Have some fun
25/12/2004 20:29 | Categories: Fun | 0 Comments
and throw some paperballs into the bin
It's a bit tricky to get the hang of the moves of the arm but once you know how it works, it's great!!
Sports
25/12/2004 20:29 | Categories: News, Formula-1 | 0 Comments
The Olympics are over. In the end they didn't fare so badly for Spain: 19 medals (but only 3 golds) and left a some very interesting moments: Kenteris' and Thanou's incident (car "accident" included), Nemov's being cheated a gold medal by some inept judges, the Dream Team's demise, or Lima's being annoyed by some guy dressed in Greek traditional clothes in the marathon... I don't think these were particularly good games (you've probably already seen my previous rants) but now they're over and the next stop is Beijing 2008
In Formula-1 Schumacher, the best driver in the history of Formula-1, won his 7th world championship the same day that Alonso (for many, Alonso will take Schumi's place when he retires) had to quit prematurely when he was ahead of the race. And in the world of football, the Spanish "la liga" started yesterday with Etoo's, Deco's and Ronaldinho's new Barcelona beating Racing of Santander away 0-2, showing the whole Spain that this year they're here to stay. For real. Hopefully
Linklogs
25/12/2004 20:29 | Categories: Links, Blogging, Fun, Geeky | 0 Comments
I have recently become quite addicted to some pages that work as "linklogs". In other words, they just collect links to interesting pages in the net... These are my favourite linklogs:- Fark: My favourite one Lots of links every day classified in categories such as "Dumbass", "Cool", "Spiffy", "Scary" or even "Boobies" (gues what goes into the "Boobies" section? )
- Blogdex: This one is supposed to track the most popular links in the blogosphere... Sometimes there's nothing worth checking out in it.
- del.icio.usThe tagline of this linklog is "collaborative bookmars" and apparently anybody can submit links to them. Interesting.
- Diveintomark.org blinks: Mark Pilgrim's collection of interesting links. Mostly geek-related and not updated very often... But worth checking nonetheless.
- BoingBoing: Also lots of stuff here, though every link usually comes with an article talking about it that of course you can always ignore
How to make your OSX run faster
25/12/2004 20:29 | Categories: Geeky, Apple | 4 Comments
Get enough RAM
Yes, that's 1.25Gb of RAM in my precioussss PowerBook G4
Sky in the Finnish evening
25/12/2004 20:29 | Categories: General, Moblogged | 3 Comments
The sky yesterday had some nice colours and of course I was there with my nokia camera-phone to capture the moment
Skype: P2P telephony
25/12/2004 20:29 | Categories: General | 2 Comments
I've recently used Skype as a way to get in touch with friends instead of using older methods such as MSN, and I have to say that it's amazing. The whole thing works based on a P2P (peer-to-peer) technology similar to the one used in popular filesharing P2P apps such as Kazaa or eDonkey but instead of sending music files or the latest w4r3z, we are sending voice.
I have to say that the quality is amazingly good, even better than a traditional phone. However, due to the unreliability of the IP network sometimes the sound will be totally screwed (garbled sound, cuts and silences in the middle of a conversation, etc) But when it works well (around 85% of the time) it does work well! If you would like to save some money when communicating with your friends, give it a try There are clients for Windows, Linux and OSX even though the Windows client is the most advanced and supports things like group conversations. The Linux and OSX clients are still under development and can be considered beta quality but work quite well nevertheles... Finally, you can also make calls to normal fixed phones and mobile phones via Skype by paying a small fee per minute, something they call SkypeOut credit. I don't think that 1.7 eurocents/minute is not so much compared with normal telephony rates...