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1 EUR = 0.9088 GBP (1.10 EUR = 1 GBP)
1 EUR = 1.4943 USD (1.5 dollars!!!)
The dollar is really going down.
Category: English
Blog Action Day 09
Today is the blog action day.
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KiteNav, reloaded
This looks cool ..
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94_4nvGBQ80]
Who will Berlusconi insult next?
On a betting irish site is it possible to bet who will be the next insult’s target of Berlusconi.
The funny thing is this page is not visible in Italy because there is no agreement about the quantity of money the italian state (which is the only one allowed to be the bookmaker) should take.
So I attach the screenshot here:
Choosing the websites colours
Every time I have to set up a new website, or I have to revamp an old one I always find myself with the classic dilemma:
“Which colors should I use?”
If I choose colors randomly the results is not really that interesting, so the main idea is to use a pricipal color and then move on the palette. Today I discovered this amazing tool:
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Color Scheme example
Pretty handy.
via ebiInterface
Pulseaudio and skype. Finally friends
All the old problems are just not here anymore.
Finally the developer of skype had rolled out a version which is pulseaudio friendly.
The version 2.1 Beta works really well, the CPU is not going crazy and it’s all good.
Just update to the last one. And you can use skype again.
They are back
New album from Pearl Jam: The Backspacer 20th September
This is the making of:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3m4gvJDrlo]
The single is The Fixer: really cool stuff
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj-sFIHQWLY]
More over there is going to be a new Album from Alice in Chains late in September as well.
Autumn will rock!
Interested in some random math stuff?
How an Hill equation looks like?
What is the behaviour of an alpha function?
well, I have scipy installed, I know the equation, I know how to create an array of points… Let’s crunch some numbers!
Hill’s equation:
n variation
K variation:
Alpha function:
If you interested in this and other amenities check the code in the scipy_ex folder on github.
The Hill equation is in the mathematical functions script..
Importing bazaar branch into git
So if you want to import a bazaar branch into git how do you do that?
Following this amazing tutorial which works in a very cool and smooth way
Check it out!
It was really handy 🙂