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Why Python is awesome :)

Inteist — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:17:41 +0000

Should I take a stab at Python and Django… It definitely looks like I should

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The fiancée of Sean Parker naked picture

Inteist — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:47:58 +0000

A bit of unusual post but this is the (almost) naked fiancee of Sean Parker Alexandra Lenas

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Google I/O 2011 is approaching!

Inteist — Thu, 05 May 2011 03:51:26 +0000

I am one of the lucky people who managed to snatch a ticket to Google I/O this year. The event was sold in a record time – 58 minutes. The servers crashed instantly during the registration process and it was quite nerv wrecking. In fact I could only register after 2 hours the registration started when the servers have finally came up using a link from the cache of my browser which included session ID, where my ticket was already saved for me just before the servers crashed.

Anyway, I just wanted to put the Google I/O live badge so here it is:

Google Buzz a step forward to Google Wave?

Android vs. iPhone vs. BlackBerry Users

Inteist — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:48:20 +0000

This is a great comics I came across, very concise and true!

I especially liked the dinosaur. BlackBerry are dinosaur outdated both in the features and especially from the development perspective. I covered this before in my Android vs. BlackBerry development post.

Facebook is down – funny tweets collection

Inteist — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:32:43 +0000

Apparently today Facebook was down for 2 hours and for some even more… I did not pick up long time on this since I do not use Facebook, but just accidentally I wanted something and I tried to load it and boom I got:

Not sure whether this is a localized event I went to twitter to see if others had this problem and man I was in for some good laughs. Here’s the collection of funniest tweets during the time that the Facebook was down:

Ant check out the Twitter trends. How “DNS Failure” sounds to you as a trend – huh?

UPDATE: Apparently it wasn’t just my “original” idea to collect funny tweets, many other websites did so as well, what is interesting that there are about 20-30 different tweets overall which just keep repeating from site to site. Are we short of funny twitter-ers? People obviously do care. Maybe they are just afraid Facebook coming after them in revenge? (just kidding of course, or am I?). Let me know what you think in comments.

Word Wrapped Preformatted text in DokuWiki

Inteist — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:42:59 +0000

I am using DokuWiki quite extensively lately to keep documentation of various things. Using wiki is quite useful in general and some people opt for using local wiki such as WikiPad but for my needs, I opted for online wiki since I often times need to access it from various places. Maybe in the future I will post why I chose DokuWiki and some of my (objective) thoughts about comparison to other wikis and some of my likes and hates about DokuWiki (although there are much more “likes” than “hates” ). This post would be short and not about it.

Several times I just wanted to put a plain (preformatted) text into the wiki for whatever reasons but I ran into a problem that DokuWiki isn’t really ready to support this. One option is to use but then the lines are not word wrapped and for text it looks just weird. So at those various occasions I tried to search for a solution with little success until I just took xterm plugin and modified it slightly (mostly the style CSS file) which took me about 5 minutes to do (and took me about 30 minutes to write this post, and the corresponding DokuWiki Plugin page and test the browsers) and now we have a wpre plugin for DokuWiki for word wrapped preformatted text which seem to work on all recent major browsers. You can dowload it from here wpre plugin for DokuWiki (the page on DokuWiki references this file)


Supported browsers:
(I just tested whatever I had installed on my machine and all are pretty recent. I suspect many much older versions should be supported as well)

FireFox 3.5.7
Safari 4.0.4 for Windows
 Opera 10.10
Internet Explorer 8.0
 Chrome 4.0

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The humans are dead – Flight of the Conchord
Inteist — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:59:21 +0000

			

				

			
		
I just could NOT not to post it. I am trying to do a rationality in multi agent systems research nowadays. This speaks to me and these guys rock!






I hope the robots remember those us that helped make them what they are and keep us around to do all those jobs that they don’t want to do. Christopher Amato
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