July 2010
5 posts
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Final Retail)... →
Young Ninja →
I wonder what in the future he will be able to do =^.^=
Start a web-server for unit testing in C# →
I’m currently heavily working on Windows (oh irony) and I was confronted with a situation in which I wanted to be able to write a unit test that will access a web-page perform certain operations and…
June 2010
21 posts
How To Triple Boot MAC OS X, Windows 7 and Ubuntu... →
lemongirl:
Trying to radically change my life is not as easy as I expected!
Tumblr Memes
plainclothesman:
Instructions:
1. Leave tumblr for a while.
2. Come back and look at the things people photoshop in an attempt at reblogs.
3. Try and figure out the original context and motivation to be funny.
4. Think of what could have been accomplished with the many hours wasted photoshopping Keanu Reeves.
WCF inactivity timeout=infinite →
One of my last projects in Electrabel has involved the creation of a 3-tier application using the .Net framework. During the development of the application we decided to use a number of libs that we…
Guy plays Mario music live on his violin →
I just posted this over on Boing Boing:
In this video, violinist Teppei Okada plays the soundtrack to a real time Mario game live on his instrument. This — as do most creative geeky…
Where the hell am I? →
I have been away from the blog and from python and macaco-contacts for a while and some people migh have started wondering if I have given up on Ubuntu and desktopcouch, but let me tell you it is…
"Wafu" restaurant in Sydney requires... →
Yukako Ichikawa is a chef at Wafu restaurant in Sydney. It has an interesting policy: the guests have to finish all their food, or else the staff won’t clear their plates. A snippet…
Photo gallery of super narrow space-saving... →
WebUrbanist has fun little blog post about really narrow buildings in Japan. Some of them are seriously skinny. I wonder what it’s like to be inside one.
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Video: Van Gogh portrait made with 2,070 t-shirts →
A Japanese clothing store called Onward Couleurs created this fun video as part of its campaign for their line of colored polo shirts. This recreation of Van Gogh’s self portrait is made…
May 2010
23 posts
Bizarre Little Red Riding Hood commercial →
I remember seeing this ad on TV and wondering why Little Red Riding Hood was hanging out with animals with giant balls and breasts. Didn’t realize it was also quite a hit on YouTube….
Guidelines to development on the HOLLYWOOD...
Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function.
Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be
accomplished in under three seconds. In the movies, modems transmit
data at two gigabytes per second.
When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the
control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
If you display a file on the screen and someone...
BitTorrent Open Sources ‘Improved’ BitTorrent... →
One of the most discussed changes in uTorrent 2.0 is uTP, short for the ‘micro transfer protocol’. UTP is a new and improved implementation of the BitTorrent protocol which is designed to be…
Kenneth Wimer: Ubuntu Maverick UDS Group Photo... →
Due to the weather and the layout of the hotel grounds at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for 10.10.10 (Maverick Meercat) it was impossible to take the group photo outside and from above…
On The Rocks - Bad Romance →
University of Oregon’s all male a’cappella group On The Rocks performs “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga. 4/18/10 http://www.uoontherocks.com Buy On The Rock’s album The Green Room on iTunes here:…
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Techneur: The Only Person Who Cares About Your... →
Hello, my name is JP and I have a problem. I think that my idea matters. I think that by keeping it secret, I’ll be able to develop it into a mega-corp capable of crushing Apple, Microsoft, and Google!
Why do I still suffer from this syndrome? Repeat after me: “My idea sucks, and no one cares…
Contents of a DVD →
Contents of a DVD
Graph by: patmathis via Graph Jam Builder
Developers do not understand big Oh →
Computer scientist should really start paying more attention to their algorithm professors at university. After reading this post in the gnome rss I found it ridiculous/amazing that a developer…
April 2010
40 posts
Using C# with Desktopcouch == desktopcouchsharp →
As I have mentioned several times, during my everyday job I deal with C# and although I every now and then I complain about it, I consider the language to be quite good overall. One of the things…