Tuesday, February 5, 2008
No Debian content here. Just like last year I decided to watch one of the largest sport events in the USA – the final game of the National Football League Super Bowl XLII (roman numerals are different for the sake of it ). I came to like the Japanese take on American football, so I [...]
Thursday, January 31, 2008
A person that I deeply respect and who is very know in Latvian IT society recently said that he often uses a quote of mine in his presentations. I completely forgot that I ever said that, but it sounds very much like what I would say, so I wanted to write it down so that [...]
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
AJ, if some blogs would support comments, I would leave my opinion there and not add noise to the planet. 1) Censorship does not stop being censorship just because the people doing the censoring don’t have the absolute power to censor the information everywhere and only block the information or opinion from the channels they [...]
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Bernhard It is possible that you are not alone but nether are defenders of freedom if information production and distribution and in particular of freedom of speech. Trying to restrict what words people can or can not use (by labeling them sexist, racist or obscene) is the bread and butter of modern day media censorship. [...]
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 i [...]
Finally I took my time and uploaded all my good Debconf7 photos to Flickr, 193 photos in total. Most interestingly I have created a much improved version of the group photo. Please do note that these photos are under Creative Commons Attribution licence, so please do give credit where it is due. And I also [...]
Tokkee and I are doing the mugshots this year and we need your cooperation. Mugshots are a great way for people to link the name to a face and remember that link even after several years. Liw did this as his project last year and it was great success – many people have now a [...]
For the last couple weeks I have been concentrating on things related to my studies and on some events related to it. I posted pictures from these events on my Flickr photostream: a colleague from the institute finished his PhD and we had a goodbye dinner, my supervisor invited me to his son’s first birthday [...]
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Catching up on blogs, emails and Debian mailing lists I see that nothing really important has happened while I was off-line: the dunc-tank caboodle escalated and died down when the majority voted that it was not worth the commotion, some people got upset at some other people and decided stop working on Debian because of [...]
Sunday, September 10, 2006
The I18N meeting in Extremadura is almost over – tomorrow everyone is leaving to the airport at different times. So, enjoy the group photo of the meeting. And if you click the photo, that will bring you to a Frickr photoset that contains all the other good photos that I took at this meeting. Enjoy!
