In proper ubuntu fashion, two pictures I took on the way back from a conference in December of 2005. The colors have already become part of my ubuntu desktop. The river in the back is the river Aoos (pronounced uh-oh-oh-s) and spelled Αώος, if you are interested. Picasa continues to work beautifully,...
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A big, huge, monumental, thank you to the wonderful people at google who made picasa work for linux, too. I have been experimenting with picasa on my ubuntu box since yesterday. This morning, I am happy to say that Picasa works on my AMD64 box. Here is how I did it: 1) I...
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I don’t know if it is something firm or something that will go through the motions of EU bureaucracy, but according to the following link, the European Commission has suggested that software is not patentable. This, of course, is wonderful news for all those who actively campaigned and supported the freedom of software from corporate...
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I stumbled across this absolutely amazing clock displaying year/month/day/hour/min/sec. It requires Flash, but you just have to marvel at the care the designer took to make it happen… Catch this screenshot of the clock in action Enjoy, IKD
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Happy Mother’s Day to everyone.
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A while ago, a good friend sent me an email about an upcoming important moment which would occur on01:02:03 on 04/05/06, or in simpler language early after midnight on the 5th of April. I saw a similar posting in Bipolar Kat’s blog, where I commented that for some of us, this magic...
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I was reading Wil Wheaton’s excellent blog this morning and came across this amazing posting about Net Neutrality Basically, a scheme to transform the entire internet into categories based on fees and moneys paid to and from players who have money. You have money, your site gets preferrential treatment. You don’t have money to...
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May 1st, today. Different countries, different celebrations, different perspectives… Most countries celebrate Labor day today, with the exception of the United States where the original May 1st demonstration happened in Chicago two centuries ago… If you want to read more on this, follow this link. Also a detailed account of the events in Haymarket appears...
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