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Mea Culpa

Monday, May 15th, 2006

I think it’s time to make my confession, about a sin that everybody gets afraid of even hearing of it…
Yes, I did it, and I have been working for many months in making robots to retrieve informations consisting of links and E-mail addresses from portals and repositories, decoding and flooding, using methods that the […]

500 visitors … A new record!

Friday, May 12th, 2006

While reviewing yesterday’s stats, I found out that I got a little more than 500 visits, never reached it! I know, some might say: “Yeah, too bad, that’s the lowest number I can expect”, but for me, it’s the highest number of visits.
I would not write about it if it were not very different; […]

Just thinking in the rain

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Rain has a strange effect; I don’t know whether people feel the same, but I have just noticet it.
I was walking and it got raining; i had no umbrella, no hat; well, no problem: I was still walking and thinking…
But what attracted my attention is the suddent inspiration that made me figure out about […]

Free Software Feast

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Yesterday took place in Ghazela a great exhibition called “Free Software Feast”. The name sounds like the famous German Oktoberfest, however, no beer here, as says Stallman: “Free Software refers not to price, but to Freedom, so think of Free speech, not free beer!”
The organization was successful and many clubs and association participated, many […]

Journées du Cinéma Européen : Mes impressions

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Pendant deux semaines, j’ai suivi avec intérêt les Journées du Cinéma Européen à Tunis, marquant les événements importants et essayant de ne pas les rater, découvrant un nouveau monde de cinéma non commercial, et visant à diffuser une culture cinématographique.
À la rue Ibn Khaldoun, il y a deux salles de cinéma : ABC et […]

Installed plugins

Monday, May 1st, 2006

I have just added some plugins to my Word Press:

Related posts (so that old posts won’t be lost)
Subscribe to comments (whether you want to be noticed at a new comment)
Keywords (Useful for Technorati tags and meta tags)

I also added statistics and database backup (That’s for me). Again, welcome everybody to my blog!

Malnutrition…

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Received a call this morning from King Panga that made me think a lot:
- King Panga: A customer needs you, when can you get here?
- Me (not willing): Well, the evening.
- King Panga: No, she can’t, it’s urgent.
- Me: Okay, At lunch time.
- King Panga: When exactly?
- Me: When I say “lunch time”, this […]

First contact with Eastern European movies

Monday, April 24th, 2006

As it’s difficult to find cultural non-commercial movies in Tunisia, the European movies days is an occasion to find out more about movies in Eastern Europe: For 1 dinar, you may watch all the day’s high quality movies!
“Tato”, from Poland is a story of a divorced man who is obliged to let his daughter […]

Fixing PHP code

Friday, April 14th, 2006

A         a is an intern whom I am supposed to assist to fix her PHP code. The following case seems obvious; it’s nevertheless tricky.
 
- A         a: I have several checkboxes whose the number depends on the database rows. Once a user submits, checkboxes are displayed again, but the ones already checked must appear checked too.
Initial […]

Laziness

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

lazy (comparative lazier, superlative laziest)

Unwilling to do work or make an effort.
Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.

 
Synonyms
(unwilling to work): bone-idle, idle, indolent, slothful

I’m feeling more lazy than this definition

Call flood

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

Is there any person in Tunisia who has never received annoying calls? My number does not make exception; although it’s hard to memorize, even for myself: it contains all digits that you don’t wish to have in your phone: 1, 9, 5, …
I don’t understand their psychology: at midnight, they compose a number randomly, […]

I am not invincible

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

I sometimes lose in chess, and I’m not ashamed of saying this. I’m not a professional player after all, but yesterday, I was amazed by the way that used my oponent to freeze and take my Queen. No computer could think so futher!

 
The game started with a “Calm” and theorical Spanish opening. I (with […]

Du respect des langues

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

Beaucoup d’amis m’accuse de “francophobie” lorsque j’évite d’écrire en français, soit dans les blogs (y compris le mien), dans les forums de discussion, les listes de diffusion ou dans les chats.
Paradoxalement, ce n’est pas la haine envers la langue française qui me pousse à ne pas l’utiliser, mais c’est par respect envers cette langue […]

Chess is confusing me

Friday, March 31st, 2006

I was playing several chess games (16 exactly), and won them all. Well, I’m not going to talk about won or loss, but about something I always avoid and I don’t want it to be in my character.
Almost all the games were won with sadism, indifference, agressivity and superiority. If I were in my […]

My way of teaching

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Crazy talk on Gtalk
Synopsis
Kaiser (from Paris) has screwed his Fedora box up, I (from Tunis) was helping him to save his data, waiting for Fedora Core 5 release (which occured last monday).
Swobodin: look at your rc.sysinit
Swobodin: there’s a “udev” string
Swobodin: that loads the network interface
Swobodin: see the lines where it’s written “network”
Swobodin: a script to […]


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