Using a linear array as a bidimensional matrix

Often times I find the need to use a list or linear array as if it was a table. Everytime I need to do so, I always end up coding functions to convert a (x,y) coordinate to the real index n in the array. Let me illustrate, with an example. You have a string that […]

Jack Bauer: “HE DID WHAT???”:

My first attempt at a political satire using some fiction. Obama always reminded me of President Palmer on 24. The future release of a bunch of uncertain status prisoners in Guantanamo reminds me of Jack Bauer going through hell, doing a lot of illegal shit to catch the bad guys, and then they’ll get released, […]

Unsigned band breaks into top 20 most shared music on the planet

From Georgia Wonder: London, UK: Georgia Wonder, an unsigned British band, climbed into the top 20 most shared music in the world last weekend, reaching 14th position in just four days with their debut EP ‘Hello Stranger’. The EP was put onto the Pirate Bay tracker on Wednesday 14th January and by Saturday 17th was […]

Georgia Wonder sails to the pirate bay’s top 20 in 4 days

Here’s a screen capture of the Georgia Wonder’s Twitter update in regards to the promotion they did with FrostWire and FrostClick. They decided to share their EP, “Hello Stranger” for free via FrostWire. Their torrent has reached the Top 20 most shared music torrents of The Pirate Bay in only 4 days.

Britney Breaks the ice with Anime Fans

A little too many references to Matrix, but it’s pretty cool. Seems like it’s part one of more to come. Britney Spears – Break The Ice

Remaining Questions about Palm’s Pre and it’s WebOS

It was an impressive presentation the one Palm gave about it’s new product, but there are still many things they didn’t mention: Battery life? It’s cool that it has a removable battery, but how long does it last? What can we build on it? They mentioned HTML, CSS and Javascript as the tools of the […]

Preparing your primary mount and swap with fdisk

I have 4 big drives on a new machine, each can hold up to 2Tb of data, at first I thought I’d use the first drive for the OS and the other 3 for a RAID5 (software controlled) Then after I had installed the operating system, I decided it was a big waste, and that […]

January 2009