Yearly Archive: 2009
Embarrassing…
The Eurovision Song Contest has been around for a while now (for more than 50 years!!) and it still doesn’t get any less embarrassing: 20th out of 25 participants. Congratulations, Germany! Once again, you’ve done it! Well, looks like sex…
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Converting several flash videos into a single MPEG4
Today, I came across the documentary The World according to Monsanto. Since I was quite intrigued (Roundup gets sold here in NZ as well), I wanted to watch it. But instead of watching the 10 separate flash videos (hosted on…
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CV in LaTeX
Even though I’m not a big fan of LaTeX, it has its advantages: I always liked the fonts, being a lot nicer than in MS Word or OpenOffice. Also, from a computer scientist perspective, LaTeX only reads your source tex…
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Ubuntu 9.04
Hmm… I was actually looking forward to installing Ubuntu 9.04, but after reading this article in The H Open Source, I’m a bit cautious. Considering that 8.04 had a rocky start on my laptop (and that was an LTS release!)…
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The power of paper!
I’m not such a big fan of posting videos on my blog (there’s enough websites doing that already!), but the following one just blew my mind!! Imagine, abandoning plastic and going back to good ol’ paper. Need a computer? No…
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Let’s get wet!
It was time to put my new hiking boots to the test! I was quite confident, that I had walked them in, just by walking in them to work several times. For ages did we want to go and check…
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Sun runs out of fuel?
WTF? For once (i.e., yesterday) I’m not reading news and then I’m missing this: Oracle Buys Sun. Holy moly!!! First, Sun bought MySQL last year and now they got bought by a big commercial database system company. I really wonder,…
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No8s again. Finally.
Man, I’m quite happy that the V8s left Hamilton again. On Friday afternoon, while being at work, I was wondering what all that commotion outside was. I couldn’t really figure out where the noise was coming from, but at one…
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