Archive for December, 2004

Right or Left? Of the questions of this recurring…

Saturday, December 25th, 2004
Right & Left: Conservative and ProgressiveA question of politics. A question of philosophy. A question of culture. A question of life.
A new weblog is born. Right & Left is a collection of thoughts about the (practical) meanings of being conservative or progressive. Mau and I will take care of it. You just have to share your thoughts with us.
Right & Left: Conservative and Progressive.
 

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Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen – Trust me, it’s worth it [song]

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Firefox, Thunderbird and the Mozilla mess

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

product-firefox.pngproduct-thunderbird.pngI gave up. Few weeks after my complaint about the Firefox affaire, I decided to switch from the Mozilla suite to Firefox (browser) and Thunderbird (mail, news and feed reader, version 1.0 just released). It seems the Mozilla suite will be released in 1.8 alpha versions for still a long time, before they will eventually decide to switch the whole SeaMonkey project to be Firefox and Thunderbird based and release Mozilla 2.0.
And what about the Mozilla Suite roadmap? No information about the future releases.
However, I still think that this is a temporary solution for me. On one side I have to recognise that Firefox and Thunderbird are definitely better (more developed) than Mozilla, but still, they are two different programs and I’m not used to it. Maybe my problems sound silly, but since the browser and the mail reader are the programs I use the most, it’s a big (and annoying) change. Just the shortcuts as an example:

  • They removed the ctrl-q shortcut (why???) in Firefox to close all the windows (only in Thunderbird it is still present, and of course, it closes only Thunderbird)
  • By pressing ctrl-n in Thunderbird you get a new compose-message window (in Mozilla you get a new browser window)
  • (related to the previous) I’m used to close all the browser windows when I don’t need them anymore and keep only the mail window open. Try to guess what I have to do now when I do that :)
  • In Thunderbird, by right-clicking to a link in an e-mail, it’s not possible to choose “open in a new window” of the browser
  • Still in Thunderbird, there is no “Next-unread-message” button, neither “Mark-all button” (useful for the newsgroups)
  • In Firefox: why in the heck they have removed the shift-left click to perform the “save as” command?

Update: Just found a presentation directly from the Mozilla Developer Day 2004 called Mozilla 2.0: Roadmap and Directions. Well, the presentation doesn’t work… and it’s also with frames…

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O me! O vita!

Monday, December 6th, 2004 · english · italiano

O me! O life! Of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)

Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,

Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,

Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,

The question, O me! So sad, recurring – What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer

That you are here – that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

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Dead Poets’ Society

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Poems from the Dead Poets’ Society – to recall by heart!

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Juustotorttu

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004 · italiano · english

juustotorttu.jpg Pohja:

  • 150 g (12 kpl) digestiivikeksejä
  • 75 g voita

Täyte:

  • 4 dl vispikermaa
  • 200 g maustamatonta tuorejuustoa
  • 2 dl kermaviiliä
  • 4 liivatetta
  • 4 rkl sitruunamehua
  • 1 sitruuna, sen raastettu kuori
  • 1 rkl vanilliinisokeria
  • 1 dl sokeria

Pinnalle: 1 l mansikoita (tai persikoita).

Hienonna digestiivikeksit ja sekoita joukkoon sulatettu voi. Sekoita tasaiseksi. Kiinnitä irtopohjavuoan pohjan päälle muovikelmu (vuoan halkasija 20 cm). Painele keksiseos vuoan pohjalle ja renuoille mahdollisimman korkealle. Siirrä vuoka jääkaappiin.

Pane liivatteet pehmenemmään runsaseen kylmään veteen. Vaahdota kerma, raasta pestyn sitruunan kuori ja purista mehu. Kuumenna mehu ja sulata siihen vedestä puristetut liivatteet. Jäähdytä hieman.

Sekoita keskenään tuorejuusto, kermaviili, sitruunankuori, vanillinisokeri ja sokeri. Kaada joukkoon ohuena nauhana liivate-mehuseos koko ajan sekoittaen. Lisää lopuksi kermavaahto.

Kaada seos vuokan keksisvennykseen. Anna hyytyä jääkaapissa n. 4 tuntia. Irrota torttu vuoasta ohuen lasta avulla ja siirrä tarjoiluvadille. Peitä tortun pinta mansikoilla.

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