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Saturday October 11th, 2008
today’s best moment
From thomas.apestaart.org, 10 hours ago,
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Yesterday was spent doing a company event (climbing trees in ‘el bosc vertical’) - I had to rub my eyes when I got on the bus to see the bus close to full, some 45 people leaving from the World Trade Center. We’ve come a long way.
I had a flight booked on Saturday morning [...]
Tuesday October 7th, 2008
Fluendo, Dell and Ubuntu
From thomas.apestaart.org, 4 days ago,
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Dell has started shipping pre-bundled Ubuntu with our Fluendo codecs.
Julien showed me this image on the site:
Whee!
Monday October 6th, 2008
Bal Marginal
From thomas.apestaart.org, 5 days ago,
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This weekend we were invited to one of Kristien’s friends’ birthday party. It was dress-up, and the goal was to dress like people who don’t have any money and are invited to a formal dance.
This was a perfect match for my cross-dress-shoe habit, so I wanted to go one step further. I ended [...]
Sunday October 5th, 2008
new skill
From thomas.apestaart.org, 6 days ago,
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Was forced to pick up a new skill today - driving through pouring rain with non-functional wipers. I had to drive for 2 hours like that. I got out of the car all cross-eyed and with a hint of headache.
The trick is to focus on the tail lights of other cars and the [...]
Friday October 3rd, 2008
Dentist
From thomas.apestaart.org, 8 days ago,
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Faithful readers already know I am not the biggest fan of dentists. Last year in August I had an urgent problem, and my regular Spanish dental office apparently was closed all of August, without any information on what to do if I had an urgent problem, not on their voice mail and not on [...]
Vorbis in Flash
From thomas.apestaart.org, 8 days ago,
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I was wondering why Arek was arriving later than usual to work, to the point of being late at his own developer meeting where just a week before he instituted a rule that the last person in the meeting is to buy the rest of the team beer on Friday. This week he told [...]
Tuesday September 30th, 2008
Sandman
From thomas.apestaart.org, 11 days ago,
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What’s the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you’ve actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?
There isn’t one.
Oh. I thought maybe there was.
No. There isn’t
The good thing about discovering a comic 20+ years after it was first [...]
Thursday September 11th, 2008
Amsterdamned
From thomas.apestaart.org, 1 month ago,
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Arrived last night, IBC starts on Friday and I’m setting the booth up with Pedro today.
Every time I have a hotel reservation for work for some reason the hotel always thinks the room’s not paid for yet and ask me for payment. It’s a curse.
On the plane I had a craving to go to [...]
Monday September 8th, 2008
Six
From thomas.apestaart.org, 1 month ago,
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Ten years ago (and, ok, 1 day - I am a bit late in posting this) a band called Mansun released an album called Six.
I remember seeing a video for ‘Wide Open Space’, still one of my favourite alltime tracks, which was one of the singles off their first album, ‘Attack of the Grey Lantern’. [...]
Sunday September 7th, 2008
Travelympics
From thomas.apestaart.org, 1 month ago,
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Lately I’ve been able to knock down my door-to-door time travelling between my apartment in Barcelona and the one in Brussels to around 4 hours. Today I managed a sleek 4:03. I only count trips that don’t involve taxis because taxis are cheating. (Getting Kristien to come pick me up is ok [...]
Friday August 29th, 2008
mach 0.9.4 ‘Maroc’ is released
From thomas.apestaart.org, 1 month ago,
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This new release adds support for recent OpenSuSE versions, and fixes a bug where mach fails to work because yum –version now outputs much more than the usual one line:
[thomas@ana mach2]$ yum –version
3.2.17
Installed: rpm-4.4.2.3-2.fc9.i386 at 2008-05-24 02:06
Built : Fedora Project at 2008-04-18 16:52
Committed: Bill Nottingham [...]
Congrats
From thomas.apestaart.org, 1 month ago,
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to OpenedHand on cashing out! May you all be made rich and live prosperously.
Just make sure you don’t get sucked into the Black Hole of Being Acquired, but keep hacking. Make us proud!
Thursday August 28th, 2008
Stackoverflow
From thomas.apestaart.org, 1 month ago,
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I’ve been listening to the StackOverflow podcast for a few months. I never was into podcasting but decided I should give it a try and I decided around the time Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood started their podcast. I’ve followed both of their blogs for a while now, mostly because Joel is very [...]
Tuesday August 26th, 2008
Angel
From thomas.apestaart.org, 1 month ago,
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There’s a guy in Barcelona who runs an antique store. Well, maybe it’s not an antique store, because it doesn’t like like stuff my mom would actually buy. And I’m not even sure if he’s selling.
But he cooks for anyone who comes in, whatever is available, and turns it into honest and magical [...]
Monday August 25th, 2008
distro conditionals in spec files
From thomas.apestaart.org, 1 month ago,
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Every time I have to write a spec file and do something specifically for a certain distro version (like, for example, packages were renamed or split or …) I end up trying to remember what the last package was in which I used it to have the most up-to-date version of that macro.
And once in [...]