January 2007
23 posts
Fresh start
Some things did get a fresh start in the new year. :P
First question
The first question from 2007 came from pine:
Move current “sent-mail” to “sent-mail-dec-2006”?
I had o say no though…
December 2006
43 posts
Whigfield - Saturday Night
It’s not Saturday but this is a great song for saying goodbye to 2006.
Whigfield – Saturday Night
Dee Dee na na na
Saturday night, I feel the air
Is getting hot
Like you baby
I’ll make you mine you know
I’ll take you to the top
I’ll drive you crazy
Saturday night, dance, I like
The way you move
Pretty baby
It’s party time and not one
Minute we can lose
Be my baby
Da ba da dan...
Binding
One last quote for this year:
I’m a Lisp variable — bind me!
She loves me!!
Yesss! She loves me! :) Now I’m sure that Mimi (also) loves me! When I woke up this morning she was in my bed! We played a little, she got out of the bed and come back a few times and then I finally got up and showed my appreciation to her with some Friskies crunchy treats. :P
Now I can safely let the 2006 to finish. :)
Bye Bye iBook
Two days ago, after 3 years and about 5 months the logic board of my dear iBook laptop failed for the second time. This time it’s not covered by any warranty anymore so it’s not going to work again. I opened it once again (I did it before to change the harddrive drive some time ago) and I took out the harddrive and put it in a external enclosure.
Yesterday I went with Reza and Raluca to an...
The Jacket
I think I put this movie in the Netflix queue after I saw the trailer. Adrien Brody acting looked so powerful that I couldn’t resist to want to watch it. :P I just finally watched and I have to say that I don’t understand exactly why if got so low ratings! :) I liked the cinematography, the acting (to see Keira Knightley was a nice surprise :P) and also the story which, unusual for a dark movie...
Diplomats
A nice quote (from puppy of course):
How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, and they believe what they read. — Karl Kraus, “Aphorisms and More Aphorisms”
Right
The tricky part for this one is to find what is right but otherwise is a very good advise. :-)
Something Stupid
I just remind of this cute song a few days ago. Thanks to YouTube I was able to also able to quickly see it. One interesting thing is that I didn’t remember that first few tunes have such a fast tempo but after I listened to it several time I regained the feeling that was right. :-)
Petals
I’ll end today’s round of posts with a sad news. A few trees started to bloom some time ago but today all the petals died. Today it was cold and rainy…
Two more advices
Two more advices I received today from the Dove Dark Chocolate treats. The first is quite easy to follow but I don’t really know that “race” means but, of course, winning sounds nice. :P
A MERRY XMAS TO YOU!
Like every year, wmpinboard wished me his traditional wish. The application still has a permanent place on my desktop even I never really used it. It is a faithful and non intrusive friend though. :-)
Broken
If you pull hard enough, everything brakes…
Apart
Most of the people I know are going somewhere or to someone. So are my thoughts…
Wet
It was a sad and wet day in Baltimore yesterday. If it would have been cold enough it would have rained. But it wasn’t…
Special Place
Plans
The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridges of Madison County is a very sad, in a real and painfull way, love story in which Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood give a stunning performance. The movie is not glamourous in the way many Hollywood movies are. It has flies, bridges and a touchy story. I like it.
Do what you have to to be happy in this life. There is so much beauty.
jhead
jhead este un utilitar bun de vizualizat shi manipulat informatziile EXIF din fishiere JPG. L-am folosit mai demult insa acum cateva zeci de minute nu am reushit de imi aduc aminte prea ushor numele lui. :P
A misterious song
I few days ago I posted on YouTube the ending of episode 34 from The Wonder Years and someone asked in the comments about the song. I spend some time trying to find it and I still don’t have a proper answer. :|
The lyrics are the one mention here and here but I’m not sure how accurate the “You’ll Be My Love” title is. Chuck Willis has one with the same name but it’s different. Helmut Lotti has...
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 10
u
mù wood
zhù to live
chū to go out
ua
huā flower
zhuā to catch
shuā to brush
uai
huài bad
kuài piece
shuāi to tumble
uan
tuán round
chuān to wear
luàn disorganized
uang
huáng yellow
zhuàng shape
chuáng bed
uo
cuò wrong
huó life
zuò to do
ui
zuì sin, crime ...
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 9
i
bǐ pen
mǐ meter
pí leather
ia
jiā home
liǎ two
qià exact
iao
miáo to describe
liáo to chat
diào to fish
ian
tiān day
diǎn dot
liǎn face
iang
jiāng river
liǎng two
qiáng strong
ie
tiě iron
bié don’t
dié to fall
iu
qiū autumn
diū to lose
liú to...
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 8
e
kè class
de (particle)
le (particle)
ei
děi must
bēi cup
měi pretty
en
mén door
gēn with
zhēn true
eng
mèng dream
shēng to be born
lěng cold
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 7
o
wǒ I
mó to rub
pò broken
ou
tōu to steal
zhōu state
sōu to search
ong
tóng same
nóng farm
hóng red
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 6
a
mā mother
bà father
tā him
ai
lái to come
dài to bring
cāi to guess
ao
dào to go
cǎo grass
nǎo brain
an
fàn food
mǎn full
tán to discuss
ang
fàng to place
tāng soup
bāng to help
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 5
hé and
hàn sweat
hěn very
yě also
yuǎn far
yī one
wǒ I
wèn to ask
wǔ five
rén person
rè hot
ruǎn soft
zhǐ paper
chī to eat
shì to be
rì sun
èr two
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 4
mā mother
mén door
míng bright
fàn food
fēng wind
fù father
nán male
nǚ female
nǎ which
lěng cold
lā to pull
lán blue
Graduate Students
The fortune cookie serv to me by Puppy:
The problem with graduate students, in general, is that they have to sleep every few days.
Listen
Hidden & Dangerous
Hidden & Dangerous was released for free some time ago. I didn’t know about this till today. :P
Hiding Out
Hiding Out is a mix of comedy, action and romance. It was made in 1987 and I got interested in it because of the song “Crying” by Roy Orbison which I bumped into in a post from Ionuka’s blog. I’m not sure if newer generations will enjoy this movie but I did. The era depicted in the movie is lost forever but with a little effort I can somehow imagine how it was. :P
Enya - Oh Holy Night
The today’s drug for me was Oh Holy Night by Enya. Thank you D. :-)
PS: the song reminds me a little of… Zhou Yu’s Train. :P
Sad news...
Lots of sad news reach me lately… :-(
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 3
z
“yards“
zài again
zǎo early
zuǒ left
c
“its“
cǎo grass
cóng from
cài vegetables
s
sān three
sè color
suǒ lock
zh
“june”
zhuō table
zhōu state
zhàn station
ch
“church”
chá tea
chōu to smoke, to draw
chū to go out
sh
“shout”
shōu to receive ...
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 2
bān to move
bèi to memorize
bǎo full
pǎo to run
pàng fat
pá to climb
dōu all
děng to wait
dà big
tīng to listen
tōu to steal
tà to step on
gè each
gǎn dare
gào to tell
kè class
kào to learn
kǔ bitter
Chinese Pronunciation: Lesson 1
bī to force
bí nose
bǐ to compare
bì wall
dā to build
dá to answer
dǎ dozen
dà big
wēi power
wéi small
wěi tail
wèi for
yīng cherry
yíng to win
yǐng shadow
yìng stiff
wū dark
wú nothing
wǔ five
wù error
xī west
xí to extinguish
xǐ to wash
xì drama
qī seven
qí...
A neccesary truism
From /include/linux/types.h: #define BITS_PER_BYTE 8.
A message from... yahoomessengerteam
This was an unexpected message on YIM:
11:39:43 yahoomessengerteam: Yahoo! Messenger will be performing scheduled maintenance on December 8 from 5.3
And they kept their promise. :P
"no public key available"
The solution for the error:
Reading package lists... Done
W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:
A70DAF536070D3A1
is to install the debian-archive-keyring:
# apt-get install debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
debian-keyring is already the newest version.
The following packages will be upgraded:
...
Zhou Yu's Train
I started the writing of this review more than one week ago. At that time I didn’t think it was going to take so long to finish it. There’s something very special for me in this movie. I cannot say that I see myself in one of the characters, but the way they are constructed makes me feel very close to all of them.
Intro
I found out about Zhou Yu’s Train by looking for movies starring Li...
Next Page/Prev Page in PDF Browser Plugin
PDF Browser Plugin de la Schubert|it este o jucarica foarte utila pe care o folosesc de mult timp. Din pacate uit in mod consecvent care-i combinatzia de taste pentru Next Page/Prev Page. Ea este Alt-Left pentru Next Page shi Alt-Right pentru Prev Page. De data asta sa ma tzina mai mult. :P
configure-debian
Debian Hint #2: You can use ‘dpkg-reconfigure ‘ to change the answers you gave to the questions asked when you first installed a package. The ‘configure-debian’ package provides a unified front end for doing this, as well.
I didn’t know about this package. I just installed it and I’ll used when the first occasion will appear. :P