Archive for May, 2007

Free software again!

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Almost a year ago I was talking about free software, that is, how to be legal with your computer application licences and still not to pay anything.

So I decided to write a separate page about the free software I use in my laptop, because I know I’ll need that list to reinstall all of them the next time I break my hard disk.

Renovation again!

Monday, May 28th, 2007

This time we go for new shelves for the wardrobe in the sleeping room :)

New shelves

Is it worth it?

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I was lately wondering how worth it is for the UK to keep their own currency instead of switching to the euro. That is, apart from patriotic reasons, is it really worth it?

I’ll leave this as an open question, since I’m not expert in economy. But I’m a good nerd: so I got the currency exchange rates from 1.1.2002 to 18.5.2007 and plotted the values in euro of 1 British pound during this period:

Pound vs. Euro

Source: http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory

Update 10.7.2007: The European Central Bank has a wonderful page to plot the historical exchange rates.

Sex crimes and the Vatican

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Sex crimes and the Vatican - A BBC report on "religious" child abuse (transcript)

Forbidden future

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

I just saw on YLE1 a very good Norwegian documentary about Iran called Forbidden Future.

It was shot in between 2005 and 2006 in Tehran, and it tells the life of three persons: Ali, the singer and guitarist of the death metal band Scourge (now called ArtimotH); Sanam, a freestyle skier who has participated in international competitions; Shahram, a painter who, just during the shooting of the documentary, received a death sentence for having used naked models to do his paintings.

By now I know it has been released in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Australia. Check out if it’ll be released in your country.

The unforgettable fire

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

And if the mountains should crumble
Or disappear into the sea
Not a tear, no not I
Stay this time, stay tonight in a lie.
Ever after is a long time
And if you save your love
Save it all

Anagram

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Need of an anagram?

Unemployment in Europe

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Since I haven’t written anything since March, and the last post was a sort of long live to Europe, I decided to start to talk about European affairs in a more interesting way.

This time I’ll talk about unemployment. Here are the figures at March 2007 (if not otherwise stated), from the lower to the higher (Denmark and Holland rule, nothing to say).

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