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LTArt.NL backstage interview: Evelina Kvartūnaitė

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Tomorrow - Saturday 26th November - I will be attending LTArt.NL, an event showcasing Lithuanian artists living in the Netherlands. One of the organisers, Evelina Kvartūnaitė, has been regularly posting "backstage interviews" with various artists and performers who will be at the event. I thought it was about time we ...

Old man

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

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Bloke

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011



FFS

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Hey, buddy! See that thing in front of you? It's a monitor. It's connected to a computer, which in turn is connected to -- gasp! -- the INTERNET. That's the single biggest and most easily searchable repository of information humankind has ever known. No, really! It's great. You should check ...

Questions vs. Answers vs. Comments

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Results 1 - 100 of about 1,680,000,000 for comments Results 1 - 100 of about 426,000,000 for answers Results 1 - 100 of about 691,000,000 for questions It's true: on the internet, there are more questions than answers; but almost everyone has got something to say. How very like life.

PayPal email fail

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Now that I've got a job working for an email service provider I've started taking a bit more notice of different companies' attempts at email marketing, and I have to admit to becoming slightly more sensitive about when they do it badly. Today I received yet another ridiculous failure that's ...

Dear Linux.com, you suck. Love, pgl

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Wankers. [The below pasted verbatim, including grammatical errors, etc.] From: Peter Lowe <pgl@yoyo.org> To: Linux Foundation <events@linux-foundation.org> CC: linux.com.users@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Linux.com.users] 20% LinuxCon Registration Discount for Linux.com Members I don't normally bother responding to poorly thought out marketing attempts like this, but, your last one so annoying that I just - can't - help myself. Look, you're ...

Incroyable - fantastique

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Tres bien. Magnifique. • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6h03RO2Wcxo

screen: split windows + how to use them

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Screen allows you to create multiple sessions in which to execute processes (normally interactive shells, at least for me). The most common way of using these multiple shells is via the key bindings to switch between them (ctrl + a,<space> being the most common in my experience). Often, some windows are ...

RSS feed for friends' Twitter updates - in Google Reader

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Hooray. I like keeping up with what my friends are up to, and add any weblog feeds I find to Google Reader whenever I come across one. Recently I've realised how many of them are using Twitter, which I've signed up for but have no interest in using myself. So, it ...