Converted another person to use tabbed browsing

Walking by the cubicle of a collegue, noticed he's using Mozilla Firefox. I congratulated him, but expressed surprise he's still got too many buttons on the taskbar. Guy's excitement has been totally genuine when he learned how to browse all he wants from a single window, but in different tabs. I left from work happier than usually. But now, what are poor web developers to do? See, for people opening new browser windows it is expected that the current website is not going away, so a new window should open. But for those using tabs, it's a mere annoyance. If I click on a link, I expect it to always open in the same window!

Frustrations of development for mobile devices

Having major issue with the situation BREW put us into. Not being BREW developer myself, I thought, OK, I'll help my company a bit and develop either WAP or HTML helper application, so that we could roll it out to our customers really quick (instead of putting it through Qualcomm's and carrier's certifications which usually amounts in around 1 to 1.5 months). So, I asked around, which phone models are most popular with our customers, grabbed one in QA and tried to surf the 'net. Since I switched to GSM phone recently I could not even imagine how greedy (and stupid) people running CDMA networks are. Customer has to subscribe to a "service" with a monthly fee of around $5 to be able to browse the Web. So, charging for data transfer (in form of minutes used) is not enough? Makes me really angry. Yeah, tell me again about thriving BREW ecosystem!

Update on Opteron workstations

You know what, it did not even take long to research to find just a guy who tries to nicely profit from this Sun Micro workstation handoff. Here's the guy. Bought W1100z in July, selling it now. It looks too easy: Sun Micro auctiones these Java workstations using 1-day listings, resellers simply extend it to 7-day, thus nearing the listing price as a result, profiting close to (maybe even exceeding) 100%.

Dangers of eBay

I may have said "temptations", too. Being an addict of new shiny things, I frequently go to ebay.com/sun. They have some sweet machines over there, like dual-Opteron workstation with nVidia Quadro professional graphics. And you know what? These have been auctioned off at prices around $1500-$1800! Darn! No wonder I registered an eBay account to just be able to participate in this... After all, the joke was only a joke in part. Sun Micro really is financing Java developers allowing (some of) them to get some decent hardware and software. But man, it is scary. I bid on one of those and as I was sitting there, 2 hours to the end of an auction, thinking: do I really need it? Will my wife not kill me for blowing this much money on a 4th computer? Luckily, somebody out-bid me. I wonder if somebody is doing a business buying these boxes for cheap and then reselling...