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Martial arts, Zürich style
I like martial arts and I’ve practiced a couple during my life, and tried a few as well. Recently I became interested in them once again when a mail informed me of the existence of a dōjō near my house in Zürich. And indeed Budokan is a dōjō; only Japanese martial arts are practiced there.…
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IBM, I'm getting a Dell
When I was young, the laptops were Toshiba. Toshiba Satellite to be specific. Latter on IBM took that title with its Thinkpad, and the first laptop I bought was a Thinkpad which worked quite good. Very good, it’s been working almost non stop for four yeras already. I upgraded the hard disk and I gave…
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What is a blog?
Going back to Plone, after using WordPress for a long while, and yet again inflicting a painful migration on myself, I ended up asking myself this question: What is a blog? and I’ve found an answer that really surprised me. I’m a very structured person. Do you remember how everybody had a folder named MP3…
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Who are Conor O'Brien and James McMahon?
Conor O’Brien of the Raglan Clinic and James McMahon of Hassett are the people that own me €1250, the deposit of the apartment I rented for more than a year in 4, Windermere, Gilford Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. That I returned in perfect condition and was accepted as such, more than a month ago. Now…
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Typing Esperanto II
I’ve created deb packages with my patches to Esperanto layouts. To use them, in Ubuntu, for they are packages for Ubuntu, just follow the instructions for my PPA and upgrade.Then pick them in the configuration as usual.
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Typing Esperanto in Ubuntu (or any other X)
I’ve got tired of not being able to easily type in Esperanto in Linux. There are some articles out there explaining it how and the are always convoluted and I’ve never seen one that gets to the point of typing “ŭ”, the always try very hard to get “ĝ”. There’s an Esperanto layout in Ubuntu…
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The future of OpenID
The future of OpenID, I believe, is more likely to be in hundreds… thousands of little web applications consuming OpenID because it comes built in with the framework used to build the application than the big guys consuming it: Django Ruby on Rails Zope/Plone
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Sound in space
I wonder when we will start to see DVDs of space tv-shows, like Babylon 5 and Star Trek, where you can pick to watch them with no sounds on space. I’m really pissed off at the sounds of the Voyager on the presentation, they don’t even add to the scene, it only makes a beautiful…
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Being a prolific blogger
Recently my friend Juanjo pointed out how much activity my blog has been having recently. Thinking about it, he is right and there are two reasons why this may be the case: I’m more inspired than usual. I’m not sure if this is the case, and even if it is, it’s not helpful for me…
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xkcd clock
Randall Munroe evidently lives in a world of 12-hs clocks (instead of 24-hs clocks). Or maybe there’s a message beyond my understanding skills.