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Sin tu latido

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Escuchando el disco “Mano a mano”, que es un concierto en Madrid en 1993, con Luis Eduardo Aute y Silvio Rodríguez.
¡Sensacional! Aquí la letra de “Sin tu latido”, por Luis Eduardo Aute
 
Hay algunos que dicen
que todos los caminos conducen a Roma
y es verdad porque el mío
me lleva cada noche al hueco que te nombra
y […]

Wikimeeting aborted

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Seems like the Wiki meeting won’t take place tomorrow; only Eternal Flame confirmed, /etc/shadow and Kaiser apologized, no answer from the others.
Let’s hope that the project can stand…

Fedora Tunisia Reloaded

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Yesterday I downloaded all drupal modules and several themes to upload them to Fedora Tunisia. Plugging modules was not so easy, I had to hack on each one to fix CSS, XHTML transitional, PHP code, etc. I also changed the default theme and switched to spreadfiredox. Looks cool, but modifying the code took me […]

Dixit Vergilius

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Hic tibi ne qua morae fuerint dispendia tanti,
quamuis increpitent socii et ui cursus in altum
uela uocet, possisque sinus implere secundos,
quin adeas uatem precibusque oracula poscas
ipsa canat uocemque uolens atque ora resoluat.
illa tibi Italiae populos uenturaque bella
et quo quemque modo fugiasque ferasque laborem
expediet, cursusque dabit uenerata secundos.
haec sunt quae nostra liceat te uoce moneri.
 
Translation
Think it […]

Caricatures (again!)

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Caricature is an art, it requires both a draw skill and a creativity to choose the idea. The best caricaturist for me is the Argentinian Quino, the author of the famous Mafalda. He used to (I don’t know whether he still does) draw about everything that interest people in the 60’s~70’s: social problems, bureaucracy, […]

Chess anecdotes

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Central Misperception
Leon Trotsky, who spent much of his time during World War I playing chess in Vienna’s Cafe Central, was regarded by his acquiantances as simple, harmless, even slightly pathetic.
In March 1917, the Austrian foreign minister was notified by an excited subordinate that a revolution had broken out in Russia. “Russia is not a land […]

People

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

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الناس
ما قدّسَ المثل الأعلى وجمّله            في أعين الناس إلا أنه حلم
ولو مشى فيهم حيا لحطمه            قوم وقالوا بخبث إنه صنم
ولو يعبد الناسُ إلا كل منعدم            ممنّع ولمن حاباهم العدم
حتى العباقرة الأفذاذ حبهم            يلقى الشقاء وتلقى مجدها الرمم
 
الناس لا ينصفون الحي بينهم            […]

I have a dream

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: […]

What’s the difference between Clinton and Bush?

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

What’s the difference between Bill Clinton and George W. Bush?
 
Clinton:
- Imporved the economy.
- Won a war.
- Screwed an intern.
 
Bush:
- Screwed the economy.
- Lost a war.
- Did nothing with the interns.

Free as in beer

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

 Ever thought of downloading, creating, drinking, modifying and redistributing your beer? Danish students released the first Open Source beer Vores Øl 1.0 ! The beer is licensed under a Creative Commons license in answer to the famous Stallman quote
Free softwares refer not to price but to freedom, so think of free speech, not free […]

Quite strnge definitions

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Adler’s Distinction:
Language is all that separates us from the lower animals,and from the bureaucrats.
Modesty:
The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
 
Abbott’s Admonitions:
(1) If you have to ask, you’re not entitled to know.
(2) If you don’t like the answer, you shouldn’t have asked the question.
Charles Abbot, dean, […]

MSN “fucks” around

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

According to Log statistics, 12.2% of my visitors that come using a search engine use MSN. Naturally, it’s hard to find what they want: A GNU/Linux user generally uses Google and rarely works on Windows 98!
It seems that there’s a bug that not only made MSN mix the sites and add warez content to […]

First Tunisian Wikimeeting

Monday, February 13th, 2006

The first Tunisian Wiki-meeting will take place Sunday February 19th at 15:00 . We will fix the place later.
Wiki-guru, contributor or curious, blogger or surfer, whoever you are, you are welcome and invited to discuss about the project.
Any suggestion for a decent place?

Updated my profile

Monday, February 13th, 2006

I have just updated my profile info; it’s about me, so don’t click unless you want to get more information about this blog’s owner.

Caricatures danoises, presse occidentale et médias arabes

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Jusqu’à maintenant je n’ai pas voulu intervenir sur le sujet des fameux caricatures, lisant les avis antagonistes : ceux qui défendent à tout prix la liberté d’expression, et ceux qui avancent que le prophète ne doit en aucun cas être ridiculisé; mais je pense finalement que j’ai aussi droit de donner mon avis.
Pour moi, […]


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