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Yearly Archives: 2011

Pinboard

Posted on 06-Nov-2011 and tagged tools

When rumors came up that Yahoo would shut down Delicious some time ago, I started searching for an alternative online bookmark management solution. Finally I came across Pinboard and signed up for an account. Importing all my Delicous bookmarks was a piece of cake and the interface looked nice and clean. Then Delicious wasn’t shut down. It [...]

Void Trilogy

Posted on 10-Jul-2011 and tagged books, fiction, sci-fi

The Void trilogy is another three volume space opera by Peter F. Hamilton. It’s not really revolutionary. But if you liked “Night’s Dawn” or the “Commonwealth Saga” — his former space operas — you’ll like this one, too. It’s a sequel to the Commonwealth Saga and since persons from it make reappearances here and situations from [...]