Garden

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My children

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Testing Scribefire with Kelly Hu

This is a test of Scribefire for Google Chrome.
I'm actually using it on Chromium under Arch Linux.
Also, testing the image insert feature, here Kelly Hu

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Great Sunday

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This was a nice family Sunday, spent it at the zoo with the kids. They really enjoy it, how great is to be a kid and given that there is no time machine the only option adults have to enjoy life as kids is through our children joy of the life :).

Be sure to see the world in the way they do, you'll have a better life.

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My neighbor decided to party all night, I just can't sleep :(. And not being that enough there was a car crash in...

My neighbor decided to party all night, I just can't sleep :(. And not being that enough there was a car crash in front of my house. And now the police is here too :).
A groom and bride were involved in the car crash. Bad way to start the honey moon.

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Thank you for the love mama

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Using twitter iPhone to upload photos

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Anarchy != Chaos: SSH, X11, and You

I discovered this post and the blog itself with it, because it sent me a lot of traffic.

But I now want to share with my readers this article. A nice review of what open-ssh can do for you.

Anarchy != Chaos: SSH, X11, and You

Sunny day

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Peaceful road

Check out this autumn's peaceful road, I would love to be there.

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Great picture.

I love the colors on this picture.

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Using Tumblr and dlvr.it to curate content

Curated content

Now a days, when more and more content appear out there, it is more and more difficult to follow the important and interesting content that appears on the internet every day.

A lot of blogs appear and disappear in a daily basis, and sites like tuxmachines in the case of Linux are great to find good content.

But, can you create your own curated site? The answer is yes, and here is how to do it.

Tumblr

First thing you need is a place to publish your curated content, so create a tumblr page for this goal, it is easy to do it, and will not be covered here.

dlvr.it

dlvr.it is a site that let’s you grab one or more RSS feeds and then publish its content to places like Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, LinkedIn and others, one of those others is Tumblr, so you can grab some RSS or Atom Feeds and send its contents to a Tumblr site, this way Tumblr users may get the latest news or posts in the niche they are interested in.

A good thing about dlvr.it is that it lets you filter the content, so if you add a site like mashable, you do not need to share all the posts that appear there, you may filter only the post that talks about google, if that is what you want.

Caveat reader

One thing you should consider is the copy rights of the content you are republishing, be sure to add a link back, and of course do not publish the full content, just Title, some excerpt if possible and a link to the full article in its original site.

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My Slackware KDE Desktop

My newly installed Slackware running KDE, with calendar, clock, gmail
and news widgets.

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Nokia employees protest against Microsoft's Windows mobile adoption by Nokia

Up to 1,000 Nokia employees in Finland walked out on the job yesterday, following the news that Nokia’s future would be based on integrating its products with Microsoft services and abandoning most of its own technology. The walkouts either simply downed tools and walked away or took a day’s worth of “flex time.”

I thinkg that Nokia was not able to continue with Symbian, just yesterday I have switched my E72 for an Xperia mini pro. Yes the E72 was easier to use, easier to type on it, better to make calls, etc. but having such a great hardware and not all the software I can find for my iPod or an Android phone decided me to switch.

Now, I thing Windows is not the best option, I just hope they might do the same that Sony Ericsson is doing, have some models with Windows and others with Android.

That way the user may choose the one that best fits his needs.

One way to choose if you are looking for a corporate phone is:

• If you have Exchange in your office, you may be better with a Windows phone
• If your office is using Google Apps, then you will be better with an Android phone

Of course that is just a simple way to choose but is a start, then you may think in other things.

In the meantime:

Many of the protesters work on the Symbian software so their jobs will be in jeopardy as Nokia begins to implement Windows Phone 7 on its handsets. Their future is not at all clear after today’s news-broad strokes have been painted but much of the logistics have yet to be revealed. Nokia will not work exclusively with the Windows Phone 7 operating system (and they will be customizing it) so jobs will be preserved but Symbian will no longer play the prominent role it once did at the company so job loss is inevitable.

Nokia’s employees are afraid about loosing their jobs.

I’ve read somewhere, that if Nokia might turn to Android, they will not be able to compete agains the asian manufactures, like Samsung or HTC, but to me one of the best pieces of hardware I’ve ever used is the E71 and E72, easy to use, great termination, incredible battery duration (something Samsung, HTC or even Apple can’t say).

So I would have loved to have an E72 powered by a customized version of Android.

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Jogging, lifting weights and low carbing

I've been for two or three weeks, following a low carb diet jogging 3 days a week and lifting weighs the other 3 days of the week, resting one day. I'm loosing a lot of body fat and hopefully will keep my muscle mass, let's see what results I get in three more weeks.
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Vim search and replace how to

search and replace in vi and vim

Vi / Vim is a very powerful text editor, and as any good text editor it has some great search and replace tools.

You may find more about it reading vim text and replace, tips and tricks

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Upgrade Debian from Lenny (5.0 or 5.0.7) to Squeeze (6.0)

Now that we have a date, which is February 5th or 6th. It is time to be prepared to upgrade our Debian Lenny PCs to Debian Squeeze.

Do not forget to backup before the upgrade, and have a plan in case something may go wrong. I’ve never had a problem with and upgrade like this, but it is always better to be prepared.

You will find what you need to Upgrade Debian 5.0 Lenny to Debian 6.0 Squeeze

“How to upgrade Debian”

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Debian updated my desktop

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Now, this is good service -Blekko.com-

Yesterday, while trying to use http://blekko.com

From Wikipedia:

>blekko is a web search engine that aims at providing better search results than those offered by Google Search by offering results culled from a set of 3 billion trusted websites and excluding material from such sites as content farms. The site, launched to the public on November 1, 2010, uses slashtags to provide results for common searches.

I've found a nice 404 error page, that I posted here:
http://ggarron.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/blekko-page-not-found-404/

Well, that blog is almost not visited at all, but guess what.

Greg, from blekko, visited it and leave a comment:

>Sorry about that, we had some downtime last night and are still having some isolated performance problems today.

So, to me, that is good service, if these guys continue that way,
then, they may be a good Google contender.
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Blekko page not found 404

Really a nice "page not found" image and page.

This was found at http://blekko.com the new Google contender.

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A calm fresh day after, too many hot days

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This is in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. An avenue near my house, taken with an iPod touch, while walking to my gym.

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Debian Squeeze Release Candidate 1 ready to download

This is good news!

Debian Squeeze first release candidate is ready to download.

Here the press release:

This release candidate adds support for the Lao and Sinhala languages. The keyboard support for Finnish has been fixed. In total 70 languages are activated in the installer for Squeeze and for at least 57 of these the whole installation process is translated.

The Linux kernel used by the installer has been updated to the latest version of 2.6.32 available in Squeeze. The handling of non-free firmware has had some usability issues fixed.

This release candidate adds support for three extra computer systems: YDL PowerStation (PowerPC), QNAP TS-119P+ and TS-219P+ (ARM). This release candidate has also seen several improvements on PowerPC machines, including fan control improvements, IDE support for Efika 5200B, network support for IBM Power 6 and later System P boards and use of unique filesystem identifiers and labels for more reliable booting.

Major improvements of the Squeeze installer over the Debian 5.0 Lenny installer include the automatic installation of recommended packages, a rewrite of the localechooser component (which language, timezone and mirror settings are based on), btrfs and ext4 file system support (while ext3 remains the default file system), and easier usage of partitions for software RAID, LVM and crypto setups. Besides supporting more hardware, the Debian Installer can now also be used to install a system based upon the FreeBSD kernel, which also supports the ZFS file system.

Read it in full here: http://debian.org/News/2011/20110113

You can download it from here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Enjoy it:

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Joke

A guy go into a bar and find 4 guys and a dog playing poker.
Surprised he asks: Can this dog really play poker?.
Yes, -they said.
Amazing!! He said.
No way, every time he has a good hand, start moving its tail, and we all notice.
:)
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Drupal 7 new capabilities video review

I've been using drupal since drupal 5, and it great all the things you can do with it.

Usually you never take advantange of all its capabilities, because you just do not need them all, but they are there, just in case.

I've not used Wordpress, so I can not compare, but I highly recomend you Drupal for any website project you may have.

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