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gstatic.com makes websites slow
. For the past week or so, I’m experiencing a sensible slowness in my browsing experience: recently I often don’t manage to open Google maps, and at the same time some other websites, having -theoretically- nothing whatsoever to do with … Continue reading
Fix for Macbook white screen of death. Shame on Apple!
If one day, on booting your Macbook (likely, after doing some serious modification to your hdd or filesystems), you hear the startup chime but you get an empty white screen showing no activity at all, which stays there forever, then … Continue reading
Gingerbread: Google Getting Greedier
(Or why Google starts sucking.) At the beginning of times, when Earth was created, Google was Good. They had the “do no harm” philosophy; you were totally free to use their services or not, and when using them, you weren’t … Continue reading
Fighting obesity?
[:en]I’ve been six hours packing at home, struggling with my stuff to make the suitcase comply with the airlines’ weight allowance: 20 kg. You can’t easily do with less than 20 kg of luggage for a one month holiday, and it’s … Continue reading
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Time and memory (to be children again)
Only during our childhood the hours are endless, same in length and in number; only when we still ignore their worth — or perhaps precisely because of that. Only in our childhood we’re able to maybe let an evening go … Continue reading
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Shame on Spain
. With the help of media, grudge and nescience can grow really powerful. And now, in Spain, they’re achieving their goal: presently, the main national and international news about the Pope’s visit to Madrid is not the event itself, nor Benedict XVI himself, … Continue reading
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No icons in QT apps on Xfce
. If you ever experience this problem: QT apps showing no icons in their menus when running in Xfce desktop, you can fix it issuing these commands on a console: gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons true gconftool-2 –type boolean –set … Continue reading
Happy people don't travel
. Please allow me, reader, to just put it this way, even if only for the sake of lyricism (or of marketing!): Happy people don’t travel. No doubt, that statement is an oversimplification; but it is precisely in its simplicity … Continue reading
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