I was reading an article about how Google+ is the future. Why the Google+ long game is brilliant The author is trying to make a point, and I get it. But when skimming, I just picked up the lines in bold: I live in Gmail. Google Voice is my phone number. Google Hangouts is my new […]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Git
One needs the following in order face a git disaster and live to tell the story: Humility, to read the fine manual. Courage, to submit your code to the will of the force. Common sense, to stop you from manually editing any file under ./.git. Luck. Tactical smarts, because sometimes you need a sniper and […]
You’re probably doing it right when everyone starts complaining
I don’t remember who said that, but I do believe that’s exactly what’s happening with Ubuntu and the new Unity desktop. I have not tried it out yet, but given the strong criticism that Unity is receiving, I believe it is all set for world domination.
getting back to the fun in computer programming
First, a few quotes: A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer’s idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a […]
horror at livejournal
Just noticed this weekend that I don’t seem to have any control over ads that LiveJournal shows on my blog. Was browsing on a borrowed PC with no AdBlock, and was shocked to see the right side occupied by a huge flash video of a blonde teenager seemingly chatting on a laptop and “pointing downwards”. […]
No Mono!
Almost everyone who uses the Gnome desktop is familiar with one of either Tomboy or F-Spot … two tools that have become poster boys of the Mono project. Well, I decided to stop using them. Not only that, I decided to purge the root of evil, which is the Mono project itself from my Desktop. […]
verbatim, etc. in beamer
I have been unsuccessful at creating a verbatim environment in a beamer frame. The manual says that it is fully supported, and all you have to do is set the [fragile] argument for that slide. So the following is supposed to work. (Note the weird indenting, since verbatim has to be at the beginning of […]
completing the circle
I have always fancied myself as a small-time free software contributor, fixing a line of code here, filing a useful bug report there, and occasionally jumping into discussions. But finally I got around to putting in a concrete contribution that is worth mentioning. The latest version of Dia is about to be released, and I have […]
my kind of notebook PC is finally here!
Finally decided that I do need a notebook now. The correct segment for me seems to be ultra-thin notebooks, rather than a netbook. And just in time, here comes the HP DV2. The general opinion on the inter-tubes suggests that it’s a good buy. It fulfills the following things that I am looking for: Light (it’s only […]
on becoming a father …
After I became a father, the one question that has been asked most frequently is, of course, "So, how does it feel to be a father?". It’s impossible to describe that feeling in words, but here are a few things so you get the hint: When you have just become a father, it’s okay to […]