Osama’s Blog

Nick Gravgaard invents a new way to render tabs for programmers, I wish all IDEs did this:

Elastic tabstops - the solution to the tabs-versus-spaces issue

Joel Spolsky asks Can Your Programming Language Do This?
My favorite programming language does it all except inline anonymous functions, which I think are not that important.

He also shows an example and summary of map-reduce.

Marco Cantu complains about having 10,000 Spam Messages in his Gmail spam folder… I usually get about 3 times as much…

These japanese never stop boggling my mind! the latest craziness is producing electricity from ticket gates:

Treehugger: Japan: Producing Electricity from Train Station Ticket Gates

BitWorking talks about how people store important data in spreadsheets.

I think the main reason people use spreadsheets is that they are so easy to use, they use hacks to get away with not having relations, I have seen many “Excel Files” that contain lots of data that has been copied and pasted on multiple sheets, and they ARE out of sync… read Document Centric.

Yay Hooray members imagine famous logos redesigned to look like the new “Web2.0″ sites and logos…. yh collab: redesign famous logos in web 2.0 format!

Andy beal wrote an Article titled “Dear Google, You’re Giving Me a Headache.” To his surprise, they him the pain relief he had requested.

Andy Beal’s MarketingPilgrim.com

There’s this site at one red paperclip where Kyle MacDonald claims that he traded one red paperclip for a house. he says that he started with one red paperclip on July 12 2005 and 14 trades later, on July 12, 2006 he traded with the Town of Kipling Saskatchewan for a house located at 503 Main Street.

I’m sorry, but I don’t believe it.

P.S. Kyle also has a myspace page.

Since the announcement on Digg.com things went skyrocketing on a Piet Nutbey’s writely invite page. there are tons of invitations to give away at

http://pnut.kicks-ass.org/gsheet/