Filminute 2011 critics
Filminute is the International One-Minute Film Festival and for its 2011 edition, I’ve got a deal with them: writing twentyfive short but tweet sized reviews, one for each candidate. I’ve watched all of them: the quality clearly increased since the previous edition. It has been hard to choose a candidate to vote for… and I [...]
On Yeti Tracks
A summer ruled by blue mood is not the right thing to turn me into a hungry reader so “On Yeti Tracks” is the only short novel I can write a few lines about. What I liked most of this pleasant typical Chatwin story, with his unique mix of searching and telling, was the beginning: [...]
Closing the top posts list
After a few years of monthly updates, I stopped publishing the top posts list of this blog because it has been almost stable for many months so the following is the last one. Top ten Italian songs of all times Inserting raw HTML code in MediaWiki jQuery tabs and cookies Using AWK to remove file [...]
Yet another c25k report :)
As stated on their website, C25K is a fantastic program that’s been designed to get just about anyone from the couch to running 5 kilometers or 30 minutes in just 9 weeks. I completed it in 6 weeks and 3 days but I was not a true potato couch, though. :) I don’t have a [...]
A week in Belgium
This post contains a few pictures of Brussels and Leuven… though the whole thing was nearer to nine days than a week. :) Brussels Buildings in the Grand Béguinage of Leuven The Town Hall of Leuven My talk during AWEC2011 Group portrait… I was late so you can find me in the red circle :)
AWEC2011
The slides of my presentation at AWEC2011 (Airborne Wind Energy Conference 2011) are now available. I’m going to put a few pictures of Leuven and Bruxelles in the next post.
Chunking Base64 binary data in Java
I’m not an expert but it seems to me that the different methods to encode as Base64 a *binary* stream exposed by Apache Commons don’t chunk for binary inputs or don’t chunk at all, in spite of what their documentation states. So let me write here a little snippet, which uses guava-libraries, for an already [...]
A tentatively nightfall runner
I like nightfall running and, while the darkness lets me breathe better, it also helps me not to look so clumsy. :)
Debian 6 VirtualBox image
There is not a VirtualBox image of Debian GNU/Linux 6 on VirtualBoxes: I’ve created a new minimal version starting from debian-6.0.0-i386-netinst.iso. This is the sequence of choices of the installation procedure (almost defaults). English United States American English debian {empty} deb2011! deb2011! Debian User mdeb deb2011! deb2011! Eastern Guided – use entire disk {enter} {enter} [...]
