Tag archive: Mini-post
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Today’s exploration: Beauty
“In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one’s own existence.” [article, video]
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Quote: On Teams
“I enjoy a working environment where the word ‘team’ is uttered in derision, and view the process of team or community as a result of mutual respect and enlightened self interest as opposed to a management method where fuzzy feelings are elicited to get the benefits and delegate the blame.” (comment by dkite on LWN article)
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Skype wows
Calling to Greek landline phones (both in-town and country-wide) is cheaper with Skype than Forthnet. Yay for N900 handling all my local calls then.
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Greetings.
“To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man… greetings.” (1984)
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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)
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Life colors
“The friends of mine paint with a black color. Because you wasted their red.” (magic de spell)
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Maemo Summit
Yeehaa! I’m going to the Maemo Summit baby! Amsterdam, long time no see! #maesum
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Django Conference!
Getting ready for DjangoCon baby. Portland, here I come.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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OpenOffice and Latex equation syntax
On Fedora:
sudo yum -y install openoffice.org-ooolatex. Plain. Effectiveness.
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Hosting foo.
I love Webfaction for Python sites. But for PHP it’s been a PITA the past months, despite the friendliness and fast response of the support stuff. Need to find solutions for d.g.com fast.
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Platform nazi
Πώς ξενερώνω όταν βλέπω κάτι τέτοιο σε ένα site: “Click here to reset your password: http://www…LostYourPassword.aspx/…”. Μπλιαχ.
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Similar images
Playing around Google Similar Images. Very useful. I remember playing around this technology 5+ years ago with IBM DB2 Extenders. It’s amazing to see how much time a research-like cutting-edge technology needs to come to the masses.
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Software #!$@!
My software tortures me. WordPress just marked a bunch of past good comment as spam (sorry guys!), and Firefox auto-deleted its history and bookmarks.
