http://agylen.com/2005/10/06/amsterdam/ Ugo Cei's Weblog Sat, 17 May 2008 00:50:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://agylen.com/2005/10/06/amsterdam/#comment-58862 Agylen » Magic Leiden Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:57:21 +0000 http://agylen.com/2005/10/06/amsterdam/#comment-58862 [...] I took this picture last night in Leiden (where we had a Joost meeting). Strangely enough, it was one of the rare occasions when I found fog in the Netherlands, apart from my very first trip to Amsterdam, more than one year ago. [...] […] I took this picture last night in Leiden (where we had a Joost meeting). Strangely enough, it was one of the rare occasions when I found fog in the Netherlands, apart from my very first trip to Amsterdam, more than one year ago. […]

]]> http://agylen.com/2005/10/06/amsterdam/#comment-668 Agylen » Google Reader, disconnectedness and full feeds Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:15:42 +0000 http://agylen.com/2005/10/06/amsterdam/#comment-668 [...] A web-based aggregator will never be able to compete with a desktop one as long as the latter can work in disconnected mode. Case in point: Yesterday, as I was stuck in Schiphol airport while my return plane was delayed once again because of the fucking bomb, or of the fog, or both, I could either fire up NetNewsWire and read the couple hundred or so items it had previously downloaded, or be robbed 6 Euros for every 30 minutes of WiFi connectivity if I wanted to stay online. And even if I had accepted that sort of thievery, still I wouldn’t have been able to continue reading while on the plane. [...] […] A web-based aggregator will never be able to compete with a desktop one as long as the latter can work in disconnected mode. Case in point: Yesterday, as I was stuck in Schiphol airport while my return plane was delayed once again because of the fucking bomb, or of the fog, or both, I could either fire up NetNewsWire and read the couple hundred or so items it had previously downloaded, or be robbed 6 Euros for every 30 minutes of WiFi connectivity if I wanted to stay online. And even if I had accepted that sort of thievery, still I wouldn’t have been able to continue reading while on the plane. […]

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