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• Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard

• “Scissors cuts Paper covers Rock crushes Lizard poisons Spock smashes Scissors decapitates Lizard eats Paper disproves Spock vaporizes Rock crushes Scissors.” (via @mperedim)

• at night, Monday 21 September 2009
  Mini-Post, Random, Tech/web | Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard (Comment!)

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• Life colors

• “The friends of mine paint with a black color. Because you wasted their red.” (magic de spell)

• at night, Saturday 19 September 2009
  Mini-Post, Quotes, Thoughts | Life colors (Comment!)

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• Maemo Summit

• Yeehaa! I’m going to the Maemo Summit baby! Amsterdam, long time no see! #maesum

• at night, Saturday 19 September 2009
  Mini-Post, Personal, Tech/web | Maemo Summit (Comment!)

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• Django Conference!

• Getting ready for DjangoCon baby. Portland, here I come.

• at night, Friday 4 September 2009
  Mini-Post, Tech/web | Django Conference! (Comment!)

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• The narcotic known as ‘open source’

• “Open-source: A stimulant of the central nervous system, tolerance reuptake inhibitor, reliance suppressant and cargo-cult inhibitor. Because of the way it strongly affects the left-brain pathways responsible for the feelings of independence, autonomy, self-determination and confidence, open-source can be highly addictive. Also referred with the street name ‘realization fix’, its long-term use can cause culture-shocks that other models still exist.”

  

• at night, Saturday 22 August 2009
  Foss, Linux, Humor, Tech/web | The narcotic known as ‘open source’ (Comment!)

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• Coffee bean tanning

• It seems my coffee beans are getting sour more quickly in the summer. More quickly than what I expected, I guess.

• at night, Friday 21 August 2009
  Food, Mini-Post, Random | Coffee bean tanning (Comment!)

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• Git, oh git.

• Quotes (read: rants) seen today on IRC on git’s bad user interface:

  There’s a clear distinction between git ‘the content-based distributed filesystem’ (which might as well be the greatest thing since sliced bread) and git ‘the user interface for the backend’ (which might as well be the most chaotic thing after Big Bang).

  Whenever I try to use git, I feel major PEBKAC waves taking place.

  Like they say: A doctor can usually ‘bury’ his bad design. An architect can only suggest planting a thick ivy.

  
  (cc) by chidorian

• at night, Tuesday 18 August 2009
  Humor, Tech/web | Git, oh git. (Comment!)

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• Flashback: Yosemite Park

• Flashback from my beautiful trip to Yosemite Park, USA in 2007.

  

• at night, Monday 17 August 2009
  Flashbacks, Random | Flashback: Yosemite Park (Comment!)

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• hgtk visual diffs

• I noticed that from a point in tortoisehg’s history, extdiff was broken on default installs. It just kept popping up “No visual tool has been configured”. This happened even if one defined ‘meld’ or ‘/usr/bin/meld‘ in hgtk userconfig. Today I got in the mood to debug this. After some hacking and hg bisects I found the answer. Where? In the hgtk manual (“use the manual, Luke!”).

  You’ll need to edit your ~/.hgrc by hand and add the following in it:

  [extdiff]
  cmd.meld = meld
  opts.meld =
  

  Now, the ‘meld’ option will be available in hgtk’s userconfig tool and will be used for visual diff operations.

  

• at night, Monday 10 August 2009
  Foss, Linux | hgtk visual diffs (Comment!)

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• Περί θερμίδων ερωτήσεις

• Σήμερα στο www.thermides.net, στις “τυχαίες αναζητήσεις”: Πανάνες Κοφλεξ Συροπιαστα Πασατεμπος Ξυλάγγουρο Γιερμαδες Μιλσεηκ Σεξ Μάφιν Βαζανια Φακητες Μπακλαβαδακι Πυραυλος Βοδιν Ψωμιά Κοκάκι Πιτογυρο Ραηςκρίσπις Βρώμικο Πετσα Κινέζικο

• at night, Tuesday 4 August 2009
  Humor, Mini-Post | Περί θερμίδων ερωτήσεις (Comment!)

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• Shutter awesomeness

• “Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux.” — These guys really mean what they’re saying. This program is simply fantastic.

• at night, Tuesday 4 August 2009
  Foss, Linux, Mini-Post | Shutter awesomeness (Comment!)

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• Rubik’s cube

• A friend just gave me a Rubik’s cube. Great. Just what I needed right now, an exciting puzzle to solve with endless possibilities for improvement.

• at night, Saturday 1 August 2009
  Humor, Mini-Post | Rubik’s cube (Comment!)

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• Basic guitar tabs

• I wanted today a portable 2-page list of basic guitar tabs and couldn’t find anything ready. So I quickly created one.

• at night, Tuesday 28 July 2009
  Books/music/films, Mini-Post | Basic guitar tabs (Comment!)

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• Friday afternoon sweet @ Indifex

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  Chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream and caramelized apricot. Great for a hot summer afternoon!

• at night, Friday 24 July 2009
  Food | Friday afternoon sweet @ Indifex (Comment!)

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• Today’s dinner: Ravioli with chorizo

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  I opened up today my refrigerator to cook dinner and found some ingredients which rung a good chord in my head. As usual, the immediate thought was “let’s try this out!”

  Ravioli with spanish chorizo sausage in coconut milk

  One-liner recipe: Fry the chorizo and create a thick sauce from coconut milk spiced with paprika, a bit of chili and a scent of cumin, and add the near-to-al-dente pasta for 1′.

  • Cook 500g of ravioli, leaving 1-2 minutes off their cooking time.
  • Slice 150g of Spanish Chorizo sausage in very thin slices. Fry with a tablespoon of olive oil in the pan until it’s cooked and has released its oils.
  • Mix 200g of coconut milk with a tablespoon of paprika. If it’s real paprika (not very spicy) add in some chili and a suspicion of cumin. Make sure the spices aren’t too much, otherwise the ravioli taste will be overshadowed. Add the mixture in the pan and further cook for 3 minutes.
  • Dissolve a tablespoon of corn-flour in a tablespoon of water, and add the mixture in the sauce to thicken it up.
  • Add the pasta and cook for 1 minute.
  • Serve immediately.
• at night, Monday 20 July 2009
  Food | Today’s dinner: Ravioli with chorizo (Comment!)

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• OpenOffice and Latex equation syntax

• On Fedora: sudo yum -y install openoffice.org-ooolatex. Plain. Effectiveness.

• at night, Wednesday 15 July 2009
  Fedora, Mini-Post | OpenOffice and Latex equation syntax (Comment!)

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• Photos from Greek Coding Camp

• !None](/photos/events/gcc2009/)
  With GCC/2009 now completed, my photostream has been uploaded at /photos/events/gcc2009/.

• at night, Wednesday 15 July 2009
  Foss, Linux | Photos from Greek Coding Camp (Comment!)

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• GCC/09: init

• Here I am, at Crete, participating in the first ever Greek Coding Camp.

  We’re at Paleochora, a small town in South Crete. At the moment we’re 10 people, and today a few more are coming along. We’re sitting at the camping’s cafe/restaurant, under mulberry trees and the loud sound of with birds and insects hacking on open source.

  We arrived here in the morning after a good trip with the boat from Piraeus. Good thing we caught the bus which came directly from Patras, entered the boat and dropped us in the city center of Chania. We went to the village home of alup, eaten a rich breakfast from his parents which included the local specialty of Bougatsa. Yummy!

  Four guys together with camping equipment managed entered the tiny car of local guru hoo2 and traveled to Paleochora. The day started with the usual laughter overdose with the local group.

  The teams formed into projects which can last a few days. For today, we have the following projects:

  • Translation of 45+ standard Open Office Templates
  • Creation of Greek-specific OOo Templates (eg. υπεύθυνη δήλωση)
  • Openoffice Testing Greek Build
  • Transifex workflow support for translations. Development taking place on our bitbucket ‘reviews’ branch.
  • Bugfix in Xorg for letter ‘ς’

  Lunch included a local specialty, τσιγαριαστό αρνί (special lamb in casserole with olive oil and herbs) and, of course, a healthy dose of Tsikoudia. Afternoon session was on quite soon.

  Follow our work on Twitter at the #gcc09 hashtag!

  
  (cc) by Charlie Phillips

• at night, Saturday 4 July 2009
  Foss, Linux | GCC/09: init (Comment!)

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• Greek Coding Camp ’09 is ON!

• 

  Right on!

• at night, Saturday 4 July 2009
  Random | Greek Coding Camp ’09 is ON! (Comment!)

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• LinuxTag ’09

• Here I am, at Berlin, at LinuxTag and FUDCon Berlin ’09.

  Quite a few things exactly like last year: Berlin is beautiful, East Berlin is fantastic. Weather is great, food is good and I’m having a blast. LinuxTag still tries to balance between a hacker conference and a trade show, admittedly not very well.

  A few things different this year. Michael Jackson died. We’ve got FUDCon this year organized in a way to overlap with LinuxTag. Talk about strong Fedora presence! Everywhere I go I see people with blue polo shirts, it’s simply rocking wild. This gave the chance to more folks from the US to fly here and join our partae which is great.

  Once again, I created a ‘Faces’ album with portraits from the event by invading people’s privacy.

  /photos/events/linuxtag-09/

  
  Jesse Keating

• at night, Sunday 28 June 2009
  Foss, Linux | LinuxTag ’09 (Comment!)

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