Posts about "English"
Flowing like rain
I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from ... (more)
Follow the releases of artists you listen to with Soundamus
Title tells almost all, give Soundamus your Last.fm username and it will generate an up to date list (web, feed and calendar) of the new releases that may interest you according to your profile.
Via Genbeta (more)
"Do your work" wallpaper
Feeling like wasting your time when you are at computer? Try this wallpaper. It seems to work for me :-)
Seen on Hacker News (more)
Yahoo! refuses Microsoft buying offer
As a del.icio.us and Flickr user I'm pleased to see Yahoo! will keep away from the Windows company.
It was more than 20 years since Bill Gates created an empire introducing personal computing to the average Joe. But now all these years of monopoly turned Microsoft into the situation of not kno... (more)
Location bar as the new search bar
Just a pair of tips to do quicker searches in Firefox:
Type the query directly in the location bar. It will do a normal search in Google but if the first result is the "clear winner" you'll be redirected directly to it. That is, if you search for "olympic games" it's not clear what are y... (more)
Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy") quick review
I've just upgraded to the last version. I haven't tested it deeply but I think I can give a first impression:
I don't know if its X.org, Gnome or something else but new I feel it more responsive; but maybe I'm simply fooling myself ;-)
Finally it seems I'll can use my iPod with so... (more)
Wifis and microwaves
From time to time my home wifi slows down but usually it is a neighbour that has changed his wifi channel to mine or the cat that has moved the router antennas. But what I've never seen (and hardly believed) is that a microwave could neutralize a wifi so obviously. The proof:
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Optimizing MySQL subqueries
Yesterday I was writing some SQL queries involving subqueries for a MySQL database when I saw it were being executed very poorly. This is an example of how it looked:
SELECT * FROM country WHERE id IN (
SELECT country_id FROM province WHERE id = 123
)
Nothing complicated over here... (more)
A message from Santa
Via menéame
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Seam carving, photo resizing gets smart
Seam carving is a photo resizing algorithm that takes into account its content to avoid ugly deformations. You can also mark some parts of the photo to avoid deforming it or to even remove it. There is a full explanation on this paper but it's presentation video is way more impressive:
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