Category: All

All posts across the whole website belong to this category. They might also belong to some other categories as well, but this one holds all of them. Hence the descriptive name – All.

On inheritance

I remember when I was a kid we often discussed with friends who will become who when we grow up.  Pretty much everyone wanted to be rich.  But we had no idea how one can become rich, except for an opportunity via inheritance from a distant American relative.  Years passed, we grew up, and went our own separate ways.  A few of those kids became rich, but most didn’t.  Most of us are doing OK though.

Why am I telling you all that? Because today I came across a few pictures that cover current state of economic affairs in the United States.  One of those images brought back all those memories, and somehow suggested that kids of today have to dream up some other way of becoming rich when they will grow up.

Gmail in console browser links

I was quite surprised today how well the standard HTML (non-JavaScript) version of Gmail works in console browser links.  Everything is there – folders, labels, messages in inbox, search, and even compose.  I don’t think that too many people are actually using this version, but kudos to Google for still supporting it – in those desperate times, when nothing else works, it’s nice to have at least this front covered.

Day in brief

Cloud performance comparison

O’Reilly Radar runs the blog post comparing performance of several cloud services.  While everyone should run their own tests and benchmarks before deciding which one is better, the article provides a nice summary.  Here is the graph based on their results.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Via this blog post I came across this excellent photograph of Jacqueline Kennedy – a wife and widow of John Kennedy.

While she was definitely a very beautiful woman, I can’t think of anyone who would want to be her – there was so much grief and sorrow in her life, that it even seems unfair.  Assassination of her husband is not even the first one on the list.  By that time she already lost two children – her first daughter was delivered stillborn and her fourth child – a boy – died only days after he was born.  Then her husband was killed.  Then his brother.  Then she left the United States, fearing for the lives of her other two children.  She got married to a Greek guy, who soon also lost a son, after which got more and more sick himself.  Not long after that he also passed away.  Widow for the second time, she went through a bunch of legal arguments with the rest of his family.  And if all that wasn’t enough, she was diagnosed with cancer and died at the age of 64.

But from what I understood, she remained strong, kind, and caring throughout her life.  She did a lot of good for a lot of people and many still remember her with words of respect and gratitude.  That leaves me absolutely speechless…