The Five Stages of Benchmark Loss

I just came across this wonderful piece of analysis on how people
react to "losing" a benchmark - or more accurately a product favoured
by them not doing well in benchmark - on Phoronix:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pts_scale_2010&num=1

Creating your own QR codes

The German c't magazine brought me to this wonderful website for
creating QR codes yourself. It supports many different kinds of links,
even for one-shot configuration of your wifi settings: <a
href="http://www.qrcode-monkey.com/">http://www.qrcode-monkey.com/</a>