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In this page there is a comparison between the old AWT (Abstract Windows Toolkit), Java’s Swing and Eclipse’s SWT.

It is a very brief comparison, though beautiful at its simplicity…

As I was surfing, trying to find information on GNU/Linux POSIX conformance, I run into this page: http://people.fluidsignal.com/~luferbu/misc/Linus_vs_Tanenbaum.html

Yes, it is the quarrel Linus Torvalds and Andrew Tanenbaum. Just for historical reasons, anyone who is somewhat seriously involved in operating systems or Linux, should read it.

I have

Today I found this: Be.Ajaxilicious

It is a online movie database that is AJAX-based. It looks interesting, although I do not know how easy it would be to make the transition from ordinary text files or small databases we use for our movies.

Pay it a visit though…

For those who know me, I am a F1 McLaren fan… However, it seems that my favorite F1 team is falling apart. It recently lost Adrian Newey that went to the Red Bull Racing and those days, Nicholas Tombazis - who BTW is Greek like me - left and returned to Ferrari.

Come on guys, what are you doing? If everyone is gone, then your drivers will go too…

How many years will pass till we - I mean the McLaren team and fans - take the championship? I’m tired of waiting…

Since I am always looking for small projects to participate and make some money if possible - hey, I must pay my hardware upgrades somehow - I joined RentACoder.

I’ve just started using it. Although it is a bit ugly, it really works and if you have a PayPal account you can be paid almost immediately. You only need to set up an account and provide some info.

I am in no way affiliated with RentACoder, I thought I should share this info with whomever is reading this blog.