Year: 2012

Weekly digest – 2012-05-06

  • Monday. Kicks me in the nuts every single time. Today is not an exception. #
  • I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/7CU65l1q What if Dexter had been a sitcom? #
  • Blogs about privacy concerns are hypocritical, aren't they? :) #
  • Resistance is futile. Once again I've tried to scroll to the end of the page on one of those websites with infinite scrolling… #
  • I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/4XNXduc4 Old Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Er #
  • Am I the only one who thinks that celebrating Labor day with a day off is weird and confusing? :) #
  • Google search for "zerg rush" is fun to watch. https://t.co/ytkpXhGr #
  • MetaQuotes sues Xogee … http://t.co/vB9JSKsq #
  • There are many brands and flavors of ice cream.Some are OK, others better. But only when you open a Haagen-Dazs, you feel the difference. #
  • @GyuzelZari кхм … Гюзель, так нельзя. Так ты скоро на людей бросаться начнёшь. :) #
  • Weltenburger Kloster Bier http://t.co/auIoThJd #
  • Welcome to Friday! I'll be right back – gotta get a quick nap before work. :) #
  • http://t.co/a8ieD0lr #
  • Coca cola http://t.co/WuSCFYrr #
  • Stella Artois http://t.co/5eGH6Eja #
  • @Raikhman gotta learn who that is now :-) #
  • I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/ggk8QHQH Osprey — the ultimate fisher #
  • That's what I call a proper sleep. 15 hours and 30 minutes … I feel so refreshed and rested now. :) #
  • We are so eager to find life on other planets. But why, I ask you? Probably to destroy it too. #
  • Upgrading my Motorola Defy phone to Cyanogen 9. Really hoping it won't brick. :) #
  • And there we go … no mobile phone for me for now. :) #
  • Watching dots multiply after the word "formatting". Singing "Unbrick my heart". #
  • Goddammit #AEL fans! Get a life already. It's the end of the second day already. Enough, re! #
  • The recovery mode is gone now too … All I have is a black screen and a white led. No reactions to reboots or any buttons. #
  • If this brick won't boot by itself until tomorrow, I'll get myself a new Nexus. Wanted Android 4 on my phone anyway. :) #
  • @ektagon Motorola's mobile division belongs to Google now, so they will make more. And Motorola Defy is the best hardware device I've had. #
  • @ektagon I don't think anybody will buy RIM … #
  • @alex_mamchenkov I don't think there is any hope for this one. So I'll get a permanent Nexus. :) #
  • I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/tQ9RZ4RS Уральские пельмени 2012. Танк для генерала #

Flickr update

For a while now I’ve been on the fence in regards to the Flickr vs Google Picasa battle.  With both services constantly changing and improving, it’s difficult to make a decision and stick to it.  But I think finally I’ve decided.  Flickr it is.  They’ve caught up with the features that I wanted so much for so long, and just in the last month released two of my “most wanted” – a much improved uploading tool, and quick and easy image editor.

Both of those additions pushed me to finalize the upload of all my pictures to Flickr.  So now, all I had from my digital camera, is there.  And I’ve enjoyed making the pictures better, more attractive with the editor – all it takes is just a few clicks to convert an average picture of which I have thousands into an eye candy.

Flickr has also recently released and improved its Android app, which once again makes me think about my mobile pictures.  I will probably start pushing them into my Flickr stream as well.

And as far as Google Picasa is concerned, I think they’ve spoiled it quite a bit with such a tight integration with Google+.  And their URLs are still ugly, making it pretty much impossible to migrate links from the blog via automatic redirection. Bad Google, bad.  And while I’m sure they will improve, I don’t think I will change over any time soon – the decision process tired me down.

Fedora 18 : Spherical Cow

First, the source:

Thank you to everyone who participated in voting for the Fedora 18
release name. The name for Fedora 18, the follow-up to Beefy Miracle,
is:

      Spherical Cow

Voting period:  Friday 2012-04-20 00:00:00 to Friday 2012-04-27 00:00:00
Number of valid ballots cast:  429

That offset a lot of people, it seems.  But personally I like it.  I think it’s always a good idea not to take yourself too seriously.