Transport-r Originally uploaded by Ahmed Zahid It's good to start a sunday by finding wonderful picture in your contact's photo stream. Here, Ahmed Zahid is sharing again yet another wonderful sea-themed shot. I like the 3 three mooring lines that leads the eye to boat. I like its curves, it

It looks like it's time to ditch my pie charts as there is a new trend in town: square blocks of colours

Ars Technica has an excellent write-up about the evolution of KHTML, an open-source web browser layout engine. The story is fascinating as it talks about the forking of the project which is a normal occurrence in the open source world. Also revealed is the tumultuous relationship between the open source

In April I posted here about Life expressed as a series of pie-charts. Many metrics were probably missing but Xkcd.org has contributing to one:

Torrential rains poured in England yesterday. London was not spared as seen in these images. Soon visiting London will look like that.

I wanted to test a captcha plugin for Wordpress. My host provider has a php compiled with GD, but I wanted to test it locally on my computer. Although php 4.4.4 is installed by default on Mac OS X 10.4.10, for some obscure reasons it's not

I want this shirt when traveling the south of Spain :-D _ _ _Ropa USB con ventiladores: para andar fresquito este verano: " _ Esta ropa alimentada mediante USB presume de un par de ventiladores localizados detrás de la camisa que aspiran el aire desde fuera enfriándolo. Mantienen a raya el olor del

A compilation of alternative accommodation, trendy because labelled as "green". I actually like the Loft Cube (too easy to mispronounce as 'Love Cube') , and if installed on the rooftop of a London building, the views from all side must be amazing and I quite see myself in such

[an english summer in trafalgar square] Originally uploaded by [windscreen fly] As many people pointed at already, the British summer has started. Expect a season of rain with spells of sun from time to time to prevent boredom for the part of the population who is not undergoing the summer

It's the first time I come across this catalog of testing pitfalls. It's amazing, as I can associate almost all of them to my own errors or to other's work. It's very useful to put a descriptive semi-humourous name for each of these as facilitate their teaching and our ability

Hardbrucke - Zurich Originally uploaded by Toni_V What electric ambience here in this gorgeous festival of light. It looks like the cockpit of an x-fighter jumping into hyper-space! I also like the details in the rear-view mirrors. Very cool shot.

I use vim as my text editor. Practicing TDD for creating perl applications usually imply the following workflow: the perl code (.pm) and the test code (.t) open in the same terminal view where the vim window is split into two horizontal halves. That's on my left display. On the

Kangaroo Men Tryptich Originally uploaded by Rija 2.0. I've spent Sunday afternoon in Little Venice taking photos with a friend. While we were having fun around the Paddington basin, these two men came past us chit chatting with each other and moving themselves smoothly. But what they had on

Each time I've walked past the Cutty Sark, I wanted to visit inside. I've always deferred it to later as It never managed to reach the top of my prioritized to-do list. I hope I'm not going to regret it. _ Blaze ravages historic Cutty Sark: "A fire which seriously

Pulling the Net Originally uploaded by T Glow. It's good to wake up in the morning and find wonderful shots like this one in my Flickr contacts' photos stream. The gorgeous sunset makes an apparently everyday task quite glamorous. Their silhouettes in movement is well captured. I also like the

This article reported by Slashdot demonstrates that William Gibson's Cyberspace is less and less sci-fi and more and more reality: Big corporations creating their own virtual worlds is the first step. Interconnecting them all through Second Life and Croquet is the next one. Then the troubles begins when World Of

Curtis Poe has written an article on ONLamp titled "TAP vs XML". TAP (Test Anything Protocol) is a specification for the test report format as generated by Test::More and family in perl. Very popular in the perl world, TAP is language agnostic and you can find test

Xkcd is at it again and produced an imaginative map of online communities: When you hover the original small version on XKCD, you've got a nice comment from the author.

Tejado en la Font del Gat Originally uploaded by * No. Pip, no!!!. Stunning photo coming from a Flickr contact. It makes me want to come back there again. I miss Barcelona.

_ UK's CIS Solar Tower garners 390-kilowatts from the sun: " Filed under: Misc. Gadgets We're not entirely sure if Manchester's CIS Solar Tower will be the world's grandest solar tower, but in terms of buildings have moved beyond the drawing board, it definitely packs a punch. Reportedly, the flaky construction

Interesting story, Boing Boing is reporting here. I wonder though how they can ascertain that it is (was) the oldest business out there. There must be some medieval originated trades still in business in the old cities of Europe. World's oldest business ends 1,428-year run: "Mark Frauenfelder: A

This month has been rich in news/articles about solar technology in the blogosphere. Below are two more links Sliver 3D solar cells

TREE Originally uploaded by T Glow. Good Morning, It's Friday today, and this work of art just stood up among my contacts' list of photos on Flickr. So beautiful, it's good to start a day that way.

That's great news for renewable energy! Solar Power-Cell Breakthrough:_ "An anonymous reader writes 'Researchers from the Nanomaterials Research Centre at Massey University in New Zealand have developed synthetic dyes that can be used to generate electricity at one tenth of the cost of current silicon-based solar panels. These photosynthesis-like

At lunchtime today, we were discussing about the trouble a colleague had to get a builder to install/repair a sceptic tank in a house in France, troubles due to language barrier. The colleague was advised to ask me ... to be a translator. For one moment I thought it was