nightmarish

I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind

Musselicious

In order to keep polluting the Planets (the aggregators, not the heavenly bodies), here is yet another pasta dish: Spaghetti with Mussels. The tomate sauce, unfortunately not really visible in the picture, goes along very well with the mussels, especially - if you are not in hurry - when cooked slowly. 1 kg of mussels should be enough for 2 portions, unless you successfully make it extremely delicious :-)

Paccherimania

Here is another of my crime to Italian-style dish. Taste fresh and delicious (at least for me), suitable for vegetarians, and perfect for candle-light dinner.

Just like before, here I mixed it with non-Italian ingredients. As the filling for paccheri (you can also use the bigger canneloni), just put vegetables of your choice, chopped to fit the tube size. For non-vegetarians, you may add e.g. tuna slices. The new thing here is that I stuffed also very tasty tempe, fried and cut into small pieces. As usual, make tomato sauce with fresh tomatoes. Cover the paccheri with the sauce and put it in the oven, heat up to 200 C for quarter an hour. For cheese-lovers, add some parmesan. In the mean time, cut eggplant (yes, eggplant!) in lengths, leave the skin, and then fry the pieces in hot oil (with onions, ginger, chili, and others). Add garlic and lots of pepper, it makes the taste really fantastic. When it's ready, pour over some leftover of the tomate sauce, also add some olives and basil.

Finally serve your paccheri with the eggplant. You'll get different taste mixed together: sweet, hot, salty. Buon appetito!

Kyrill, Lancelot

Kyrill storm, with a wind gust record speed of 191 km/h and its catasthrophic effects, seems to be over. But now everyone is preparing for the successor: Lancelot.

In case you don't know yet, these names are determined through sponsorship. If you are ready to shell out 199 euros, then you can decide the name of the next (alphabetically sorted) low and high-pressures. But you'd better be fast, many alphabets are taken already. And not to mention that there is no guarantee such pressures will ever become widely-known storms.

"Ten thousand thundering typhoons..."

wrap-up

One of my failure until 2006 is this one:

I did not managed to release it, so at least I post the screenshot :-)

The full story/download/editor/code will be in 2007, or rather When It's Done (tm).

unkrazification continues

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome KFormula, the third KOffice application (after KSpread and KPlato) that is not krazy anymore!

Almond Cookies

Warsaw Almond Cookies: taste fantastic and need only eggs, sugar, almond and two hours of baking (see the recipe). Use couverture chocolate to decorate. Of course, you still live under the rock if you can't find our beloved three letters in the picture.

Surprisingly, Google does not give anything. Is there any official English name for that? I know only Warschauer Mandelgebäck.

not krazy is cool

After KSpread, KPlato - KOffice's project management tool - becomes the second non-krazy KOffice application:

careful with your fortune

When Bob found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with. So one evening he went to a singles bar where he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.

Her natural beauty took his breath away. "I may look like just an ordinary man," he said as he walked up to her, "but in just a week or two my father will die, and I'll inherit 20 million dollars."

Impressed, the woman went home with him that evening.

Three days later, she became his stepmother.

 

 

 

(always from jokes4all.net)

One trained monkey to rule them all

He did it again! Not satisfied with libwpd and libwpg, Fridrich "uberdedicated" Strba started libwps (that's for Microsoft Works) integration with OpenOffice.org.

14 million bucks

This metric is debatable, there are duplicated and imported code, the result is different to sloccount and KOffice 2.0 is still in heavy development, but what Ohloh at the moment says about KOffice: it's worth USD 14,053,618 (256 Person Years) and its activity is still increasing:

Looking at the detailed statistics, I'm somehow still at 11th position. However, I must be careful, this guy is right on my tail :-)

BTW, for comparisons, KDE itself is "only" $10,750,392, Amarok is $2,405,217, Firefox is $2,173,769 and OpenOffice is at $94,036,902.

Reverse and 64

Next time your candidate claims a deep knowledge of programming, ask him/her why the following line can reverse the bits in a 8-bit byte, along with an explanation why it needs 64-bit arithmetic:

c = (c * 0x0202020202ULL & 0x010884422010ULL) % 1023;

Solution: see the complete hacks.