Paulo Coelho uses bittorrent to seed his books

World famous Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, who’s works include ‘Alchemist’ and ‘Fifth Mountain’. Here is his video from german book fair where he talks how he created his site Pirate Coelho, after he managed to increase sales of his books in Russia from 1000 a year to million a year, thanks to releasing them to [...]

HTML5 Styles

I follow Ajaxian blog and they posted very interesting thing today. It turns out you can do very cool styling of your elements in new browser that I and most likely other developers might not be aware of.
I will borrow the code from their site:
<html>
<head>
<style>blah { color: red; }</style>
<script>document.createElement(“blah”)</script>
</head>
<body>
<blah>Hello!</blah>
</body>
</html>
Now, from article this code should work [...]

Revision3 redesign

Video podcast network Revision3, created by Kevin Rose of Digg (for those who might not be aware), just got redesigned.
It looks fairly nice, with nice slideshow feature, however I still can’t find where to look for new shows, as previous blog format would what I am used to. It was cluttered by daily tekzilla’s [...]

Beautiful Casa

  I just got final OK and launched a website Emil and I were working for few weeks. Casa Zocalo is luxurious rental villa in Mexico, that comes with full staff. It is great place to go and relax. Well, at least that is how I heard as I never have been there.
One thing is [...]

New Apple Air MacBook

New MacBook was just released. I was waiting for someone to release a laptop without cd/dvd drive for some time. I think this is great feature and hopefully this will be more common. Also reduction of the ports is welcome, thank you for doing this.
Now, here is strange thing. I am not Apple fanboy, I [...]

Wild About Work – 101 ways (curt rosengren)

Some 2-3 years ago, Occupational Adventure blog was place I enjoyed to visit, Curt was writing there often and it inspired me quite a bit at that time to start things which I am enjoying now. So, even though he doesn’t write this much anymore, at least not on his blog, whenever he does something [...]

Power of IT

I bought pretty little laptop recently – Lenovo. It came with some promotional offers, and Chase Bank tried to do a classic “bite and switch” with me. They essentially approved me but didn’t give me promotional offer. So I started calling to clarify the situation, as I was approved, and I do have very good [...]

Christmas

Today we celebrate Christmas. What?!
Today we at Dakic OnLine as well as 300M+ Orthodox Christians who use so called old calendar to determine dates, we celebrate Christmas. New Year will be on the 13th.
It just shows how relative those holidays dates are. Originally when the split over calendar started, reasoning for keeping old [...]

Few words about Rails {grin}

I just read Zed’s post ‘Rails Is a Ghetto’ and while I didn’t have inside experience he has, well… let’s go from the start. First his post  is really insightful and amusing. Also he talks about Rails in a way most Railities didn’t used to. Of course he mentions performance and crashing problems. Whew !!! [...]