Нашлись те, кто поправил меня - мол, отопительный сезон заканчивается не при достижении определённой температуры на улице, как я писал, а в определённый день - 15 апреля. Пришлось сделать дополнительное исследование.
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Попала в руки книга. Вроде ничего особенного, обычная книга доинтернетной эры. Но читаю, читаю и чувствую, что-то не так. Посмотрел внимательнее и понял - да это же прямо блог распечатанный!
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One appeal of Life Balance has to do with the similarities to GnuCash - my finance accounting tool of choice.

Indeed,

• GnuCash is about money accounting, Life Balance is about time/efforts accounting,
• GnuCash has a tree of bookkeeping accounts, Life Balance has a tree of projects,
• GnuCash has a number of useful reports, Life Balance has reports too, albeit only two: the dynamically compiled To-Do List (frankly, the main product of the system) and … the Balance report.

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Есть такой вебмастер, под псевдонимом Wishmaster, известный своим проектом www.kievsat.com и соответствующим форумом. И был ещё одни форум - lifeforum (http://www.kievsat.com/lifeforum/), который внезапно оказался закрыт и удалён из-за причуды того же мастера желаний - Wishmaster’а.

Бывшие участники lifeforum’а начали работы по воссозданию сообщества. Кажется, никто особого восторга не испытывает по поводу появившихся хлопот и утраты архивов.

Эта история вызывает вопрос общего плана:
Как организовать работу веб-сообщества, чтобы максимально обезопасить его от прихотей отдельных личностей?
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The two most common approaches in Web analytics are:

1. Web server logfile analysis
2. Page tagging

Page tagging is the method of choice from the commercial standpoint. However, it’s got its characteristic drawbacks:

• changes to the web application are needed
• vendor lock-in of some sort takes place (regardless whether you use a subscription-based solution or acquire a hosted one).

On the other hand there is one nice web stats tool operating in the old good logfile analysis realm, which is AWStats. Until recently it was a reliable work horse for many webmasters delivering quite useful reports about origin breakdown, sessions (visits duration), lists of landing pages (”entry”) & exit pages - categories commonly associated with the more complex page tagging statistics systems.

What happened to it?
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Ever wanted to set up a weekly or monthly mailing list for your blog?

FeedBurner is good for a daily email dispatch which is attainable by just “burning” your feed and activating mail service for it.

But how about less frequent mailings?
And how about selecting only the best articles to include in those rare mails?

It’s easy. Better yet, it can be automated with standard components for your WordPress installation.

To set up a Weekly (or Monthly) Top Posts mailing list just follow these 5 simple steps:
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I wonder if a bluetooth headset exists out there capable of switching between two or more preconfigured mobile phones.

Imagine it like a personal micro-telephone-exchange system: you receive calls at all your mobile phones with a single headset, able to switch between several conversations, possibly connecting them into a super-conference call - all carefree.

Even more fun it’d make having implemented voice control. I’d fancy it wouldn’t be too hard to add some logic for selecting an outgoing cellular terminal based upon called party requested (by voice dialing), time of day, etc.

That would be a perfect solution to the inconvenience of having multiple mobile phones on you.

UPDATE
Looks like there are quite a few multiple-phone bluetooth headsets most notable of which are Anycom BSH-100, Plantronics Discovery series i.e. 640, 645, 655 & Plantronics Voyager 510 (they’ve got “Multipoint Technology” connections), BlueAnt X3 Micro is even capable of switching between 3 phones.
Need to do further research on other features from my wish-list…