Monthly Archives: August 2010

I Feel (less) Geekier Already: Linus Torvalds

Linus Tor­valds. Geek, genius. Cre­ator of the Linux and Git. I have been enjoy­ing the fruits of his genius since I first star­ted using Ubuntu in 2008. It is amaz­ing how much has been achieved since Tor­valds first hacked together what was to be the Linux ker­nel on a machine with the fol­low­ing spe­cific­a­tions: 386, DX33, …

Wednesday, 11th August, 2010 – 2217 | By Rewarp | Posted in Geeky, People | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

SVN Mplayer Thread Gets a New Page

Due to the never-ending addi­tions to the ways to improve SVN Mplayer on this thread, it even­tu­ally expan­ded into an encyc­lo­pedic page on not just the cap­ab­il­it­ies of Mplayer, but also the ingenu­ity of the Ubuntu com­munity. How­ever, to keep track of the changes for Lucid Lynx, I had to read through every blog post …

Tuesday, 10th August, 2010 – 1818 | By Rewarp | Posted in Geeky | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Bernstein, Beethoven, and Freedom.

I love the 9th sym­phony more than any other work of art on this planet. A monu­mental saluta­tion to the pos­sib­il­it­ies of uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood, and joy. The violinist’s Pau­line Lerner recently wrote a very con­cise art­icle on Leonard Bern­stein, and his spe­cial rela­tion­ship with Beethoven’s 9th. 3rd post in a single day? Well, PZ Myers’ answer …

Monday, 9th August, 2010 – 1145 | By Rewarp | Posted in Classical | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

A Verse Against the ISA

It seems the folks back home in Pen­ang are hav­ing a lot of fun. Here is a riv­et­ing account of the recent gath­er­ing in Pen­ang which shows the police to be more con­cerned about deny­ing the rights of cit­izens to gather, rather than pro­tect­ing the cit­izens from phys­ical harm. Here is a full list of those …

Monday, 9th August, 2010 – 1122 | By Rewarp | Posted in Free Speech, Social Issues | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

This Summarises Most Meetings

Monday, 9th August, 2010 – 1025 | By Rewarp | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

What Weddings Mean to You-r Parents.

Saturday, 7th August, 2010 – 0630 | By Rewarp | Posted in Funny | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

I ♥ Debate

For the past few weeks, I have been invig­or­ated by debate. The kind of sat­is­fy­ing debate where you com­pletely anni­hil­ate your oppon­ents’ pos­i­tion because they are cre­ation­ists. So I am open­ing a new page just to keep a record of my oppon­ents’ argu­ments and their long win­ded responses, as well as my own long-winded responses. …

Thursday, 5th August, 2010 – 1741 | By Rewarp | Posted in Atheism, Site Announcements | Comments (0)