’t being adopted by IT managers. We’ve got to address all of these in the next six months of LAWs.

Markdown

Markdown looks like a neat solution to the markup / readability discussion.It has a few benefits over Wiki formatting, but then Wiki formatting is far more widespread. Hmm. Time to move the blog over to one of these, but which?

Seven tests for quality content

Seven tests for quality web content are exactly that. I’m not sure that a promotional site necessarily has to exude serenity (not much of a call to action there) but otherwise these are really good. They certainly work for me and my interaction with things I...