Entries from April 2007 ↓

I stumbleupon this great site today, it’s a comic strip kind of geeky but very nice. Check out some gems.

Here is a classic Pointers
This is an exam I’ll love to take some day Substitute
This one shows how creepy some people are Paths
Sudoku
Wikipedia hard truth
Command Line Fu, sadly I know several people to whom this may happen
This one isn’t a joke in fact it’s very interesting Map of the Internet
Beliefs, creationism all the way!
Delicious
Open Source

intelligent jokes
Marketing Interview
Jacket
I can think a couple of people that will think this is me Resonance
Random Number, so yea think your function names
Nash
Romantic Drama Equation

last but not least What xkcd Means, hehe I do the last one.

and many more I read before I decided to post this so, thanks Randall I had fun

and of course here a direct link to the RSS or for the old fashion Archive

The always interesting Bruce Eckel has an article about marketing it’s call Old vs New Marketing. He has a very intesting point although I disaggre with the model he proposed at the end. I don’t think you can actually have legit market(ing) around the model, unless is some website that’s supported by ads (like everything else today). Anyway enjoy the read.

update: sorry for the crappy post, I was testing scribefire and it got directly to frontpage

this is an interesting video about science http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7044753105944203252&hl=en

- the first flew minutes explain exactly my feeling about religion
- and in the process they finally explained to me what exactly and why “the game of life” is and why it’s so important.
- now the multiverse thing, that just seems like what a religion predicts.
- after that (around 30min) it just turns into the “why if we live inside a computer”

either way it’s an interesting way to spend 49 minutes. Enjoy

some people I know could use it as advice

the.codist{} - All I Need To Know To Be A Better Programmer I Learned In Kindergarten

In case this isn’t happening to you several URLs are blocked at RD/Codetel. So since I’m out of google.com , gmail.com and google.com/reader I’m stuck with the plain old Internet. I have to guess the URLs I need

In case someone is interested I called, they have no idea what’s happening and a “general issue” is supposed to be solve within 8hr, the first report was around 1 so we got until 9 to go read a book or something.

Before you say it one +1 for desktop apps, -10 for webapps.

Good luck I remember one of the URLs I needed, back to code…

update: 7:59am and it is still not working, I love their 8hr timeframe.

update: 6:40pm it’s working again it was fix probably some time within the day.

I stumble upon this interesting article about xhtml2, html5 aka whatwg. This also reminded me of an article I read about the other day about html5 forms. Sadly and as usual microsoft is not involve in neither one, in fact according to the first article they are making yet-another-group inside w3c…

When are developers going to stop saying yes to them? take for example xhtml they don’t even support version one and it seems xhtml2 is dead because the default browser just doesn’t care to add a xml parser.

why can’t we go to “you need a modern browser to see this webpage” and add a little explanation as to why using a browser from 2000 is bad?

I need to write a document and I said I’ll give abiword a try, when I reach for the spell checker it just didn’t work… I fire up google and found nothing so I reach for IRC and ended up in #abiword on gnome servers.

While there “sum1″ help me (thanks man) and it turns out I didn’t had the spell check libraries also for some reason abiword is not showing a popup (on my machine) complaining it’s not there.

so for getting the dict in ubuntu you need

$apt-get install aspell-es

and the way we found out is with

$ enchant-lsmod -list-dicts
en: ‘aspell’ (Aspell Provider)
en_CA: ‘aspell’ (Aspell Provider)
en_GB: ‘aspell’ (Aspell Provider)
en_US: ‘aspell’ (Aspell Provider)
es: ‘aspell’ (Aspell Provider)

and this one shows the current language.

enchant-lsmod -lang
en_AU: aspell = Aspell Provider (/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so)

for some reason my ubuntu thinks it’s australian….

Hope this helps someone when google indexes it. Since there is very little information around.

this is actually an old post that for some reason I stored instead of publish, enjoy.

high altitude balloon
http://balloons.space.edu/habp/project_4/airphotos.html

bike pooling
http://tamgo.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/bike-pooling/

Where the F*ck is Carmen Sandiego?
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1747610

Let’s Fighting Love (translated)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b1s5VhOWH4A

How Superman Should Have Ended
http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=151358

i-dare-you-to-crap-off-of-that
http://stewiesplayground.com/2007/03/13/i-dare-you-to-crap-off-of-that  /

Introducing……………….the Apple iRack (note apple here is a tool not the joke)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KWYYIY4jQ

At A place who’s name I won’t tell. there are some new old rules being applied, so here are some things you maybe find interesting
browse at work or foxyProxy

Another great article I found by Issac Asimov