What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Decem­ber 30^th through Feb­ru­ary 2^nd:

• Send a FAX by E-mail –

  Yes, thats right. SEND a FAX by EMAIL! No reg­is­tra­tion, no cost. Just fol­low the easy instruc­tions on the page. I love this, it’s like the blu-ray ver­sion of BETAMAX.

• The Card Game — How Visa, Using Fees Behind Its Debit Card, Dom­i­nates a Mar­ket — Series — NYTimes.com –

  This detailed look at the world of credit/debit cards is a must read for any­one who uses a card to pay for any­thing. Ever.

  The sys­tem is bro­ken and will never get fixed if we don’t even know that it’s bro­ken because it’s too damn obfus­cated to make any sense out of it. But it sure is con­ve­nient.… Just remem­ber: Con­ve­nience is expensive.

• 10 Tax Deduc­tions Free­lancers Can Make | Free­lanceSwitch –

  Some of these are com­mon sense, some are not. But worth the short read if you are a freelancer.

  The com­ments are lively and infor­ma­tive as well, some extra point­ers in there too.

• Vir­tu­al­iza­tion: Win­dows on a Mac –

  this has been a hot topic as droves of Win­dows devo­tees cast off the dogma of an ancient regime and begin adopt­ing Macs. RobG lays out a com­pre­hen­sive guide here cov­er­ing the 3 major play­ers in Mac vir­tu­al­iza­tion, includ­ing how to pick the right one for you, in-depth looks at each one, caveats, sug­ges­tions, and more. Very use­ful resource if you are just get­ting into the wild, woolly world of OS virtualization.

  I just started play­ing with Par­al­lels 5 and i really like the Coher­ence mode that allows me to run Win­dows apps as if they were just another Mac app on my machine, seam­less, unob­tru­sive, and COOL!

• Save MySQL! » Cus­tomers pay the bill –

  Whether you know it or not this has much to do with the neu­tral­ity of our inter­net. Free soft­ware is used to run MOST of the inter­net. And MySQL is a big part of what makes that pos­si­ble. It puts the “M” in LAMP.

  The acqui­si­tion of MySQL by Ora­cle would be noth­ing short of monop­oly. Ora­cle DBs are the indus­try stan­dard. MySQL is the scrappy open-source alter­na­tive that won’t go away. If Ora­cle acquires MySQL you can be sure that it will finally go away.

• Move Your Money –

  A wor­thy New Years Res­o­lu­tion: Move you money away from “un-failable” bank­ing giants and into your community.