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Painless upgrade
I just upgraded the site to WordPress 3.0. It was totally painless! :-D
Salty Sticks (a recipe)
Sorting out stuff I had in my old office at the Uni (essentially piles of papers and old computer pieces) I found this recipe for something I remember fondly from some party: Serbian Salty Sticks Ingredients: 250g butter 1 egg + 1 egg yolk 2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. sugar 1 yeast bag 1 shot [...]
Maravillas de la tecnología
Hoy empieza oficialmente el plazo para solicitar la admisión en los programas de Master de la UNED. Esta admisión sólo se puede solicitar online. Me he quedado atónito cuando he visto que no han tocado la página desde hace varios días (como mínimo), y la pestaña de “Admisión” sigue considerando hoy como una fecha futura, [...]
Slowly dwindling from facebook
My privacy concerns about the way facebook treats the information I posted there are leading me to decide that very little of it shall remain in a near future. To begin with, I have taken advantage of the changes in the way personal interests and such are treated to delete all information on that. I [...]
De piratas intelectuales
El problema con el follón sobre los derechos de autor es que las empresas que viven de timar a los autores y a los consumidores han hecho creer a los primeros que es una cuestión de derechos de autor, de una guerra contra los segundos. La cuestión no es propiedad intelectual vs. descargas en el [...]
Naughty Xmas
Fetlife is giving away some gifts once more. If you’ve been naughty this year, go ask Santa!!
Personal growth, sleep control, and all that
Reading about Polyphasic Sleep I get tempted to try it for a while… of course, that leads to wondering how I’m going to manage, since I can’t get myself to wake up most of the time. In the same blog I happen to stumble upon a solution to that problem, which I shall try. Polyphasic [...]
Red tuna
—It tasted like nothing you’ve ever tasted. Imagine all the flavours of the ocean flowing through the most exquisite texture in your mouth, evolving in a whirpool of colors and music. It is the most delicious thing I’ve ever tasted—I said, remembering my happy old times. —So, what happened to it?—they asked, eyes wide open. [...]
A two hundred year old quote
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up [...]