Exploring the World One Instant at a Time http://gawd.at/joomla Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:49:18 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://gawd.at/joomla/images/M_images/mambo_rss.png http://gawd.at/joomla Exploring the World One Instant at a Time http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/815/75/ Sunday morning in San Diego. The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, the neighbors are getting annoyed at the 217th time they have to listen to Lily Allen sing The Fear. I woke up a few hours ago, dreaming... Cycling - Tours Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:18:47 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/806/173/ No car and snowboarder? What do you do? Take your bike up to Tahoe (hopefully it's motorized) with your gear and your snowboard strapped on your back? Comes in handy when going downhill, you can use the board as your... Snow - Snow Updates Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:50:52 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/803/46/ There is no topic in elementary physics as odd as quantum mechanics. Once you learn the formalism, it is easy to apply (although the mathematics required can be daunting). The experimenters say, on the other hand, that the results you... Reviews - Books Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:58:04 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/785/46/ Frida and I go way back, to ancient times where she wasn't this popular icon of feminism and empowerment she's become ever after the movie with Salma Hayek. I had seen a panel of hers, a monstruous affair with a... Reviews - Events Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:05:12 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/802/ As a good California resident, it's no surprise I cast my lot (figuratively) with Barack Obama, the clear favorite of the Golden State. Indeed, after the shortest election night I can remember, we heard the concession speech just after 8p... Blog - Happened to me... Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:39:46 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/787/138/ Well, if this is not a telling example of how things are progressing in the world of open source... I recently bought a heart rate monitor, since I realized there was something wrong with the calories burnt displayed on exercise... Computers - Howto Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:51:18 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/795/ Amazing what the web will do! I have been a fan of Intrade for years, using it first to gain a better idea of how the 2004 Presidential election would shape up, and then following the 2006 and now the... Blog - Web Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:07:14 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/789/ I am reading Christopher Moore's Lamb, an exciting and amusing book, and the best possible introduction to a new author. I am not very far into it, having barely read to the point where Joshua is back from Kabul, but... Blog - Research Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:47:36 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/786/138/ The more I am using software for the KDE system, the more I like it. I mean that literally: very powerful applications that can do pretty much everything you would need from them, but they are inscrutable and unless you... Computers - Howto Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:06:26 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/784/138/ I have always been fascinated by programming languages, and scripting languages have always had a particular place in my heart. After all, they allow you to develop without much encumbrance, starting from nothing to program in no time. There are... Computers - Comparisons Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:59:30 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/737/ So, after we looked at how , here is my look at how I see things develop. As I mentioned in the article above, working for Bluepulse made me think about SNW a lot, and I decided the starting point... Blog - Web Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:58:28 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/731/46/ It's been a while that I wanted to read the Bush trilogy that Bob Woodward put together. In three volumes, the celebrated co-reporter of the Watergate affair describes the inner workings of the Bush administration with the kind of depth... Reviews - Books Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:45:17 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/727/ It's amazing to sit here, see the economy tumble down at the pace it's going, and see the connection to the mortgage crisis. My friends and my family back in Europe ask about it, want to know how it happened,... Blog - Web Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:19:14 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/726/ Well, usually a move would not warrant yet another blog post - I guess everybody goes through them, and many of us have gotten used to the whole process. I wanted to highlight, though, the movers I used this and... Blog - Happened to me... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:37:40 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/721/ Thanks to the virtually infinite generosity of my friends Paul and Justin, I got to hang out at their place in Whistler this year for the second time. What was different this time? Well, I knew the mountain already, and... Blog - Happened to me... Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:37:56 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/720/138/ Ok, that's not new news, since it's been done last year. Still, this site didn't record the change to the work that happened on the password store component on a purely organizational level, so here's my chance to catch up: Password... Computers - Password Store Component Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:47:02 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/655/46/ There is always something magical about South-American writers. They seem not to have forgotten how to write a novel - that it takes a story, then some chuzpa telling it, and a pinch of mystique in the presentation. All those... Reviews - Books Thu, 31 May 2007 16:26:41 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/640/74/ My friends Stephen and James decided they would go to the AIDS LifeCycle ride this year again, and are getting all their friends to help out, or join. After a little bit of prodding, and after a very positive weather forecast, I finally... Cycling - Cycling General Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:17:18 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/627/138/ I decided I need to do something useful with my spare time, and instead of continuing with useless trial projects, I will create a component that is of general use: a note taking tool that allows for strong encryption, defines... Computers - Password Store Component Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:45:18 +0100 http://gawd.at/joomla/index.php/content/view/619/173/ If Heavenly thinks it's heavenly, it really should never visit Whistler. I stayed all of one week, with the best snow I could imagine, the best mountain(s), the best lifts, the best lodges, and frankly the best people. Let's start with... Snow - Snow Updates Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:08:20 +0100