Statistics are fun

I have discovered recently the nice feature of Wordpress - Dashboard which shows number of visits, but also shows incoming links and search phrases the people used to land on my blog. Sometimes, they provide really interesting and surprising insights. Of course, I do not see who they are or where the visitors are coming from - so no privacy concerns. Because of my first name (which is btw abreviated form of Miroslav), I am getting some visits from the people interested in the works of Joan MirĂ³ - spanish/catalan artist.

Few more podcasts

Unfortunately, as of previous Sunday I have run out of the backlog in Security Now! episodes, which means that with all three of my favorite podcasts (Twit, Windows Weekly and Security Now!), I am pretty much dependent on their weekly releases. This is a problem, because the sum of 5-7 weekly commutes to work and back (about 15 minutes one way) plus about 40 minutes in a gym every day equals to about 6 hours of required podcast quality content, and the new episodes of three podcasts above cover barely half of it.

Unlike Vista, this user interface *is* something new

Quite seldom I see something on the net that is elegant, beautiful, and simple - so simple that it becomes obvious. Last time I had this feeling was with iPod's wheel. There was lots of excitement about new Vista user interface features. The users who never used / saw OS-X, must love Vista. It is huge improvement over XP - much nicer, cleaner, very good typography, comes very close to Tiger.

Surfmania

Few good links I've received from friends: - Interesting satelite images of Earth; - New way how to discover / browse music - http://www.musicovery.com/ - All Web 2.0 sites directory, implemented Web 2.0 way - On-line media conversion tool. Great for converting MP3 to ringtones :-) - If you fly often, the SeatGuru will help you choose good seats and avoid bad ones - interesting slow motion videos - http://www.redlake.com/gallery/videos/RDT.aspx

How to synchronize Pocket PC with Mac

Using PocketPC with Windows is very easy, assumed that you are using Outlook. Synchronization is straightforward, works out of the box. If you are keeping your contacts in other software than Outlook, you can often find 3rd party software that does the synchronization - or at least provides the plugin. The selection of the solutions is fairly large. On Mac, you are in similar situation if you want to use Palm based PDA.