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Moving this blog to serendipity

18-Απρ-09

Please see new blog at: http://earlab.org/serendipity.
As of Saturday, April 18, 2009, this blog has moved to: http://earlab.org/serendipity.
Please update your bookmarks.
The reason for the move is that (a) I like the user interface of Serendipity better than that of WordPress, (b) the fresh Serendipity install supported unicode, and (c) I liked the templates of […]

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Google Gears & Reblog

16-Απρ-09

http://gears.google.com. “A Firefox and Internet Explorer extension that allows to navigate on compatible websites offline and synchronize when going back online”. Gears is supported by WordPress as of version 2.6. That makes it good for blogging even when offline.
Reblog: http://www.reblog.org is a tool for creating automatic posts into your blog from an RSS feed. It […]

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Facebook and Twitter harmful for moral values?

16-Απρ-09

Reblogging from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5149195/Twitter-and-Facebook-could-harm-moral-values-scientists-warn.html:

Twitter and Facebook could harm moral values, scientists warn
Using Twitter and Facebook could harm moral values, as they don’t allow time for compassion or admiration, scientists have warned.

 

Last Updated: 9:05PM BST 13 Apr 2009
 
Today’s fast-paced media could be making us indifferent to human suffering and should allow […]

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Opening tumblelog for earlab

04-Απρ-09

Meeting with Stratos Kountouras and Aris Bezas yesterday. Decided to use tumblr for a common log since it is easier to manage. The blog will be embedded in the earlab website just as iani’s blog is.
Note: One can export tumblelogs as xml. So no fear of losing all the documentation done on a tumblelog as […]

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A SuperCollider Sound Artist in Istanbul

04-Απρ-09

Batuuhan Bozkurt has as website with an interesting blog, containing news and notes about the world of music and sound art.
http://www.batuhanbozkurt.com/home/index.php
Batuhan lives in Istanbul and works with SuperCollider. Besides his pieces he has also developed some highly original and extensive tools.
I found Batuhan from the Google map of SuperCollider users.

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Janet Echelman: Reshaping Urban Space with Nets

13-Δεκ-08

http://www.echelman.com/
One way to create a powerful presence in space with proportionally very little amount of matter. This is an idea to emulate also with other means, in other spaces or dimensions.
(another link gleaned from stinathina.wordpress.com).

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topics discussed about software development

12-Δεκ-08

(During a session for 3d year project involving multitouch surface)

 Xcode vs gcc
GNU, Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation, Mozilla, Mitch Kapor, Electronic Frontiers Foundation, Creative Commons, Linus Thorvalds, Linux, Creative Commons
PHP, Ruby (+ Ruby on Rails), Haskell, Horde, Blender3D, Python
TiddlyWiki, PMWiki, AMP, MAMP
CMS Plone, Zope, PMWiki, TextMate

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witness report about the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos

12-Δεκ-08

The Greek Newspaper “Ethnos” (Nation) published a witness report by the two friends of Alexis Grigoropoulos that were next to him at the moment of his shooting on Saturday evening, December 6, 2008:
http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=11424&subid=2&tag=8400&pubid=1988741
Alexis with his friends were preparing to go to a party for the namesday of a friend. A group of anarchists nearby threw […]

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switching to tiddlywiki

12-Οκτ-08

For the past 2 weeks I have been evaluating TiddlyWiki as an alternative to PMWiki. I like the idea of being able to work offline. So when I have collected enough material, I will switch the earlab website from PMWiki to TiddlyWiki. 

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