[Linux] Journal.

You can specify thunderbird to open the sunbird calendar window on startup by running the following command:

/usr/bin/thunderbird -mail -calendar

Time and time again I find myself adoring the simplicity in which Python allows you to get things done, mod_python’s Publisher Handler is another fine example of this. It allows you to use REST style url (or any other style for that matters) to access functions in python modules. This is especially heartfelt after months [...]

There two are by far my favourite firefox extensions:

BetterShopper - when you’re browsing on Amazon it looks up prices of currently displayed item across different Amazon stores to compare prices. It then converts all the currency displayed into the currency of your choice. Really nifty extension but perhaps more useful for non-US residents.
SessionSaver .2 - [...]

add this line to .emacs to turn syntax highlight on by default:

(global-font-lock-mode t)

SVN’s db sometimes gets corrupted, but it can usually be fixed with db_recover. Go into the db directory in svn repository, e.g. cd /var/lib/svn/db, then run as root db4.2_recover. Check if it worked with svn list file:///var/lib/svn.