Last week decided to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version 9.04, aka “Jaunty Jackalope”. Although I knew from the start that there was nothing really groundbreaking in this new release, I upgraded in order to be prepared for the next release...
Topics: System Administration, You are doing it WRONG!!!

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Last night I watched the premiere of “Biblical Mysteries Explained” on the Discovery Channel. It was very interesting to say the least. I particularly liked episode 1 which tries to provide scientific explanations for the events that occurred.

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A couple of days ago a friend told me that one of his cousins had just passed away at the age of 42. Today, he gave a bit more details on how his cousin died. Apparently his cousin had been suffering from diabetes and hepatitis for quite some time. A...
Topics: You are doing it WRONG!!!, You are NOT EVEN WRONG!!!

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I have been trying to learn functional programming in Haskell on and off for about two years now. The functional programming approach, terminologies and Haskell’s unfamiliar syntax makes me feel like a fish out of water every time I try to learn...
Topics: Code and Consequences, Haskell

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I have been working on a multi-user blogging and publishing platform using Django 1.0 lately. Naturally this requires the backend to be able to handle file uploads. A lot of things have changed from Django 0.96 which I am still using on some legacy code..
Topics: Code and Consequences, Django, Python

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