Google search is aware of Russian grammar

I noticed that Google search became more adept at searching in Russian. Now it can search both the keywords and their Russian grammatic inflections.

See the screenshot (in Russian).

Amazon MP3 downloader for Linux

Decided to buy my second album from Amazon MP3 store and lo and behold, they now have a Linux version of Amazon MP3 downloader.

They only provide a binary package, either .rpm or .deb. They have two RPMs, for Fedora 8 and for OpenSuse 10.3. I have Slackware 12.1, but I managed to make the RPM for OpenSuse 10.3 work in my OS. I only had to install amazonmp3.rpm, boost-1.33.1-i686-3as from Slacky, and create the following symbolic links in /usr/lib directory.

rpm -ivh --nodeps amazonmp3.rpm
/usr/sbin/swaret --install boost-1.33.1-i686-3as
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libboost_date_time-mt.so.1.33.1 libboost_date_time.so.1.33.1
ln -s libboost_signals-mt.so.1.33.1 libboost_signals.so.1.33.1
ln -s libboost_iostreams-mt.so.1.33.1 libboost_iostreams.so.1.33.1

When you buy an album from Amazon's MP3 store, Amazon provides you with an .amz file, which you can open with the amazonmp3 application to download the actual audio files.

Dugg!

I added a widget to this blog showing online articles I recently read (and submitted to digg.com)

Worcester Public School's Calendar 2008-2009

I just typed in the Worcester, MA Public School's Calendar for 2008-2009.
It is also available in as Worcester, MA Public School's Calendar for 2008-2009 in iCal format for easy adding into your calendar application.