Thursday, December 27, 2007
My girlfriend is annoyed with USA timekeeping. More particularly with the way Sunday is the first day of the week in the Gnome calendar applet that shows up when you click on the time applet. After some searching I am unable to find how to change that short of changing the source code.
Help me, lazyweb!
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
I have now gotten into baking bread at home and I like the result greatly.
The inspiration came from an anime Yakitate!! Japan! – a very funny anime about bread bakers with lots of parody on other anime and lots of over-the-top reactions to bread. It also has a lot of tips on baking your own [...]
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
I see that Erich is also trying to do something with AI classification of web pages. It would be interesting to find out what algorithms he is using and what the validation testing results are – I just did my Masters in a similar direction. But alas, his blog has no comments
The thing [...]
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Last night we celebrated Christmas with some friends by doing a lot of cooking – baking mostly. In the end we had some regular sweetbread dough and some gingerbread dough left over. On a whim I suggested to put them together – we rolled out both doughs very thin (3-4 mm), put them on top [...]
Thursday, December 13, 2007
On Monday I was at a Vanessa Mae concert in arena “Riga” in Riga, Latvia.
The concert was almost an hour late due to flight delay. It would have been fine if the organisers would let us into the hall or at least informed the several thousand people about the delay and its reason and not [...]
Thursday, December 13, 2007
In reply to: Daniel
In Russia it is common to create pronounceable words from abbreviates and use those ‘crippled’ names instead in the spoken language, so “BMW” (the car brand) is not “Bee eM doubleU”, but a much more pronounceable “Beemer” or even “Boomer”.
Brought to you by “The more you know” (picture a rainbow).
Everyone knows that Webmin is nasty – it does things in wrong way on a pure and nice Debian (and Ubuntu) systems and for some reason is not included in Debian (post-sarge) or Ubuntu. That does not inspire confidence in a root-running web based software to say the least.
I have a need to have a [...]
