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Monthly Archives: June 2005

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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Today I cook for the FFII apartment and nobody can stop me I am trying out a variation of the spagetti with a meat/potato sauce, so nothing can go wrong there. Or so you thought …

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June 30

Thursday, June 30, 2005

A slow start of a slow day – I broke my 5 am rule . I only woke up at 9:30. The breakfast hall had a lot of Russian tourists – you cann’t avoid them anywhere .Nothing FFIIish to do today – all Latvian MEPs are gone. For that reason I am in the FFII [...]

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June 29

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

I woke up at 5.00 local time without any alarm clocks! That is one hell of an accomplishment. Today I planned to visit (without prior notice) all Latvian MEPs. I had a small setback when I found out that most of them have the whole day busy at different group meeting and then all of [...]

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June 28

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

I arrived to Brussels, slept two hours on the plane. When to the FFII apartment to check the mail and forgot to change the clothes in the hotel. That’s why I had to go meet Latvian MEPs in jeans and shirt instead of the nice suit I had bought earlier.First I met with the assistant [...]

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Sleep disbalance

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

At this moment I’ve not slept for 46 hours. In two hours I will go to the airport to catch a plane to Brussels. In ten hours I will meet with three members of European Parlament that are very influential back in Latvia. My task will be to get them to spend a lot of [...]

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YAHOO!!!^W^WGOOGLE!!!

Saturday, June 25, 2005

My proposal for the Google Summer of Code was accepted. In this summer I’ll be writing http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/SimpleBackupSolution I am so hyped!

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Early riser (try 2)

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Okay – today I managed to wake up at 5. This is the second time I managed to do that. I’ve already done most of the queued work for today and I had a real breakfast – I like it.

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The Economic Majority Against Software Patents

Saturday, June 25, 2005

The Economic Majority Against Software Patents You only need a few minutes to submit a testimony against software patents – anyone can do that.

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PlayStation 3

Thursday, June 23, 2005

System Info: Supercomputer #201 Today I found out, what is the hype about Sony PlayStation 3 all about. PS 3 = 2 TFlops = 602 * Intel Pentium 4 Xeon 2800 MHz (5.6 GFlops) And it will come with Linux …..

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Software patent situation

Thursday, June 23, 2005

For those that do not know yet, I am closely involved with FFII in fighting against software patents in EU. Yesterday there was a vote in the JURI committee of the European Parliament. Out of 10 critical amendments – 5 were accepted, so it is not a complete failure as some media portray it to [...]

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