Tag archive: Personal
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Blog temporarily off
I now blog on miniblog.glezos.com and tweet regularly at @glezos.
Oh, and for those living under a rock, I now work on my startup, Transifex. I blog there too.
Apologies for not updating this for so long. See you on the above links for now!
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at night, Wednesday 25 April 2012
Personal
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Blog temporarily off (Comment!)
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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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at night, Saturday 19 September 2009
Mini-Post, Personal, Tech/web
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Maemo Summit (Comment!)
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I now have an Amazon Wishlist!
I recently bought a birthday present to a good friend as a ‘thank you’ to all the great stuff he’s done. Seeing how useful a wishlist could be, I decided to create an Amazon wishlist of my own. People who like me (or my work) now have the chance of buying me something that I need and like!
I’ve put a little bit of everything in there — stuff that could improve my work, my photography, my life. So — do you remember (you know who) when you mentioned that you’d love to see some of my rock climbing photographs with a wide-angle lens? Heh.
Oh, and what do you know.. while writing this, I just realize that my birthday is coming up in a month and half (4th of August).
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at night, Sunday 21 June 2009
Personal
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I now have an Amazon Wishlist! (Comment!)
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Friday nights
What I love about Friday nights (post-clubbing post-3am):
- The feeling
- The Italian and Spanish songs on the radio on the way back home
- The empty narrow streets
- The delicious open bakery at the top part of Agiou Nicolaou street in Patras
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at night, Saturday 13 June 2009
Personal
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Friday nights (Comment!)
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Software #!$@!
My software tortures me. WordPress just marked a bunch of past good comment as spam (sorry guys!), and Firefox auto-deleted its history and bookmarks.
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at night, Sunday 7 June 2009
Mini-Post, Personal, Random
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Software #!$@! (Comment!)
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Pumped
So I admit it. I love adventures. Guilty as charged.
I’m not sure what chemical substances or which exact butterfly wing flaps caused this. It’ was always there, from a kid I guess, a mutation extraordinaire. Things go wrong and I like it. Problems come up and I feel excited. Solution seem obvious but the prove not to be. The 30m-route’s last rock climbing hold looks good but it’s a sloper.
What a rush!
Maybe it’s the need for problem-solving painted with colours of the engineering palette. Maybe it’s the need for reminding myself that life, still, happens and not everything can be predicted. Something like a warning, in case something really bad happens. Heck, maybe I’m just an adrenaline junkie.
Today I travelled to Athens with 1 euro in my pocket. Sure, things might have went bad. The bus might have broken down and leave is in the middle of nowhere. My pickup might not make it and I might have to take a cab. I might have desperately needed more water than what I had.
The thing is, all the above sound really exciting to me. I find adventures being great. They make us think out of the box for solutions in problems we haven’t faced so far. They get our body out of its comfort zone and into the vast unknown, into the void that spreads beyond the circle of the easily predictable.
They also remind us that we’re still, in fact, human.
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at night, Friday 15 May 2009
Personal
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Pumped (Comment!)
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Dawn
Successfully finishing a big task of yours with sunrise… Priceless feeling.
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at night, Saturday 9 May 2009
Mini-Post, Personal
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Dawn (Comment!)
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Notes from Amsterdam
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- Feeling like the guy with the best host’s house in the world.
- Went for a walk at the local Saturday market. We bought a few stuff to cook some nice dishes during the week.
- On Saturday afternoon the city felt more like Edinburgh than Amsterdam. The World Cup took place and the city was full of Scottish people drinking and singing in the street. The city center was so alive from all the joy — a great Saturday night. The Dutch set them crying back across the English channel™.
- Saturday night in Amsterdam, we couldn’t not go for a walk through the Red Light District. The atmosphere in that part of the city was amazing, felt like London’s Soho and other districts where primitive feelings flourish. Upon returning home I was thinking how interesting it is that there are places in big cities in the world where restrictions are lowered and freedom is given another perspective.
- Very close to where we’re staying was the place where Anne Frank wrote her diaries. It’s a bit stupid, but it makes me feel a bit strange inside. Wakes up a desire of me to stop whining and improve.
- I’ve said so many times “Thanks! I’ll buy you a beer next time we meet!” to Max Spevack. Now that I am in Amsterdam, I’ll need to get him wasted to repay those back. Instead, I’ve decided to do some cooking for him and Diego when I’m having a break from the Transifex stuff I’m doing here. The menu so far included strong Spaghetti aglio e olio, with a note of rocket and gin, Tagliatelle carbonara with chorizo sausage and paprica, and roast chicken with rosemary and melted cheese for today.
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at night, Tuesday 31 March 2009
Fedora, Personal
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Notes from Amsterdam (Comment!)
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Amsterdam packing
Almost ready for a week-long trip to Amsterdam, hosting courtesy of Max Spevack. Expecting lots of hacking, fantastic discussions and good food. Two meetings in Athens before leaving Greece at 2:30pm… long first half of day tomorrow, looking forward to the special moment before the plane take-off.
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at night, Thursday 26 March 2009
Mini-Post, Personal, Thoughts
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Amsterdam packing (Comment!)
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Sunday Turkish Coffee
Enjoying a cup of good Turkish coffee.
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at night, Sunday 25 January 2009
Personal
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Sunday Turkish Coffee (Comment!)
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Alex Panagopoulos
Ι just love Alex’s drawings. Emotional and engaging, dreamy and bittersweet.
“The exchange of flowers”
Alex PanagopoulosAlex and I did quite a few crazy things together during University and later. I remember endless nights talking about God and chess before hitting breakfast to do some more talking. I remember freaking out on our first day in rock climbing and breaking Alex’s leg on a fall. Hitting on girls with the size of our camera lenses. Driving California State Route 1 and trying to dodge bears in Yosemite Park in the night.
Such an amazing guy.
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at night, Monday 19 January 2009
Personal
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Alex Panagopoulos (Comment!)
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A seat on the Fedora Board
Either due to ignorance or simply blunt encouragement for my evil plans for World Domination ™ (wicked music played in the background), I was appointed by Red Hat to take a seat on the Fedora Board.
I’ll start off by saying a big ‘Thank you’ to all who supported my candidacy and this decision. Fedora has evolved into one of the most influential and vibrant Linux distributions today and it’s a great honour to serve on its Board and represent the community on the issues the Board is accountable for.
I joined Fedora as a contributor much later than a lot of other folks. I still remember the enthusiasm when my Fedora account was approved. Since then I got a lot of similar enthusiasms: first patch accepted, first influencial changeset accepted, email from the Leader, first conference… they’re so many. Now I’m yet again thrilled for having an opportunity to experience new things and serve the community in a different way.
The first thing on my agenda is take some time and grasp the new responsibilities and the areas I’d like to be accountable for. I’ve written quite a few big goals on my mission statement and I’d like to start talking with people right away about them.
This is one of the reasons I just booked myself a ticket to FOSDEM. I’ll mostly hang around the Fedora booth and the Python devroom, in case you’d like to find me and have some more TODOs added on my agenda. Or just fire up your email client and get in contact with any issues you’d like to discuss as part of my new role.
Off for some satanic thoughts now with my hot chocolate before going to bed.
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at night, Saturday 10 January 2009
Fedora, Personal, Thoughts, Transifex
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A seat on the Fedora Board (Comment!)
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Greek riots ‘big picture’
Greek riots in pictures from Boston’s The Big Picture.
No comment.
View full collection from boston.com
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at night, Monday 15 December 2008
Foss, Linux, Personal
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Greek riots ‘big picture’ (Comment!)
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Coding @ Τολό
@Τροχόσπιτο στο Τολό Αργολίδας. Η ημέρα περιλαμβάνει αρκετό coding (σήμερα μπήκε η υποστήριξη ομάδων μεταφράσεων, γλωσσών και διαλέκτων στο Tx) αλλά και άλλα ωραία όπως μπάνιο στη θάλασσα, αναρρίχηση, barbeque και ύπνο με τον ήχο των κυμάτων. Ωραία ειν’ εδώ..
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at night, Wednesday 22 October 2008
Mini-Post, Personal
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Coding @ Τολό (Comment!)
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A good evening
The delicious local dinner with friends. The group of old chaps singing at the next table. The favourite tunes played on the guitar home. The feeling of satisfaction from today’s hacking. Overall a delightful evening.
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at night, Tuesday 7 October 2008
Mini-Post, Personal
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A good evening (Comment!)
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Yesterday’s girl
Rusted brandy in a diamond glass everything is made from dreams time is made from honey slow and sweet only the fools know what it means Temptation, temptation, temptation oh, temptation, temptation, I can’t resist I know that she is made of smoke but I’ve lost my way she knows that I am broke so that I must play Temptation, temptation, temptation oh, woah, temptation, temptation, I can’t resist Dutch pink and Italian blue she is there waiting for you my will his disappeared now my confusion’s oh so clear Temptation, temptation, temptation woah, woah, temptation, temptation I can’t resist
Tom Waits - Temptation (Album: Frank’s Wild Years)
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at night, Sunday 5 October 2008
Personal
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Yesterday’s girl (Comment!)
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Late FUDCon Brno photos & recap
Upon returning from FUDCon, I had a lot of things needing attention, so here’s a wrap-up post on this uber-cool conference.
First of all, I think I’ll agree with Max that this was probably our best FUDCon so far. Not wanting to decrease the importance of other FUDCons, the fact that the folks at Brno put up their best to have every little detail covered was pretty much obvious to the participants. Content, venue, wireless, food, hotel — everything was good. Thumbs-up to everyone who put a helping hand!
NicuAs usual, I took the chance of the conference to invade people’s comfort zones by taking portrait photos of them. I like doing so in events, since I think it’s a good way one can describe the atmosphere of an event. I’ve just uploaded a bunch of pictures taken from my camera (either by me, cmpahar or anyone who got a hold of it):
/photos/events/fudcon-brno-08/
Barcamp
The second day was the Barcamp. I attended a few quite interesting presentations. Jeroen held a Custom Spins one and answered a few technical questions of mine. Max dealt with some Fedora-related questions I also had, like what different levels of ‘officiality’ spins there are (3rd party, approved, and releng-supported ones). The idea of having a framework in place for localized spins got into my mind once again — would be great if we either torrent-shipped language-specific and/or location-specific spins. For example, I learned from Diego that the word ‘OpenOffice’ is trademarked in Brazil and they have to replace the package with BrOffice. Having an framework that allows local communities build, host, and support more or less these spins would be a pretty good thing IMO. Now, if only I could make days longer. :-)
JonRobThe OLPC folks discussed a feature they’re working on which personally I’m looking forward to it in great anticipation: Sugar on Fedora. The package is already there, but those hackers are working with Greg to make it seamlessly available as a normal Desktop, available through GDM and stuff. Amazing. This could turn normal PCs in schools into OLPC-like ecosystems, lowering the barrier of a school (and country) to experiment and use these modern educational tools. They’re also working in getting the spin they’re using as close to Fedora as possible — working with upstream more, and of course, as a benefit, reduce their maintenance costs. Looking forward to both features.
My talk was right after lunch. I wrote a few things in the previous post, not much more to say about it. I’ll try to transcribe it in this week, however I’m not good at predicting these kind of stuff. Let’s just hope I’ll be able to grab a couple of hours from an evening or night of mine and get this done, as a couple of people has requested it. Will try, as I think I still haven’t got a proper rest from the event.
A little later Francesco Ugolini described a few idea he has on the Ambassadors project. Listening to them made me very happy, as I realized that some discussions we had with him and other folks in the project are gradually becoming a reality. The Ambassadors project is all about having a global effort for spreading the word on Fedora — it has a budget, a very active central committee, and is extremely good in organizing these stuff. The Localization Project, on the other hand, is very good in forming local teams working on Fedora; both on technical stuff (translations) as well as on local LUG presentations, meetings, release parties. So it makes total sense to help both projects get more by working together. For example, a bunch of Fedora folks in Italy want to spend a weekend fixing bugs or having a translation marathon? The Ambassadors project (with the Community Architecture team) can help them get there, maybe by buying them the pizza and drinks. So, I really think we’ve got a good ecosystem in both projects that serves different purposes, and using them together can help us achieve more. :-)
FUDPub included, as usual, good food and loads of beer. Some Fedorans were singing with guitars, while the rest of us chatting and taking lots of photos (some well-lit, some not).
Day 3
Next day it was hacking day again. Transifex packaging, work on adding translation statistics support, and talking with people. Later on we went to the Brno city center for sightseeing. Yet another pub in the evening, making a 5 out of 5 evenings with beer in Brno.
Other notable FUDCon happenings:
- Nicu‘s FUDCon web comic “Size matters” was fantastic. Everyone in the amphitheater burst into laughs when they read it.
- The event’s T-shirt is fantastic. Judging by his smile, I think Max enjoyed giving them out as much as we enjoyed receiving them.
- Chris Bacharakis once again gave us some good laughs. Returning to Patras a few people were actually asking “tell us a funny story that happened with Chris”. And of course there are many, including the one where Chris tried to ask the tram to stop at the tram stop by pressing the red button on top of the door. The tram of course stopped. Immediately. A guy in the 70s was ejected on the front glass, an old lady almost took off, and we were trying to realize what just happened.
- Had a good laugh at the pub on the last day, where me, as a guy that avoids meat as much as possible, had to order something from the steakhouse’s menu (haven’t eaten all day). I ordered what seemed the most innocent choice on the menu… which ended up being the biggest dish of the 15-something others on the table. It was a leg knuckle, apparently, which was bigger than my plate.
Next day I took the train for Vienna, and then the plane to Athens, wondering when and where the next European FUDCon will take place, and what I’ll present there.
Until next time then!
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(More photos on Flickr FUDCon and FUDCon Brno pools, FUDCon tag, by fcrippa and nicu)
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at night, Sunday 14 September 2008
Fedora, Personal
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Late FUDCon Brno photos & recap (Comment!)
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Όμορφη Κέρκυρα
Όμορφο νησί, όμορφες παραλίες, όμορφες. παρουσίες, Η μίνι-τενοντίτιδα ακόμη με ενοχλεί (λίγο η αναρρίχηση, λίγο το hacking), παρόλες τις ημέρες ξεκούρασης και το gel mouse pad.
Canal d’amour
Σιδάρι, Κέρκυρα (Corfu)-
at night, Monday 11 August 2008
Personal, Thoughts
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Όμορφη Κέρκυρα (Comment!)
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GUADEC roadtrip
Σκέφτομαι να πάω με αμάξι στην Κωνσταντινούπολη για την GUADEC, στις 7 Ιουλίου. Ψήνεται κανείς για ~~roadtrip~~ αεροπορική (τελικά) επίσκεψη;
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at night, Thursday 12 June 2008
Gnome, Mini-Post, Personal
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GUADEC roadtrip (Comment!)
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GNOME-Glass date conflict #@$!
GUADEC @ Istanbul: 7-12 July 2008. Philip Glass @ Athens: 8-12 July 2008. Darn. Update, 2 hours later: EuroPython 2008: 7-12 July 2008. GAH!
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at night, Tuesday 3 June 2008
Gnome, Mini-Post, Personal
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GNOME-Glass date conflict #@$! (Comment!)