21 May 2008. Dawn in Austria. A lot of policemen enter in 23 different premises with guns, battering down doors, harassing the people inside. They take 10 people under arrest. Dangerous terrorists? War criminals? Drug dealers? Animal activists. There haven’t been any concrete charges yet_, so they are basically prisoners of conscienceconscience. Some of them [...]
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CHDK – Canon Hacker’s Development Kit
Some days ago, Arve posted a very interesting link in Twitter: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera. It was about something called CHDK (Canon Hacker’s Development Kit), which is a non-official firmware enhancement for many Canon cameras. It sounds pretty scary, but actually it’s really safe and easy to use: you just copy some files [...]
NIN: The Slip
Nine Inch Nails released their new album, The Slip, under a Creative Commons license. You are actually encouraged to “remix it share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc.”. After reading that, I couldn’t resist giving away my e-mail address to download it. [...]
I don’t “git” it
I admit I don’t get it. Tons of people are using Git these days, and most of them seem incredibly happy with it. I don’t really have any relevant experience with it (just used a couple of days), but I didn’t like it that much. Feels weird, clunky and complicated (especially, the interface is horrid, [...]
Wiki- and Uncyclopedia on Scientology
So, the other day I was reading about Scientology, and I stumble upon the Space opera in Scientology scripture. Apart from the odd article title, I couldn’t help but noticing the picture on the right. It has the following footer: “Hubbard said that the galactic ruler Xenu transported his victims to Earth in interstellar space [...]
Awesome Star Wars figures
I just saw in Adastra (Spanish only) some really cool Star Wars figures built by some very talented guy: 1942 Star Wars figures Steampunk Star Wars figures His own vision of Star Wars figures I’m not a huge fan of Star Wars myself, but those figures are just awesome, I had to share :-)
Adventures in the Internet
It’s kind of funny. I created a twitter account many months ago. I never really used it, because I guess I didn’t see the point or something. During all that time, several people started “following” me (in twitter jargon), even if I had no content at all, nor plans to add any. Just today and [...]
Mobile phones
I have always hated mobile phones. I always had problems with them (coverage, battery), I always found them ridiculously counterintuitive, expensive, impractical… But then I moved to Norway (from Spain), and, partly because I wanted to be able to use OperaMini, I decided to buy a new phone. I didn’t buy anything fancy at all, [...]
One Year!
Today I have been one year working in Oslo! Yay! So far the experience has been quite good, so I’m staying here for some more time still. I’ve also slowly becoming kind of active again in Debian (especially helping dhelp), although I admit not being very active in any other software project (Haberdasher feels kind [...]
DRM? No thanks!
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