Sun clock

Today I have visited the biggest sun clock in Europe, even though some say it might be the biggest (one-piece) sun clock in the world. It is possible!!!

It was built in 2010 and It is just an hour trip away from my house (by car) but I had never been there until today. Well it is at least a very curious thing and worth visiting in my opinion.

I hope you like the pics.

Scrobbling in the free world.

Thanks to retrospectacus' time and great Debian skills and savoir-faire we can now scrobble through libre.fm which means that we can share the music we love and listen to with everyone else in the whole world.

Thank you, you rock (and roll) ;-)

'pharc wiki' and 'pharc in action' screenshots

This afternoon I have finished pharc's wiki. It is a work in progress but for the time being it is ready for publishing. You can find it here:

Pharc wiki

Perhaps the only thing that is missing there is a series of screenshots showing how pharc works. I'll upload them here first.

First pharc checks to make sure that the working directory exists, otherwise it exits.

Second if the Archive already exists pharc quits to avoid overwriting files.

If there are no posts to archive, it exits.

And finally if successful:

After it's done, if pharc suspects that something didn't go as expected it will print:

~$ Maybe unsuccessful. Please check it out. If things broke badly there is a backup of your gophermap --> gophermap~


You can see the results of pharc in my gopher hole:

gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/chals/phlog

or browse it on the web through a proxy:

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.litegopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/chals/phlog

Birthday calendar 2012

It has almost taken half a year to complete but now it is finished, as of Friday.

Happy couple

Easter Monday 2012

On Easter Monday we celebrate the equivalent of the Easter Bunny and Eggs thing in the region where I live.

We call it "Mona's day", the mona being a typical cake we prepare for the occasion. Here there's a picture of this year's.

Git on Dropbox

The idea had been running round in my mind for some time. I move from one computer to the other all the time. Usually up to four different machines in the same day. I can never know or be sure of where I'm gonna be when I need to make a commit to one of the five git repositories I work with.

Ideally I should have all my information centralised in just one single place. This makes it easier to work with certain types of files, but it also makes it easier to have security issues and/or risk of data loss (even if you backup on a regular basis you are never ready for a hard disk crash or any other undesirable occurrence).

So as you can guess I used to have several clones of the repositories and I had to pull several times to keep them up-to-date. Not very handy :-(

I read that some people used their Dropbox folder to have git repositories. And well, as you can imagine I just had to try it... :-)

So far I have just moved my blog's git: chals.branchable.com I made a commit from my laptop and now I'm writing this post and about to commit from my desktop. If it works fine, I'll move all the other repos.

Fingers crossed...and push! :-P