Archive for June, 2007

A new Beryl demo for your pleasure

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Input-enabled zoom is what’s keeping me from moving to Compiz Fusion:

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Cobarde asesinato en el centro de Quito

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Mi primo Mauricio Briz fue asesinado el día de ayer en el centro de Quito, prácticamente al pie del palacio de Carondelet. Esta es una misiva que quiero que lean:

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Auto-repair flaky network connections with netrepaird

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Use Linux? Have a flaky cable modem or DSL hookup? If you do, and you leave your computer unattended, you’ll return to find zillions of network error dialogs. Here’s a quick solution.

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La biología está por ponerse muy interesante

Friday, June 29th, 2007

PZ Myers pronostica (con fundamento) que la química está a pocos años de producir vida artificial en el laboratorio.

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I hate it…

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

…when I say something special to someone, and that one person pretends like *** didn’t get the hint. Yes, you. I’m on to you.

On Lawrence Lessig switching ‘majors’

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Larry,

You’ve been a source of inspiration for tens of thousands of people (or millions… I think I got the order of magnitude wrong by at least two higher steps). I am infinitely grateful for the two deepest reads I had the chance to enjoy: Code and Culture. Brutally sobering.

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Three kinds of poor people

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

The Simple Dollar has fantastic advice for those of you who don’t want to die poor and in pain. Like, for example, this sobering snippet:

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La guerra contra las drogas es una mierda

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

La guerra contra las drogas debe terminar. Hoy.

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¿Proveedores de Internet recomendados?

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

SatNet está haciendo traffic shaping (enlenteciendo) el tráfico de BitTorrent, y por eso ya no puedo bajar archivos rápidamente:

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