MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X.

Raging Menace - MenuMeters

the IRS may be revising its rules to allow tax preparers to share or sell customer information to third parties and database brokers, as part of a sweeping change to its privacy regulations.

IRS May Let Tax Preparers Sell Customers' Information

Martin calls it "community space", but some of the tools (e.g. IM) are primarily one-to-one tools... Wondering if/how we should take into account binary relations between people within the "community cloud" (also: degrees of trust in the community "in general" and between specific people may differ substantially).

Collaboration tools in relation to the level of trust

We'll start by looking at some universal patterns, which are the broad trends powering the paradigm, and then get into specific web patterns for elements like the use of tagging and folksonomies, Ajax, and so on.

What Web 2.0 is not

As with any trendy idea that can be used to produce a bag of investment money, some quarters are promoting the artifacts of Web 2.0-ishness in place of the stronger underlying ideas. Do not be confused by this. Using rounded boxes and Ajax do not alone make something useful.

Web 2.0: A Pattern Library

A group with al-Qaeda links discussed bombing nightclubs and attacking gas supply networks, a court has heard.

List of 'terror targets' revealed

British songwriter Billy Bragg is best known in the United States for setting Woody Guthrie lyrics to music on the Mermaid Avenue CDs. Like Guthrie, Bragg is a populist, and often political, songwriter. His music from the 1980s is featured in a new boxed set.

Box Set Features Political Stockpile of Billy Bragg

Hmf, I thought.

(I often think in snorts.)

What do they know from grammar? Him is the objective case of the second-person male pronoun and thus used as the object of the preposition to. Who waits modifies him and is not the tail end of a "noun clause."

Then in came a letter -- a real postal letter signed in antediluvian ink, mailed from San Antonio at the cost of an old-fashioned stamp — from Jacques Barzun, the revered emeritus professor from Columbia University who published his masterpiece, "From Dawn to Decadence," in 2000, when he was 92.

Standing Corrected

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Just look at it.

WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language /

Only recently have American banks and wireless companies begun developing mobile payment products. Now, the next wave of technology could wash ashore within two years.

Ring Up My Bill, Please