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Archive for August, 2006

No more missing books

Well, the missing parcel has forever gone, lost. But Amazon decided, after solicitation, to resend available books, and to refund the book it had no more in stock. So another parcel arrived, containing Everything is Illuminated and The Blind Watchmaker, which I can now delete from my wishing list, while perhaps moving it from Amazon [...]

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Bloglines is still having difficulties with subscriptions and posts: yesterday evening it happened again, and I lost unread entries from random subscribed weblogs. At least, this time their problem report seems to be a little bit more concerned than last time.
Now my entries seems to have been restored. But I’m still considering: what about Bloglines [...]

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Bloglines maintenance

Bloglines maintenance update:
Bloglines suffered intermittent service to a set of its users between the times of 10:30 PM PDT August 2 and 12:00 AM PDT August 3rd. The culprit has been identified and fixed. All services are once again operating normally and there is no impact on subscriptions, accounts, or data. We apologize for this [...]

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Tea of the day

The last Twinings Four Red Fruits I’ll have for a looong time… too sweet to my palate, too bitter to my memory. Accompanied with a square of Erdbeer-Rhabarber Ritter Sport: white chocolate filled with yogurt and strawberry cream and rhubarb and rice crispies. Killing myself with sweetness.

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More books by Kent Beck!

I was browsing some different flavours of Amazon lately, because I became interested in buying some new books, and while discovering (yet again, I’m certainly not the first one) that for a poor old chap living in Italy, the single book costs less in the United States than in England even when item shipment fees [...]

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