UK ISPs erect “Great Firewall of Britain” to censor Wikipedia I used to use Eclipse in UK and recommended it to others, but they are now involved in this censorship scandal. Unacceptable.
On Wednesday I had a viva for my Master by Research thesis on “Text classification by quality”. After a 15 minute presentation and almost two hours of questions from two of my examiners, I was told that I will receive my Masters degree (after minor corrections to the thesis). It is a great relief and [...]
My blog server has been down ever since I left off to Edinburgh for the 7th Debian conference. Since then I have been busy taking photos of everything and everyone here AND I am not alone in that. Enjoy!
Debconf is coming. And I fully agree with Amaya regarding the much needed battery recharge that brings to people (and me in particular. And to the contrary to the information two posts ago, thanks to getting an unexpected side income from the nice folks of FFII, I did manage to buy myself a Canon 400D [...]
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
In the last day of Lastguru’s visit, I convinced him to go to The Blue Man group performance in the New London Theatre. The performance was just great – a combination of rhythmic music, dramatic light and a hilarious comedy show. Just wonderful! There was a lot of classic Blue Man moments – weird looks, [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
All the time since the Debian I18N conference in Extremadura I was moving around, staying in temporary places having temporary accesses to restricted Internet connections. Finally yesterday I got everything back – a permanent place to stay and a good permanent and unrestricted Internet connection there. Now I just need to compensate for the productivity [...]
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Ryanair finally sued the UK government for 3 million pounds for the air traffic disruptions, just like I called it! Now they only need to team up with British Airways (who demand their money from goverment’s BAA) and all the other affected airlines, so that the court doesn’t just dismiss it right away. Also it [...]
I previously mentioned that my brand new Dell Inspiron XPS m1710 notebook broke down just a few weeks after I got it. It took from Wednesday to Friday to arrange for pick-up n the notebook. The DHL guy came to my house on Monday morning and picked my laptop up. He said that the official [...]
Apparently the government agencies in UK that are managing the current security craze have little to no idea how much their super-paranoid security policies acctualy cost. It appears that direct losses from one day of air traffic chaos costs airlines 175 million pounds. Everyone who has their flight delayed for more then an hour for [...]
