Zettair is a light and compact search engine. It is supposedly suitable for indexing one’s personal files and then searching them. This tends to remind me of Google Desktop and some weaker equivalents that are bolted onto the operating system. On the contrary, Zettair is both free and Open Source. Is it also available for a large variety of platforms, namely:

1. Linux
2. FreeBSD
3. Mac OS X
4. Solaris
5. Windows
6. Cygwin

I have not had the chance to try it, but it sounds fascinating as a free tool that can be modified and extended. Once I complete my Ph.D., there is a good chance that I will resume work on Iuron, which is an Open Source knowledge engine. I wrote a couple of proposals for it last year. Time limitation don’t permit further progress, at least for the time being.

What happens when every time you receive a product and it breaks, time after time? You lose confidence, right? Here is the story of a rather stubborn guy.

Apparently, Szarek has had not one faulty Xbox 360, not two, not even three. No, he’s had four, count ‘em, four malfunctioning Xboxes, and he’s pissed, especially since he read that the console’s maker, Microsoft, feels customers who complain about faulty Xboxes should take their gripes elsewhere.

Older item: Xbox 360 Off to a Slow Start in Japan

Links can lose their value and
get rusty, even with Google

was innocently browsing the Internet this morning. By serendipity, I then arrived at a page where Google boast their contributions to Open Source software through funding (Summer of Code). It is only one example among others. But then, upon immediate inspection, merely all links turned out to be rel="nofollow"ed. SearchStatus made it evident by highlighting those links with red shades.

I have always adamantly believed that the purpose of this new class for links was different. I thought it was introduced in order to prevent and deter spam, among other things such as accommodation for microsformats (e.g. XFN). Here is the snag: If Google themselves are using rel="nofollow" to obstruct dynamicity into relevant, on-topic links, why should anyone else be hesitant to do so? rel="nofollow", a concept that was put in place by Google, is confirmed to have become something that can be misused. Its use has gone beyond the so-called ‘link condom’ (for spam) utility. Otherwise, Google demonstrate hypocrisy herein.

IGG had me pointed at 2100×2034-pixel imagery of the Sun. This image was taken in 1999 and it shows some really stunning details which I have never envisioned.

Also see:

1. Planet with 3 Suns
2. Tenth Rock from the Sun