Singing your way to Parliament

Here is a "customized" version of a political ad that I made based on the real one of a guy running in the area where I live right now. I made it as a joke, I don't endorse the guy at all. In fact, I think that I would advise anyone having this guy on the ballot, to vote whomever else.

The candidate is a singer part of a band which had it's heyday around the beginning of the previous decade. His slogan is "Facts not words", but I thought "Rhymes, not words" is more appropriate.

There are two other jokes in here, I hope my Romanian readers will appreciate them.

Hilarious story by Moran Cerf

This was a ton of fun

This past saturday I passed by this man in the park. He was calling and feeding some squirrels.



He was kind enough to give me some walnuts to call the squirrels myself. He did this without even me asking.



It was such a wonderful experience for me, especially since the last squirrel gently touched my index finger while trying to get the walnut from my hand. Its paw was so cold and it felt very smooth and gentile.

I don't know when, but I will definitely go with a bag of walnuts of my own and spend some time there.

signing packages heads-up

When trying to sign some Debian packages fails, you might think that temporally changing LANG to find similar errors on the web is a good idea.

But when you see that the expired key is not the default one and you made sure that the GPG agent environment info is correct, while signing still fails, you might start to consider that bad rendering of the "s comma below" character in your name might be worth taking into account.


gpg: skipped "Eddy Petrișor ": secret key not available


Also, remembering that LC_MESSAGES=C is the right way to have English messages, while preserving all the rest of the localization info, is also useful.

obscene VNC

I guess obscenity wasn't thought of in xvnc4viewer. Feel free to submit a BR.