Make your own book with Blurb

Blurb.com is a company which provides a print on demand publishing service for the general public. It allows you to make and sell your own books online. The selling model is very similar to CafePress.com. This isn't a new service -- even Time Magazine named Blurb one of 2006's "50 Coolest Web Sites", but I somehow didn't notice it earlier.

[image] GNU Anubis 4.1.1 is out!

Here is the official annoucement, and following is the list of user-visible changes in this release:

  • Automatic correction of MAIL and RCPT SMTP commands.
  • Fix loop-detection code.
  • New configuration keywords sasl-realm, sasl-hostname and sasl-service.
  • Minor improvements and bugfixes.
  • New Danish, Indonesian, Italian, and Swedish message translations.

Guns N' Roses released today their sixth studio album, entitled Chinese Democracy. I bought it and like it very much after listening to it several times already. And I really don't care whether this is "true" GNR or not (featuring only Axl Rose from the original line-up) as long as the music is good. Especially good as on this album. Tracklisting:

 1. Chinese Democracy
 2. Shackler's Revenge
 3. Better
 4. Street of Dreams
 5. If the World
 6. There Was a Time
 7. Catcher in the Rye
 8. Scraped
 9. Riad n' the Bedouins
10. Sorry
11. I.R.S.
12. Madagascar
13. This I Love
14. Prostitute
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Richard Wright: 1943 - 2008

Sad news today. Richard Wright, a musician and a founder member of Pink Floyd, has died at the age of 65 after battling cancer.

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Richard Wright smiling into my camera -- this is a photo I personally took two years ago in Gdańsk.

Freedom Fry - "Happy birthday to GNU"

The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year!

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"Happy Birthday to GNU" is a short film featuring the English humorist, actor and novelist Stephen Fry.

I was especially surprised with the GNU contributors list at the end of this film. Both Sergey and I are listed there :D