I was given an Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) of the upcoming novel The Tesla Testament by Eugene Ciurana. The book isn’t due to be published until october of 2006, but I wanted to share my impressions of the book. The novel centers around freelancer Francis Montagnet, who besides doing his regular jobs as software consultant […]
If you’re like me, you’re using gmail for all those mailing lists that you have to be on, even if you don’t actually read most of the mails sent there, and have a label (and a filter) for each of the lists, so the mail skip the inbox and go directly to the label ‘folder’. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
I love food. In general. I can enjoy a good Prime Rib as much as I can enjoy a BigMac (well, maybe not as much, but you get the idea). I try to eat new things whenever I have the chance. Since I was a kid, my parents taught me that there are so many […]
I just finished a 4-day training course entitled Optimizing Oracle SQL, imparted by Karen Morton from Hotsos. I must say I was really impressed with the course, as it gives you a very detailed account of how Oracle works, thus enabling you to analyze what’s going on with your queries and, if needed, rewrite them […]
My birthday is coming in less than one month, so I started thinking, what would be the ideal gift for geek guy like I? (There’s already a special present coming my way, but that will take a little more time). So, without further ado, here’s the list of what I would consider the perfect birthday […]
Some time ago, I dediced to ditch Windows because I got a weird experience with it (unfortunately, I haven’t imported my old postings yet). Basically, I left my laptop on during one night and when I looked at it the next day, the machine had cleanly rebooted after installing a patch from Microsoft. I didn’t […]
