Joop on Sugar

Some (Dutch) blogs wrote about the panel discussion in De Balie called "De achterkant van web 2.0":

http://www.molblog.nl/achtergrond/4832
http://www.blueace.nl/2007/03/de-achterkant-van-web20-een-verslag/
http://www.frank-ly.nl/de-wilde-web-20-wereld-was-even-10-vanavond

Update: Tonie van Ringelestijn, who was also in the panel saturday, has written an article on NotieNotie. This article has been copied on a few websites:

http://www.pcmweb.nl/artikel.jsp?id=1919738

http://www.zibb.nl/ict/nieuwsbericht/asp/artnr/1372722/versie/1/

HCC Magazine

This weeks program:

• Dutch Bloggies
  Tonight: The XS4ALL Opinion weblog is nominated for an award.(Dutch)


• Science Fiction, Science Faction
  Wednesday: A symposium about the mutual influence of science fiction and computer technology development. Organized by Waag Society, XS4ALL Internet and the Cyberspace Salvations research team. With Bruce Sterling!
  


• "The backside of Web 2.0"
  
  Saturday: a debate in De Balie (Dutch)

Some footage of experiments in a lab. Falling down laptop, hovering before touching the ground. Very cool stuff:

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-laptops-of-the-future

Found this handy hint how to speed up your Mail.app program in Mac OS X. Haven't seen it anywhere before, so here the link: http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/01/a-faster-way-to-speed-up-mailapp/.

Befor you begin, quit the Mail.app program! Now, see how big your e-mail database is. Run the following command in Terminal:

ls -lah ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index

After this run:

sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum .exit

Wait awhile, and after the command quits, see how big your mailbox is now:

ls -lah ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index

That's all folks! My mailbox went from 42 MB to 38 MB, but most important, the program now feels much snappier to use.