According to the Geek Zodiac, I am an Undead, since I was born in 1976. I am apparently soulful, transcendental and know the value of all life. I am also haunted, tormented and have difficulty connecting to humanity. Obviously, this is utter nonsense. I am clearly a Robot: law-abiding, dedicated and logical as well as [...]
Categorised as: cool stuff, skepsis
I got a new phone. It’s my first real smart phone, it has Android and two CPU cores. I like it. It’s an LG Optimus 2x and it looks like this: I like it for having a Linux kernel, a big screen, a 3.5 mm earphone jack, convenient volume buttons, a slick design and because [...]
Categorised as: cool stuff, gadgets, lifestyle
Yesterday, I wrote about Scry, a PHP photo publishing script that I basically like for the same reasons I like my favorite Linux distribution: simplicity and elegance make it easy to use and to maintain. To make things even easier, tonight I wrote a small bash script that allows me to publish a collection of [...]
Categorised as: cool stuff
For some time now I’ve been meaning to write about Arch, the Linux distribution I’ve been using for almost a year now. Today I stumbled onto an old OSNews article, which perfectly describes my feelings on Arch. The article is in fact from 2004, but if you replace Mozzila-firebird in the text with Firefox, it [...]
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Whenever I do something or go out with family or friends, I usually take lots of pictures. And so do they, at least some of them. Afterwards, we are often interested in each other’s pictures, so I usually collect them all to show them to everyone. But that is easier said than done. I have [...]
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UPDATE: I found a nice low-maintenance php photo album script that appears useful for mu purposes. I re-inserted an image into this post. It links to the album. UPDATE: I dropped Zenphoto since I started to really hate it, so I have no way currently to show the pictures referred to in this post. Sorry. [...]
Categorised as: cool stuff, travel