http://zabica.org/uros Exploring the good and the bad about the world of Computer Science! Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:28:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The other day I was driving around Ljubljana with my friend Bostjan when the song below came up on the radio. "Just listen to this," said Bostjan. And I did. And now I can't get it out of my head. The song was a big hit in 1999, somewhat before I ... http://zabica.org/uros/wear-sunscreen Scorpions - You and I I lose control because of you babe I lose control when you look at me like this there's something in your eyes that is sayin' tonight I'm not a child anymore, life has opened the door to a new exciting life I lose control when I'm close to you babe I ... http://zabica.org/uros/you-and-i I'm sure some of you remember the girl who tried to buy her MacBook Pro by selling the space on the back of the screen for 50$/square inch. A genius idea! Well, her name is Leah Culver and she is the lead developer behind Kevin Rose's latest startup Pownce. She's using ... http://zabica.org/uros/leah-culver-is-hot ... having one of these little buggers in every room you might need a computer in. I can imagine so much uses for it... web terminals in Kiberpipa, thin (ltsp) clients all over Kiberpipa, thin (ltsp) clients all around the house, audio input and output everywhere and with USB webcams video ... http://zabica.org/uros/imagine There's a lot of useful, nicely designed, user proven, tested, stable, time saving, free or cheap services, programs, scripts, webapps and things alike in this world. And I could be using any one of them to get the job done well, effortlessly and on time. And yet, for every useful, nicely ... http://zabica.org/uros/a-curse-of-engineering-mind As a user and developer of a range of open source applications and frameworks there are issues I and others have to face on daily basis. Badly designed GUI, bad exception handling, instability, a huge pile of dependencies, bugs that call them selfs features, slow and inaccurate operation, unreadable fonts, ... http://zabica.org/uros/keeping-up It's weird how we never notice what lyrics of a song are telling us until we can feel the same way than the songwritter did he wrote them. That's when we really listen to the music, feel it and relate to it. And here is an example, which made me ... http://zabica.org/uros/meaning-of-lyrics The student application period for this years edition of GSoC started today. A lot of new mentoring organizations were accepted this year, but Kiberpipa did not get in. And more surprisingly, neither did Django Project (my last years' mentors). Too bad. I had a lot of fun with my project. On ... http://zabica.org/uros/google-summer-of-code-2007 Sometimes people just leave you hanging. And it leaves you thinking. But sometimes one just has to say "f**k you all" and go and enjoy it! And so I did. Yesterday I went to a concert in Mediapark Cvetlicarna in Ljubljana, Slovenija. It was first after a very long time (if ... http://zabica.org/uros/tommy-emmanuel-concert-in-ljubljana non-L vs. L And I can tell you, it is real. And not just for lenses, but all photo hardware. Sometimes I would kill for an EOS 5D, but then I am reminded that I could do much worse as what I have (20D). For example, today I tried out the ... http://zabica.org/uros/peer-pressure