Since I installed Ubuntu on my PC, two new versions have been released. Yesterday, I first upgraded to 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and then to 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). As the update process went by like a breeze, this post, then, is just for future reference: As my Terratec EWX 24/96 sound card still does not seem [...]
Category Archives: I’m a geek
Best Idea for a Website Ever
November 19, 2010 – 15:03
I just had a fantastic idea. Someone should build a site where every link reads “click here”.
A Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits
November 9, 2010 – 23:49
Today, on what would have been his 76th birthday, I finished watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Journey. Just in case you don’t know, or don’t care to read the links, here’s the summary: Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, cosmologist, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. Cosmos [...]
caps lock day
October 22, 2010 – 11:07
today is caps lock day. and one thing of the few things i hate more than caps lock day is when someone puts up signs around the office claiming it’s caps lock day in comic fucking sans ms. so i whipped up a quick easter-egg. include then following code somewhere in your jquery enabled javascript [...]
Exposing YouTube's Shortlink with Greasemonkey
June 21, 2010 – 22:41
Last week, I was surprised to find that YouTube does not promote its youtu.be shortlinks prominently on the video pages. Sure, it’s trivial enough to transform the regular url (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ujmb3jQAJE) into its shorter counterpart (http://youtu.be/7Ujmb3jQAJE), but let’s face it, we’re all a bunch of lazy sobs. To cut a long story short, I pieced together [...]
