I just saw a very funny video entitled Fear of Girls. It’s the ‘Mockumentary’ (Mock Documentary) of a pair of truly geeky… er, geeks. The most funny (or sad) part about it, is that I understood most of the terms (LARP, Brujah clans, Druids, etc). I guess I also passed thru that phase sometime. Thankfully, […]
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Monthly Archives: February 2006
Mac Pr0n
For all of you who are eager to look at the new Intel-based Apple laptops (The McBook Happy Deal), I have good news. Someone just bought one and posted a lot of pictures showing the unboxing process (and a couple comparing the new MBP with the ‘old’ PowerBook). I’ll probably wait for Revision 2 to […]
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You could win a PSP just by using J2EE
In case you haven’t found out by now, Sun is having a contest where you can Play with J2EE 1.4 SDK and Win a Sony PSP. I think this is a very cool way to promote J2EE 1.4, too bad I don’t qualify because I’m not in one of the countries where the contest is […]
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Blog from your firefox browser
I just found out a very nifty extension for firefox that lets you create new posts for your favorite blog software (pebble included, thru the blogger or the metablog API). Performancing For Firefox (PFF) is the extension, and it looks very nice, and hopefully behaves nice too. (This post was created using PFF) Technorati Tags: […]
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Personal finance software in Java
For those of you that like to keep a record of your personal finances, but don’t want to pay for an application like Quicken or Microsoft Money, there are a couple of solutions available in the OSS realm, most notably gnucash. But, if you want something that can run in various operating systems (win, mac, […]
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And the winner (for best geek present) is…
I had a lot of interesting posts that I wanted to do, but something got in the way (besides lots of work, as usual). As you may be aware (from a previous post), my birthday was last saturday, and after a lot of consideration (i.e. getting the approval from my wife), I managed to buy […]
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