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Loughborough @ Beijing Olympics 2008
I am living in Loughborough, UK, and I am working at Loughborough University. Loughborough is the country’s premier university for sports development, research and training, and has an unparalled record of sporting excellence.
So, where is the connection with Beijing?
Here:
“There are 55 Loughborough athletes in action at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
If you [...]
A long break, a short story …
I am back in UK, to my work place, after one month of travelling. If you are wondering what I did during this time, here is a short story. After a two weeks holiday in Maramures and Timisoara, Romania, I enjoyed some days in Keele, UK, for European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference, where I gave [...]
Registering new DNS Nameserver with Godaddy
After you have the domain from Godaddy it’t time to change the default parking option in order to put your nameservers for domain. First you need to register your new nameservers with them and only after that to change the nameservers for your domain, otherwise you will see a nice “ERROR DETECTED” message. So, here [...]
Gmail address in UK and Germany
If you are in UK or Germany it seems that it is not possible to directly get a @gmail address (when you register for a new account in the list you will see only @googlemail option) because in these countries the Gmail name is trademarked by other companies. If you really want to have @gmail [...]
Atom feed and Wordpress 2.5
It seems that the last version of Wordpress, 2.5, has some problems in parsing Atom feeds. As you can see on my blog I am also using an atom feed, for shared items from google reader. The solution was to burn a feed with feedburner and to put this feed in wordpress. It seems that [...]
Order and enjoy your Ubuntu Cola
I spent the last week in Leeds, for a conference. Leeds is a quite nice city, I like it. I took some photos, they will be available soon on my flickr page. Below are two photos with Ubuntu Cola. I don’t know if there is something between Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu Cola, but it [...]
PhotoBlog is online
Finally, I found some time to install and bring online, for you, my PhotoBlog. It is available at http://photoblog.vioan.ro. I will try to post a good photo at least two or three times per week. In the meantime, don’t forget to visit my flickr page if you like to see some nice photos.
Installing Edimax EW-7128G Wireless Lan PCI Adapter on OpenSUSE 10.3
As you saw in my previous post, I have this wireless card, so let see what I did to have the wireless connection working on my OpenSUSE box.
The card is coming with some drivers for linux, on the box is mentioned that it has support for Mac OS, Windows x64 Edition, Linux Debian, Fedora, Redhat [...]
Waiting for UBahn in Berlin
If you are wainting for UBahn and you are tired, please take a sit …
YouTube on your hard disk
If you don’t like to use your web browser to play your favorite youtube videos then you can use a nice tool, called youtubefs. From their web site:
“YoutubeFS enables you to browse your favorite Youtube videos locally on your desktop without going to the youtube website. Just create a youtube account and add videos to [...]
