Snow white, snow bright

So what’s going on.

I am currently working on the German translation, which is in desperate need of some attention. Somehow I never found the time to spend much on it.

In unrelated news, we are being snowed in. We received a boat load of snow. So far about 15 inches worth of it and I am not talking side by side but on top of each other.

So I see a shoveling good an long workout in my near future.

Oh and speaking of workout. I started round 2 of P90X after finishing round one as P96X. My overall gains are not like those you’ll find on YouTube, but I am in much better shape than I was before starting this program.

So for those on the southern hemi-sphere who might make a trip to the beach today. Here is a picture from our back yard.

Translation table

I was digging around the DVDStyler web page and saw that they have stats about the translation of the application.

I thought this is mighty cool and wrote a small shell script, which generates a similar report and plugs it to the main web page.

I call these the big dugs

Here is proof that people derived off a mole

Whow, some of them are bigger than the hole in my pocket.

iPad, Adam Tablet, Slate … WTF ?

I don’t know about you but the recent craze for tablets is nothing short of stunning to me.

1’st off I think the iPad while looking cool stinks big times.

then the run of other companies to try to match the tech and throwing out tablets en mass is just ridicules. Here are some examples :

Slate
Adam Table
Web Tablet

(Though in all fairness the Web Tablet was before the iPad )

And finally I believe what it should be and what I would want to have is something more like the OLPC 2.0. Imaging an Apple product, which you can fold like a netbook, open like a tablet, and read books like … well a book.

Think about how you set it on your desk and have a digital picture frame. What are the possibilities if both displays have a multi touch interface ?

Here are my spec requirement:

• I WANT this thing to have solar panels on the back with a 3Mega pixels camera (per panel), 500Gig hard drive and a dual core or better CPU. 4GB ram
• The resolution I demand on this device has to be 2 x 1376×800 or better 1600×1200.
• Wifi, bluetooth included, 3G optional.
• You can connect each side of the device to another pane of the same make. A solid mechanical slide and snap connection.
• The device should be able to be configured to work in tandem with other devices such that you can put four of those devices next to each other and watch a movie on one big screen.
• You start with one device and two panes and you should be able to interconnect 16 of them at a time for either display or computing sharing. Build your own cool super computer and put grid computing to work.
• A nice to have would be to also be able to detach both displays and play games against each other, wirelesly. Or to have a friend use one side surfing the web while you use the other side. Two tablets in one. What a concept !

Now this would have been revelutionary and not like the iPad evolutionary.

SourceForge censoring.

Why did it come to this ?

SourceForge was forced to deny service to the American anti-terrorism sanction list. Phew, that is wrong on so many levels.

1) Free Speech: Open Source is a way of expressing yourself.
2) Contributors: What happens to the code that was contributed by people from these countries ? They are being robbed of their labor point blank.
3) Punishment of the population and not of the government itself.
4) Destruction of the meaning of Open Source and in more generic terms of the FLOSS movement.

Guys, this is what we have fought for all along. Now imaging this would go just a step further. The freedom of downloading could disappear with one court ruling.

This Article

BTW: ZDNet, your ads stink. I cant read half the article and the close button on the advertising is NOT working. I know you are tailord to the other OS but for crying out loud why would I go back to your site when I get soooooo frustrated with it ?

As a side note, I am not as strict in my thinking about “Free” wrt Open Source in general but this one is a big deal IMHO.

Monday morning, preparing for the week ahead.

So you are at work and you have been twiddling your thumbs the past 3 hours. You would like to play a nice game but you already beat the hell out of patience and minesweeper …

Be bored no longer and check out what other time consuming possibilities lie within the internet.

Amazing Lego art

I love LEGO. I have always thought of LEGO as a very good toy to foster creativity.

However this is just bejond what I could have imagined …

Surviving the World

This is a nice blog with daily lessons of life. Just check out some random ones they are fun to read.

Pixar shorts

I always like the Pixar short animations. I finally found a place where the best are available at one mouse click.

You’ll have 100 times the fun here.

And while you are at this, there are another 99 things you should’ve seen