Swobodin v Brně

I had a problem with a friend who enjoys listening to Charles Aznavour loudly. I don’t appreciate that singer (it’s just a personal preference) so I threatened him to sing loudly with my awfully bad voice … an Opera song!
As the most famous aria I know is Verdi’s La dona è mobile, I learned […]

During 20 miutes of boredom, I added a more or less complicated captcha to my contact form. It’s based on a 256 bit encryption, session handling and Gd image generation.
Spammers made me sick, they send any carp, link to anywhere, I don’t know what exactly is their objective, to encourage me to buy? I […]

Mark Shuttleworth, the South African Linux hacker and millionaire, owner of the company Canonical which sponsors Ubuntu, told in an interview with ChannelRegister that Ubuntu is going commercial.
Thus, Ubuntu will no longer be a community based Operating System.

Mr Shuttleworth also has a distant intention, somewhere in the future, of recouping some of the $10m […]

A man labelled with a Jewish star laments that he can’t blow up food and medicine being handed out to Arabs. Hezbollah is lauded for “building bridges” with people.
 
Where does this editorial cartoon come from? A Hezbollah house organ, perhaps? Al-Jazeera? Maybe a fringe anti-Semitic group in the US?
 
No. It’s an editorial cartoon by Joel […]

Euronews says:

Former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has made an emotional return to the political fray. Jospin quit politics after finishing behind far right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in presidential elections four years ago. But he returned to the stage on Saturday and when a delegate asked him why he had left and why […]

What a nightmare, my hair is making me look 20 years older!
It started to fall when I was 17, today I’m practically bald. Okay, I have no problem with this, some people even call me “the bald” and I don’t find it offensive at all.
The surprise was today, some friends noticed that I have […]

Extracted from International Carthage Festival website

Carthage Festival was founded in 1964, It attracted famous artists throughout the world such as: Hedi Semlali, Ali Riahi, Hedi Jouini, Feyrouz, Sabeh Fakhri, Warda. Moreover, the Festival invited artists from outside the Arab and Mediterranean area to offer its spectators a wide range of artistic creation. Thus, Carthage […]

Source: Zaman Daily Newspaper
 

Pluto, previously accepted as the smallest planet in the Solar System, has been reclassified in a decision taken by astronomers at a gathering in the Czech Republic.
 
The decision to reclassify Pluto was taken in Prague during the Astronomers Congress organized by the International Astronomers Union (IAU). Astronomers gathered to vote on […]

According to Quino …

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoover

سمعت هذا الحوار البارحة بتونس العاصمة
-أنا مانبكيش وقت الصلاة أما برجولية مرة بركة بكيت وقت اللي الإمام كان يدعي على اليهود. تأثرت بصفة كبيرة. هو كيف تجي تشوف يلزم الخشوع وقت الصلاة و حتى البكاء، هكة قال عمر خالد
أولا, لم أكن أعلم أن أئمتنا بهذا القدر من التطرف حتى يبثوا الحقد والبغض والعنصرية فتصل دعواهم […]

I’m not really sure whether I am allowed to redistribute my electronic copies of O’Reilly books, however, I’m not sure if it’s forbidden!
According to the license that I find in most of O’Reilly books, there’s no line that prohibits the redistribution of the book, and there’s no legal threat, the only “serious” notice is

Copyright […]

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and vileness, and enjoy it to the full.

Leon Trotsky

Jeremy is a writer working at a publishing house in London; in order to make a best-seller, his boss gave him a mission which consists of convincing Weldon Parish to write again after 20 years of retirement. Weldon lives in an Italian village since his retirement; however, Weldon with his very unsociable and aggressive […]

It’s time to review my blog activity, to figure out the bad points and to enhance the good ones.
Almost 9000 “human” visits so far in August, more than 80% of visitors come from Google, they often make wrong keywords, but sometimes find exactly what they are looking for, according to keywords.
The average of visit […]