I had been using digikam for several years to manage my collection of digital photographs. With the recent purchase of a new DSLR (my first I might add), I was looking to see what else was out there in the terms of software, functionality, features, costs, etc. At the same time, while looking on the net to see what was available, I found many people looking for the same things as I.

Yesterday Google celebrated the opening of a larger Cambridge, Massachusetts office, which takes up a substantial part of a building right next to the Kendall/MIT subway stop in the higher-than-high tech area of East Cambridge. I got a look at their new Friend Connect service (covered in a related Radar blog) and heard some fascinating comments that the staff kindly let me reproduce here.

"Django now supports Model Inheritance, and one of the coolest new opportunities that model inheritance brings is the possibility of the creation of mixins, so in this post I'll walk through the steps I went through to create some simple examples.

Sometimes, people do such stupid things that words almost fail me. That’s the case with a Debian ‘improvement’ to OpenSSL that rendered this network security program next to useless in Debian, Ubuntu and other related Linux distributions.

"...This document specifies usage scenarios for full-text queries as part of XML Query [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and XPath [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0]..."

"This document collects together into one definition all the specs that together form the current state of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The primary audience is CSS implementors, not CSS authors, as this definition includes modules by specification stability, not Web browser adoption rate..."

Today is our anniversary, guys. Unbelievably, Groklaw is five years old today. And we're still standing, still here, still working together. I know. Amazing. Who knew we'd still be together after five years?

One exciting recent bit of news is all about Asustek extending the reach of Splashtop and putting it on pretty much every motherboard. This means that tens of millions of PCs are expected to have Linux installed down at the core, essentially (yet arguably) running it as the ‘default’ operating system.