More on the Mac mini

12/01/2005 06:26 | Categories: News, Apple | 0 Comments 

My sister was looking for a new computer... If it depends on me, they've got new computer

Look at this beauty:



What else? Well: silent, measuring only 16.5 cm x 16.5 cm x 5.08 cm, this must be the smallest desktop computer ever. Just compare Not to mention that it runs the most user friendly desktop OS out there (and this is not just my subjective opinion!)

Lots of positive comments already in Slashdot and OSNews (and few trolls too)

Python for Series60

11/01/2005 02:56 | Categories: News, Blogging | 0 Comments 

Nokia finally made the Python runtime for Series60 available near the end of last year. Python in Series60 might be the answer for those of us who would enjoy a relatively easy way to develop tools for our Nokia/Series60/Symbian phones without getting frustrated at the limitations of J2ME or running away from SymbianOS and C++.

You can get the runtime here, documentation is included or it can also be found here. There is an official Series60 Python forum in the Nokia developers forums, and there are also some sites and blog posts out there with lots of interesting info such as this one, this one, even a Python Series60 wiki, or this blog from one of the Nokia guys who ported Python.

The good thing is that all you need is a text editor, the API docs as reference and when you're ready, just transfer the source to your phone via Bluetooth. It's just great I always wanted to develop something for my Nokia phone so I might as well take a break from PHP and pLog soon...

CES Las Vegas coverage @ Engadget

10/01/2005 02:07 | Categories: News, Geeky | 0 Comments 

For any technology and gadget afficionado, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is always interesting... Engadget is providing coverage about everything gadget

Videos from the tsunami hitting different places in Asia

30/12/2004 20:37 | Categories: News | 0 Comments 

Really scary...

Pics from the tsunami when it hit Phuket

28/12/2004 22:14 | Categories: News | 0 Comments 

Here.

Confirmed: it was Al-Qaeda

25/12/2004 21:29 | Categories: News | 0 Comments 

In a video dropped in a bin in Madrid, Al-Qaeda claimed being reponsible of the deadly blasts that killed over 200 and left 1400 wounded in Madrid last Thursday. And they say there will be more.
This video came in a moment where the stubborness of the government made them keep saying that ETA was the whole responsible of the blasts, despite things like the letter sent to an London-based arabic newspaper (full text of the letter) or the differences in the modus operandi of the attacks when compared to ETA operations. The Spanish government wanted (and needed!) make people believe that ETA was behind them. They had based part of their political campaing (today Sunday 14th of March is presidential elections day) on the fact that a united country was needed if we were to end once and for all with the deadly threat that ETA has meant to Spain for the last 30 years. The problem was that they kept hiding facts from people and offering misleading information to the media (most of them are either controlled by the government or were related to it in one way or another) (Babelfish translation of a very good editorial about this / original version) In an unprecedented move, the anti-terrorist group of the Spanish police decided to act and captured 3 suspects of arabic origin and 2 more subjects who are related to the bloody bombings. The anti-terrorist police had claimed since the very beginning that it was very unclear that ETA was involved, if not at all but the government ignored them. Yesterday, after the captures and the surfacing of the tape, the government had no other option but to admit that Al-Qaeda had something to do with it.
The Spanish population is not happy with the way in which the government has dealt with the issue. Not to mention that Mr. Aznar put his political interests before the interests of his own country by hiding the truth. In the meantime, some enraged citizens decided to spontaneously gather in front of the main offices of the Partido Popular. Despite the pacific nature of the gathering, the government considered necessary to send the riot police in Madrid (pictures of the gathering in Madrid) and in Barcelona. In Barcelona, over 7000 people gathered there, even blocking the cars driving through one of the biggest streets in the city.
Mr. Rajoy, the hand-picked successor of Mr. Aznar, is suffering hallucinations and demanded that the PSOE (the left-wing party and biggest rival of PP in Spain) stops encouraging people to go to this gatherings and qualified them as proofs of "intolerance" (Babelfish version). But Mr. Rajoy, don't you see that the country is fed up with your lies? Do you think people have no brain of their own and need a political party to tell them what to do?
I sure hope that people make them pay for what they've done so far today in the elections...