Do you remember, 2 days ago, when I said that I was looking for how to convert Jerome’s Keywords and Bunny’s Technorati Tags to Wordpress tags? This morning, exploring the new options of this wordpress version, a discovered an Import section, that theoretically does it automatically. I tried it, and I was happy because my tags cloud had evolved.

But now there is a new problem: posts are related to tags, but tags are not related to posts :S. So, if you click in any tag of the cloud, it will redirect you to a page with this awful message:

Not Found

Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.

So, I have an inutil tags cloud. Time to google to find a solution!

If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ve added a new section to my home page, a photo gallery. It existed since the beginning of cub3.net, but I haven’t posted a public link anywhere. At the moment, it doesn’t contain terabytes and photos, just some pictures from Scotland and about Warmachine, but I expect to enlarge it :P

On my crusade to not depend on external services, I will migrate my pictures from Photobucket to Cub3.net.

(Tonada de la cançó antiga de Batman) Nanananananananana Gooogleeeee!

Aquesta paranoia bé a que avui, mentres m’esperava en un semàfor del carrer Marina a Barcelona, m’ha passat per davant un cotxe negre amb un pal al sostre, al qual hi havia el que semblaven quatre càmeres, enfocades en totes direccions. I a la porta, hi havia un petit requadre blanc… amb el logotip de Google! Ha estat tot molt ràpid i no m’ha donat temps de fer-li una foto, però he estat buscant per internet i ja he trobat que era: explicació i foto.

Recently I upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.5.1. It had been a long time without doing it, so I was a little afraid of the problems that could appear. But, fortunately, I discovered a new plugin that helps on doing it on an assisted way, like a web-based wizard. With just a few minutes, everything (including some plugins) was updated and running smoothly. The only problem pending to solve is the magnatune browser, which I can’t load successfully. I’m working on it. But the greatest (positive) surprise was the integration of tags.
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Mireu aquest xamfrà de Barcelona:

I està així cada dia! La urbana deu fer els ulls grossos per c*ll*ns!

Després de desaparèixer de Telecinco, CQC torna aquest dimecres a la Sexta. Tinc ganes de tornar-los a veure fotent canya als polítics, que avui en dia els únics que s’hi atreveixen són els de Polònia. Espero que aquesta nova temporada no em decebi!

A topic that has attracted me these days are the codes that, someday, could replace the typical barcodes. Nowadays, barcodes are data codified on a single direction (1D), with the form of consecutive black and white lines. But its successor use 2D (width and height), increasing its capacity and complexity. Have a look at the images to understand it better.

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I have soon several tutorials about how to install GNU/Linux on a Mac, usually the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. I even know people how would buy a Mac to install a Linux on it… Why? I don’t understand them.

The advantage of Macs (and the disadvantage) is that they are sold as a complete unit, theoretically perfectly integrating the hardware and the software. The software has been optimized (theoretically) to run on a specified hardware, and viceversa. Therefore, an Apple computer always is shipped with the corresponding operating system, you cannot buy a “virgin” Mac. Then, the question is: why do you replace the Apple OS?

The simple answer is: I prefer Linux.

Ok, but if you prefer Linux… why don’t you get a laptop from another brand? Nowadays, Macs use Intel processors and other hardware components that can be found in other laptops, they have no exclusive parts. Additionally, due to the fact that it is a hardware+software product, the price is higher than on a virgin laptop of any other manufacturer.

Maybe you like Macs because they are cool? I bet that for the same price, you can get laptops also cool. No the same type of coolness, but very sweet to eyes, slim and elegant. I hope that this last sentence can be understand by more people apart from me XD.

So, with these arguments on the table… why you would install a Linux on a Mac?