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wordpress, atahualpa, xLanguage and widget titles translation

My site is implemented in wordpress. I use the very nice atahualpa theme from bytesforall and a special plugin for multilingual websites, xLanguage from Sam Wong. Multilingual support is very important for many people and I hope wordpress will support directly multilingual sites in the future. Currently xLanguage is the best approach in my opinion and I have tried most -if not all- multilingual wordpress plugins. Of course nothing is perfect and the atahualpa and xLanguage combination do not escape from this rule. There are some small problems...

Nespresso Art

For the next few months I have to abstain from alcohol and most types of coffee. Espresso (Lungo) is one of the few types of coffee I am still allowed to drink – in moderation of course. Thus I got myself a Nespresso machine since I am too lazy for a more traditional espresso machine. Deeply affected by this sudden change in my life, I grabbed my camera and with a little help from GIMP I created the image below:

Fraud Art: The void towards knowledge in the dusk of the industrial era

Today I am proud to introduce you to the Fraud Art (F.Art™) series, an effort to make you art (un)aware. It involves uninteresting pictures and baroque titles. The first Fraud Art masterpiece I will bless you with is The void towards knowledge in the dusk of the industrial era, illustrated bellow: Of course, since I understand that most of you don’t have even a remote relation to art, I will try to explain it to you with simple words. The dusk is pretty literally expressed as...

Fujitsu Amilo Pi 3560 review from a Linux user

This week I bought a new laptop although my old one has still plenty of life in it thanks to Intel. Their graphics drivers suffer for over a year now and for the last months it became just impossible to work with. I appreciate the work of their developers, writing open source graphics’ drivers and leading in general graphics’ drivers, xorg server and linux kernel to a better setup (in-kernel drivers, kms, gem). But the thing is that while they are doing this their drivers are a pain to use. My old laptop, with an Intel T7300 CPU...

Wallpaper: Poser

Some days ago I decided to play a bit with some HDR techniques. With the help of the open source Qtpfsgui I created my first pseudo HDR from a photo of mine. It isn’t something spectacular but I thought I should share it anyway. It is a Mantis insect with enough free space around it in order to arrange your widgets. The resolution of the image is 1680×1050. The original photo was shot with my beloved Canon 500D and the EF-S 55-250mm f4-5.6 IS but I will write about it another time. To save it to your hard disk right click on it and...

musearch: per ebuild USE flag descriptions on your terminal

There is some material I want to upload to the site eventually. I will begin with musearch, a bash script useful to Gentoo Linux users. musearch lets you search for an ebuild and then displays it’s USE flags along with their description. It can be considered as a CLI interface to Mike Valstar’s site gentoo-portage.com. musearch uses portage (emerge), esearch or eix to search for an ebuild by name or by name and description. Then, provided the results aren’t too many (we don’t want to cause unnecessary traffic to...

Opening Act

Welcome! Today is a special day since I managed to start officially a “project” I wanted a lot but neglected flamboyantly for a long time: the creation of a decent personal web page. Sure, “decent” is subjective but objectively the present page is much better than my previous attempts. Before I proceed any further I would like to apologize in advance for any errors I have in my text. English isn’t my native language and thus, despite my efforts, mistakes are unavoidable. Besides the indolence which almost always comes with a good...