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The purpose of this blog: Test if the EBN aggregator works That is all. Apparently I need to brush-up on my HTML.

My first thoughts were: "This is hilarious! Too hilarious to be true..." Here is what I read: "With the slimming feature, anyone can appear more slender -- instantly." Yes, that's right: it says "appear", not "become". So this is not a TV ad for slimming pills or other chemistry. This is marketing for modern digital photographic technology -- on the very homepage of a well-known company. Go to hp.com and read more: Read More

and if it is ... I don't care :D it's a pianist who try to get hired in a piano-bar and he plays one of his compostions, and the owner is impressed so he ask him if it's one of his composition so the pianist tell him that he only play his own stuff, so the owner ask for the title annd the tune is called: "your wife is a lesbian because she told me last night while I was doing her". the owner asked him for another one , again the tune is amazing, so he ask for the title, and he get " Your sister is a whore, she did the whole NFL", still not sure the bar owner ask for another one, once again he hear one of the best song he ever heard, and he asks for the title and he get "Your father is gay because he blew me in the parking lot last night." the owner say to the guy ok you're hired but please don't tell my customers any of your title. so the first day the buy play and it's a phenomenal success, after the first set he goes to the washroom and when he get out an old lady tell "Do you know your fly is open and your huge cock is showing?" ... " If know it!!! Madam I wrote it!!!" Read More

I just read Pat Eyler's blog Reading Ola Bini writing about some interesting discussions on Ruby metaprogramming and how it compared with Lisp macros for writing Domain Specific Languages. In one of the references Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP, amongst other things people discuss how to implement prolog as a DSL in Ruby or Lisp. A long time ago some of my 'hobby programming' projects were writing prolog interpreters in various languages; I started off with a Pascal one and added things to it, translated it into Modula-2, and I did a Object Oriented one in Objective-C. I've started translating the Objective-C one into Ruby, and it's quite fun seeing how the code compares in the two languages. Read More

After months of part time work on this project, it starting to taking shape. What is δ Orionis? It's my own gentoo based distribution. Why I do this? a)because I can and b) I'm starting to be tired of the moronic choices made by all the currently available distributions... I mean the computer is supposed to let me do my work, now I have the impression I'm back to the "good" old days of the winblows 3.1 and 95 era when you had to fight the software to make them work for you ... and it's not good. Read More

Have you ever heard about Project Censored? That project is "a media research group out of Sonoma State University" in California. And it's again that time of the year when it publishes its annual "Top 25 Censored Stories" (attaching the number "2007" to it, for whatever reason). Read More

Just released a new stable version of Gwenview, version 1.4.0. You can find the full announcement here. I am now thinking about the future of Gwenview. There have been talks a few months ago about integrating Gwenview into KDE4. So I guess it's time to get in touch with kde-core to see if they are still ok with this and if it's the right time to start this work. Read More

Wondered this morning why there is no GPG/PGP keysigning scheduled for next week's akademy 2006. Obviously it was forgotten, so after a quick query with the organization team about a free time slot I just posted this to akademy-announce: Read More

You may think that I have blogged about every KDE-related openSUSE build service project by now. Not quite yet. :-) Besides the unsupported backports of openSUSE Factory packages in KDE:KDE3 & KDE:Backports and the experimental stuff in KDE:Playground (like KOffice 1.6 Beta and digiKam 0.9 Beta 2) various people started to package additional applications using the build service in the last founded KDE:Community project. With the help of the community it's not absurd to expect this repository to become the biggest of all KDE projects over time.

Effective as of the upcoming e.V. meeting, after four years of active membership, I've decided to make my membership passive (for those not familiar with the terminology, that's where you're still technically a member, but aren't on the list and don't have voting rights). Read More