For the last two weeks I have walked many miles down the roads of usability and work flows. It started as a desperate move from Gmail to a suite of Open Source solutions. Then a general review of my routine ...
Gmail was fun. It was a great way to show the power of Ajax. It made a good application available from all places, all browsers, all platforms. But when you've tried all of its shiny features and seen ...
This wiki is based on TWiki. It's not very fast, but has an overwhelming wealth of useful functionality and a vibrant community. The blog is based on BlogAddon plug in, which lets you treat the posts almost ...
A few days ago I finally found some time to set up a proper dedicated FreeBSD PC router for my home network and started thinking about IPv6. Well, today I got a tunnel and a subnet from SixXS, and this ...
Legend heka.cenkes.org is a server saiph.cenkes.org is a client, connects to stream with mpd(8) nekkar.cenkes.org is a client, connects to mtu with ppp(8) all machines run FreeBSD with ...
The short version: ffmpeg i video.flv vcodec copy acodec copy video.avi The story A few weeks ago I got interested in Google TechTalks, UC Berkeley webcasts and a number of other stuff published via ...
Finally, I've imported my old TiddlyWiki page into this TWiki installation. The process involved two steps: Converting topic names to camel notation (mainly for file names) Converting datetime ...
For me the hardest part about overcoming my shortcomings, be it bad habits or something more serious, is recognizing one as such and determining if overcoming it is worth it at all. Actually, I don't think ...
Several people (including me) expressed some interest as to what exactly I am doing these days. My standard answer is "wasting my life", which is pretty much close to the real truth. The problem is my ...
Open Life is a topic I want to spend some of my time on and a state of being I would like to spend much of my life in. What if you made your life completely and utterly open to everyone? Not only high ...
Here's the hard question: Can deep, selfless love be an excuse for hurting people? When thinking rationally, sometimes it's obvious we should deny a request when it's harmful for someone in the long run ...
It feels like the last week has just disappeared out of my life. There's a one word explanation for that Nethack. Once I used to be a passionate gamer. I would spend night after night solving quests ...
Ellipse. My belly is starting to look like one. Come to think of it, many parts of my body are. My face, on the contrary, is giving up its natural form for something more round. I remember in "Over the ...
A few days ago I got my military ID the thing they give you after you've served or, as in my case, after you've jumped through the hoops in order not to serve. I feel pretty ugly about it all. In all ...
Yes and no. I've been trying to view some of my pages from a distance and concluded that the overabundance of clergyman's vocabulary required a shy explanation, both to myself and to the poor victims who ...
As it happens, divine protection can play tricks on you. Naturally, you can't play tricks on it in return, but what you can do is require less statistically impossible miracles by not asking for trouble ...
I have forborne from writing in this blog, preferring less visible corners, like MyParagraphs and my off line paper notebook for lack of notability in my everyday musings and general shortage of scribbling ...