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EU 2010, a monster cuts off a dog’s legs

Vidul — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:47:46 +0000

Several days ago a dog named Mima lost her legs just because a man living in the next house wanted to cut them off with an ax. This is happening in the town of Drianovo, Bulgaria. You can watch the official news here. The penalty for this person (in the worst case): up to 500 €.

Mima will stay down from now on. Is this the EU justice?

Jojo is resting

Vidul — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:27:43 +0000

Smoking Kills

Vidul — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:30:00 +0000

Cigarettes can expose you to a great danger due to a little know behavioural feature.
Imagine the way that each cigarette has – long, boring, lonely. So it’s very natural for a cigarette to become talkative once you free it from the box. And here comes the catch – you begin to socialize with the cigarettes. Which in turn makes you addicted, but even worse – this habit can peril your cosy existence to the point this person has reached:

Educate Yourself

Vidul — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:04:13 +0000

http://educate-yourself.org

Projects’ Hosting

Vidul — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:18:02 +0000

Why Assembla free plan:

Subversion Hosting with Integrated Tickets
Trac and Subversion Hosting
Team Collaboration
Subversion Repository
Git with Integrated Tickets

P.S. If you are like me - spitting on GIT on a daily basis - Mercurial is included in the other plans.

Christmas names

Vidul — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:15:27 +0000

>>>from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn
 
>>>wn.synsets('Christmas')[0].lemma_names
 
['Christmas', 'Christmastide', 'Christmastime', 'Yule', 'Yuletide', 'Noel']

the actual meaning of “Merry Christmas”

Vidul — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:01:55 +0000

import re
 
greeting = "Merry Christmas"
 
greeting_list = map(chr, [ord(i) - len(greeting) - 1 for i in greeting])
greeting_list = set(filter(lambda x: re.match('[a-z]|[A-Z]', x), greeting_list))
 
# greeting_list is set(['c', 'b', 'd', 'i', 'Q', 'U', 'Y', 'X'])
# the 1st 3 elements are not clear to me: c,b,d
# 'i' means 'I', 'Q' means 'question', 'U' means 'you', 'Y' means 'why', 'X' means 'Christmas'
# which makes the compound: 'I question you - why Christmas?'

Right?

Code refactoring

Vidul — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:40:00 +0000

An example (The Bible, Genesis 1)

1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

…

4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

… and God saw that it was good.

… and God saw that it was good.

and so on …

Jojo (my cat)

Vidul — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:55:00 +0000

Store Init Failed – Engine Init() Failed

Vidul — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:18:00 +0000

This nice post describes the fix for Opera email error.
On UNIX/Linux OS you can achieve the same effect with the following command:
pkill -9 opera
Then start Opera and everything should be fine.