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Richard Wright: 1943 - 2008

Sad news today. Richard Wright, a musician and a founder member of Pink Floyd, has died at the age of 65 after battling cancer.

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Richard Wright smiling into my camera -- this is a photo I personally took two years ago in Gdańsk.

Freedom Fry - "Happy birthday to GNU"

The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year!

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"Happy Birthday to GNU" is a short film featuring the English humorist, actor and novelist Stephen Fry.

I was especially surprised with the GNU contributors list at the end of this film. Both Sergey and I are listed there :D

Doyle Bramhall II - Little Queen of Spades Guitar Solo - Gdynia, Poland (2008)

Eric Clapton - Layla - Gdynia, Poland (2008)

Eric Clapton - Cocaine - Gdynia, Poland (2008)
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Bought Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II DVDs. Tracklisting:

Disc One:                         Disc Two:
 1. Nightrain                      1. You Could Be Mine
 2. Mr. Brownstone                 2. Drum Solo & Guitar Solo
 3. Live and Let Die               3. Theme from "The Godfather"
 4. It's So Easy                   4. Sweet Child o' Mine
 5. Bad Obsession                  5. So Fine
 6. Attitude                       6. Rocket Queen
 7. Pretty Tied Up                 7. Move to the City
 8. Welcome to the Jungle          8. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
 9. Don't Cry                      9. Estranged
10. Double Talkin' Jive           10. Paradise City
11. Civil War
12. Wild Horses
13. Patience
14. November Rain

FOAF.Vix, first publicly introduced in August 2006, has been heavily improved in the last 4 months. FOAF.Vix is a robust visualizer and relation explorer for FOAF (Friend of a Friend) files. Its highlighted features are the following:

  • Standalone or customizable embedded web widget.
  • Additional JSON output support.
  • Localization (ca,de,el,en,eo,es,fr,ja,la,nb,pl,uk).
  • Autodiscovery support.
  • Microformats friendly (outputs hCard, hCalendar, adr, geo).
  • Extracts FOAF data from XHTML RDFa 1.0.
  • Nice-looking.
  • Simple and fast (uses 48h local caching).

In addition, the project's homepage has a new look:

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http://foaf-visualizer.gnu.org.ua/

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Current distraction: "Gary Moore - The Definitive Montreux Collection" DVD - the collection of five of Gary Moore's most memorable live performances, recorded in 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001, respectively.

Pretty URIs

I have made some URIs tweaks on my home page to conform more to, what is called, "pretty URIs", which follows these guidelines:

  • use names short and easy to type and remember
  • use names that visualize the site structure
  • make names persistent
  • hide language and mechanism implementation
  • choose simple domain name if possible

See also the classic Cool URIs don't change.

And by the way, wojciechpolak.org is now alive.
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And it wasn't only a rumor... Four years later, Blade Runner: Final Cut (Special Edition) DVD has been released! With restored, remastered, and extended scenes, added lines, new and cleaner special effects, new 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio, commentaries, and a feature-length authoritative documentary "Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner".

[image] GNU Anubis 4.1 is out!

Here is the official annoucement, and following is the list of user-visible changes in this release:

  • The package is licensed under GPL version 3
  • New working mode: MDA
  • The != (``not match'') operator is implemented.
  • Added concatenation operator.
  • With guile support enabled, Guile version 1.8.0 or later is required.
  • Fixed handling of regular expressions.
  • Got rid of arbitrary-sized buffers. All memory is being allocated on request.
  • Process main configuration file no matter was the client recognized or not.
  • Errors in Guile scripts are catched and displayed early. In previous versions they could cause aborting the subprocess.
  • Support for GPGME 1.0.2
  • Fixed minor bug in handling identd responses.
  • Fixed SIGCHLD handling.
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Bought David Gilmour's superb double DVD, Remember That Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall. Tracklisting:

 1. Speak to Me
 2. Breathe
 3. Time
 4. Breathe (Reprise)
 5. Castellorizon
 6. On an Island
 7. The Blue
 8. Red Sky at Night
 9. This Heaven
10. Then I Close My Eyes
11. Smile
12. Take a Breath
13. A Pocketful of Stones
14. Where We Start
15. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
16. Fat Old Sun
17. Coming Back to Life
18. High Hopes
19. Echoes
20. Wish You Were Here
21. Find the Cost of Freedom
22. Arnold Layne
23. Comfortably Numb