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Catching up with unread blogs – Nat Frie…

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Catching up with unread blogs – Nat Friedmans blog has two very interesting entries: one huge entry about parties (with lots of photos) and another about parkour featuring a bunch of Latvian-Russian guys from the second larges city of Latvia – Daugavpils, which is ~50 kilometres away from the place of my birth. The video [...]

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Free Christmas in Riga, Latvia.

Sunday, December 11, 2005

It looks like the Linux centre of the Latvian university in partnership with Latvian Open Source Association is going to throw a Free Code Christmas on 19th of December. Current idea is to make a mix of a social and technical event. The plan calls for two rooms – in one room a series of [...]

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A couple shots from Tokyo girls concert …

Thursday, December 8, 2005

A couple shots from Tokyo girls concert from the closing ceremony of the Animefest3. This ends my photostream from the event, now I’ll have to shoot something new to show you. BTW: there are also some photos that I did upload to Flickr, but didn’t link to the blog – you can go to my [...]

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Folding@Stage

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Flashback to childhood A contest at Animefest – we all are trying to remember how paper boats were made. Here I have a moment of “enlightenment” In other news – today I was “performing” in an event at Latvian University – telling a bunch of people what is console, how and why can work and [...]

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Another bug has pissed me enough to star…

Monday, December 5, 2005

Another bug has pissed me enough to start debugging. This time it is Totem-xine crashing on startup in Ubuntu dapper. The first thing is that you cann’t rebuild totem from sources multiple time after ubuntu patches – ubuntu uses dpatch to patch something in automake files and after the build has been run, the unpatch [...]

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After reading the Final Debconf5 report …

Saturday, December 3, 2005

After reading the Final Debconf5 report I suddenly saw how this report shows all of us how much blood, sweat, tears and ruined stomachs has really been put into organising the best Debconf ever (so far at least). A lot of Debian Developers were present at Debconf5, even more Debian developers, Debian users and other [...]

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Here is my friend lastguru – the second …

Friday, December 2, 2005

Here is my friend lastguru – the second most active photographer on the AnimeFest3. He is trying to get a shot of the audience, but while he is doing that, I got a shot of him Yesterday I discovered a great surge in popularity of SBackup – just on SourceForge around 700 people downloaded it [...]

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