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I just have to say one thing: OpenOffice as much as any other "office" program is just the worst thing that has ever happened to computers. I have never wasted so much time with any program, even Windows is more entertaining.. Today I tried to do 2 things with OpenOffice Impress (the thing to do...

So Google and Verizon want to be business buddies, I do not understand how anyone can think this is good.. . detailed official crap here.

In short this all about saying that net neu...

I have found a public transportation system worse than the Parisian RATP. In total there are more lines affected than non affected.. : ]. It's totally out of control this Underground.

These are photos of the Transport for London website..

A few years back I heard quite a few times things like "What do I need a website for ?", some would add things like "Why would I ever post photos of my last vacation, family and/or pets online ?". Today, almost everyone I know has a social network profile (orkut, friendster, myspace, facebook, t...

Some images from the OpenNight event last night..

More about King James Hyperfuck.

I just read a sad piece of technical journalism from Charles Arthur for the Guardian. I'll resume his rant; he blames p2p (file-sharing) usage for the new "no more unlimited mobile networking" policy that ap...

If you are reading this there are chances you already know how to use the Interweb, when you are given an address (url, webiste link, etc) you know how to get there the proper way. However, so many people, and I mean many many many just get it completely wrong. So I thought maybe an image could ...

I took some photos for a performance Tsuneko Taniuchi did. I'm bad at explaining so for more info visit Tsuneko Taniuchi's website.

The other day I was running some tests because it seemed that my VPN traffic was being slowed down quite a lot. One of the tests was plain FTP, that went at about 1mbyte/sec, then FTP via VPN, that seemed capped at around 200kbytes/sec. Some say "overhead because encryption", and I believed it,...

Every so often OpenLab organises an OpenNight where people can try out there work in front of an audience. The works should be produced using open source technologies. There is much creativity to be seen and heard.

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Today I notice a new bot called "turnitinbot" crawling my site and not for a new search engine.. this one is different. There is a new site called turnitin.com which sells a service to students and schools to prevent plagiarism, the idea is that students submit their work to Turnitin who then ve...