Just some picks

1. Minix: Yet Another Operating System. I switched to Linux two years ago, still not fully comfortable with it, but yet I am thinking about new horizons. I downloaded the live CD to give it a try.
2. The Epoch. Now that is interesting: Unix Time or POSIX time started at January 1, 1970. I read about it in Linux Format. A Unix Timestamp and Converter Tool is the Epoch Converter, I copied and pasted this link @1235593849 UET

TiddlyWiki Student Notebook

The TiddlyWiki seems to be a never ending project. The TiddlyWiki Google-group is a high-volume mailinglist with many dedicated TiddlyWiki afficionados.
TiddlyWiki is a portable, non-linear notebook, but you can also use it as a GTD-productivity tool or for making a website.
When I learned about TiddlyWiki for the first time, I thought about applying it to education. Unfortunately, TiddlyWiki has a system of linking by “WikiWords” – my students didn’t like it and I switched to TikiWiki and, later, to MOODLE, that incidently appears to have a TiddlyWiki plug-in.
Now Andrew Lister has developped a combination of a Student Notebook and an online Wikispaces wiki for his class of over 250 students at Queens University.

For a more complete description follow the link to this Blog-entry or Lister’s own public demo site.

Bespin: web-based text editor in the cloud

Cloud computing: I wrote about it in another post. Now there is Bespin, an extensible, web-based text editor.

Bespin proposes an open extensible web-based framework for code editing that aims to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.

It is still in the Mozilla Labs, but it might grow up to a great word processor, extensible like other mozilla applications.

Introducing Bespin from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.

Again: the Geektest

Every now and then I take the GeekTest. The first time was in 2006; I scored 32,34714% – Total Geek. Then, May 2008 my geekability had advanced to 36% – Major Geek!
Yesterday, after a few days of hard word, I felt burned out and bored; so I thought: let’s take the GeekTest to cheer me up. Guess what: I scored 38.2643% – still Major Geek, but I’m making progress. So I think I’m worth the button:

Back to my cave! I’m running for the status of Super Geek – ?45%!
—–BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK—–
Version: 3.1
GIT/MU d+ s-: a+ C++>$ UL P+ L++ !E W+++>$ N+++ o? K–? w !O !M !V PS+ PE++ Y+ !PGP t !5 X R tv- b+++>$ DI+ !D G++ e+++$ h—- r y?
——END GEEK CODE BLOCK——

Twine and Web 3.0

The always interesting “Science and Reason” website by Charles Daney pointed me to Twine, a new bookmarking service, like Delicious, but with some social networking features.

A few months ago I had transferred my Delicious Bookmarks to Evernote, a great online notebook application, but now I think my precious time will have to walk a tight rope between Evernote and Twine.

Bookmarks are organizied into groups called “twines”, which can be public or private, and typically cover some recognizable topic area, or whatever people want to use them for. Each bookmark can also have a description and any number of tags, specified by the user creating the bookmark. Each bookmark also allows for comments, which anyone may add.

Introduction to Twine from Twine Official on Vimeo.

The technology behind Twine is called “Semantic Web” or “Web 3.0“. Why not? Web 2.0 is already obsolete (incidently I know people who still don’t know what RSS Feeds are).Swoogle is the Semantic Web Search Engine and may replace Google. Let’s wait and see.
But for me, always interested in new developments, and especially when it comes to collecting as much information as my brain can capture (and this largely depends on the amounts of time I have available – the only limitation to all my accomplishments), I thought it wouldn’t hurt to sign up with Twine and join some twines.