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Endeavours

Last weekend we rented a car (again) and went towards Waterford to buy a couple of wine classes from the factory, with the quote "but I want to see the ocean" in mind.. so it was a very nice trip, got to drive about 400k, but unfortunately we

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Breakfast

Well, I've got a new fav as far as breakfast is concerned :) "continental"(ish) as in: blue cheese spread on toast with various confitures. and milk with coffee too :) i've tried brie (camembert-like), goats cheese and blue cheese. Goat's cheese is quite

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Wireless update

Well, I've updated my laptop and desktop to SuSE 9.2. Is very nice, but still the profile switching is a bit heavy-duty for me (all I need is to change wireless networks automatically...). So I'm back writing my wireless daemon and now I'm

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Back

In a few words, Great trip home. New Year's night/party was very good, went to Iasi for a couple of days and had loads of fun doing "alternative tourism" :).. as in instead of taking photos of touristy things/places, I took photos of degrading buildings,

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Glitch

A Xmas glitch in the matrix :).. I got tickets from an Irish agency (Limerick Travel) and whatever method they used, the tickets weren't home yesterday when I got there. So, a small change of plans: Now I'll fly with Czech Airlines @ 550 euro instead of Malev

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Back

Hihi, I'm back from NY/New Rochelle :). great trip, met few nice people did lots of photos :) Great Xmas there and I want more! :) June == trip to grand canyon with "the lads" camping thing :) -- This is a really old post published originally on my blogspot

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Ping

Well, I in NY now (well, just outside) and it's nice :). Went in Manhattan today walking around all over the place and saw few cute things worthy to be photographed. one of these days I'll stay till it gets dark so I can take nice photos

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Ping!

New week, and a bit of news... A bit deflated with the thesis as there are a bit of experiments to run hopefully till January.. Other, went to a Sprayway sale on Saturday and got myself a GoreTex jacket and a pair of pants :) very cheap. everything went to about

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Arrgh!

Well, I've been writing a piece of code today and it took me 3 hours to realise that strcmp(txt, "message") was giving me a segfault.. because it doesn't accept implicit parameter. putting a: const char *msg = "message"; strcmp(txt, msg); works.

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Badminton

Yesterday I've played badminton with my new club :) I'm yet to formally enroll, but the lads (and ladies) were quite nice and let me play. after a warm-up with one of the good guys there, i got to play doubles. for the first time. ..ever :). rather

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Nice w/end

An important piece in my master plan to run the marathon in NY next year got resolved: running shoes :).. yesterday I've installed my laserpod... very nice toy and last nite I left it projecting lights on the ceiling. all i can say is that my room is not

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Movies

Yesterday i went to see "Hero". was just like going to a ballet dance. very cinematic, even more than the Crouching Tiger.. or maybe it's me liking flying silk all over the place :) And today I went to see "The Isle", a Korean movie

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translated

I've finished the Romanian translation for kdevelop... now is a "wait and see" period to see if they're happy with them :) An interesting thing is, as I was doing the translation and attempting to use the Romanian diacritics, that not too many fonts in

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..and

it was my bday last week! :) -- This is a really old post published originally on my blogspot blog

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Trip and more stuff

A while ago, I went to Donegal for the bank holiday weekend. Quite a nice and quiet place. Funny that I've almost passed by "the highest cliffs in Europe (?)" without noticing them.. maybe because they were partly covered in clouds and they're not vertical

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Weekly bit of Qt programming

Last night (or better: this morning) I decided that it should be possible to group a bunch of widgets (back-to-back) in a menu entry. ..Ahh, the stress :).. First, I tried "java style" (aka look on the net, maybe some other manic already did it). Either I was too

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Bank holiday looming

Yop, it's true! there's a new bank holiday w/end coming! :). i'll be off to Donegal (for a change). Other than that, I've figured out how to write a systray applet in KDE without a hidden KMainWin. Thanks to Hamish Rodda, the

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DBUS and Mad scientists...

For the last while I was poking around with the glorious "D-BUS"... As it's always the case with new cutting edge technology, it's done by one or more very good, brilliant one might say (posh british accent here) people. I always have this image

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Go Feroe!

Went yesterday to watch Ireland vs Feroe Islands! Good crack I'd say. Value compared, the Faeroese played better than Irish, although at the end of the day only the points count, and Ireland got all 3 of them. On a sidenote, it was a good opportunity to find

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Bits

I've got a tripod from Amazon yesterday :). So now I can stress my DX6490 with long exposure shots. Too bad (?) it has only 16 seconds max exposure time. But I guess for a "mid-advanced amateur" camera is OK. I had some weird shots of 2 sec

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eta blog!

woohoo! now I have a blog so I can say various :) -- This is a really old post published originally on my blogspot blog