Despite all the myths about nettle, I’m not going to sit on this bench.
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The Night Run
An old friend from Paris came for a visit; it was a very fortunate last minute decision! As he arrived, he noticed there was something going on – I told him about the marathon which seemed a good surprise.
Despite a shower during the evening, the weather was nice so we had some urban walk through the city without being bothered by car traffic, looked for street art, encouraged the runners and enjoyed the drums playing around everywhere. Then we had dinner at el compañero where we shared a plate of tapas with some fajitas. Later on we went back to the show, walked, idled in the parks, while talking and taking pictures and videos.
Download/view the large marathon video.
When we got back home, we talked about geek stuff until 4:30 in the morning.
A Friday evening in the city centre
During the day I met my old class mate Luc and toured him and his wife around the city. It was great! When it was done, I met by accident an old work mate whose daughter is twice as tall each time I see her ;). But this time we stopped for a drink/snack and spent some more time together than just saying “Hi, how are you? See you next time!”
In the evening, I followed Egle and her boyfriend to the city centre. There were many groups playing drum in different places in the city; that was awesome! Stopped for a drink at Konrad Cafe, watched some drums, walked around the city corniche, did some window shopping and had another drink at Banana’s. And once again, I meet some friend I haven’t seen for while, except at the supermarket when I was in a hurry; so we had another drink 😉
Video and pictures:
CFL-29 hike
Thanks to Stefanie for organizing this hiking trip. Everyone in the group was lively and joyful – once again it proved that nice people attract nice people 😉
Meetup was at the train station in Luxembourg City.
The train was so busy – I never saw so many people in a train in this country. We left the train in Colmar-Berg to follow the CFL 29 and we miserably failed right at the beginning. So we walked an extra hour because we didn’t decide to cross the Alzette river. Also, we’ve been very lucky with the weather, yay!
Pictures
Map
According to the GPS, we walked 14.72 km.
Here’s the cfl29 GPX track file.
After
The return train was so busy, we had to stay on the steps (the normal fine is three thousand Euros for blocking the way). Arrived in Luxembourg City, I rented a Veloh bike to go back home and suddenly I heard someone shouting my name. It was a old mate from high school who was visiting Luxembourg and we didn’t see each other for at least 15 years. We decided to meet on the next day. Small world 😉
Good bye Java
Since Oracle has some damn policies for distribution, it’s not possible to download it from Links or whatever to my remote server. Another story on how a company destroyed a product…
!!! dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.32 has fetch restriction turned on.
!!! This probably means that this ebuild's files must be downloaded
!!! manually. See the comments in the ebuild for more information.* Fetch failed for ‘dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.32’, Log file:
* ‘/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.32/temp/build.log’
* Package: dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.32
* Repository: gentoo
* Maintainer: java@gentoo.org
* USE: amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib source userland_GNU
* FEATURES: sandbox
* Due to Oracle no longer providing the distro-friendly DLJ bundles, the package
* has become fetch restricted again. Alternatives are switching to
* dev-java/icedtea-bin:6 or the source-based dev-java/icedtea:6
*
* Please download jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin from:
* http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-6u32-downloads-1594644.html
* and move it to /usr/portage/distfiles
Of course, if you get the the link from the Web page on your local browser, and get the file url on the remote server:
wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u32-b05/jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin
# head jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin
<html>
<head>
<title>Unauthorized Request</title>
How I fixed it: emerge -av --depclean dev-java/sun-jdk virtual/jdk virtual/jre dev-java/java-config
Why he loves Japan
People asked me “Why do you love Japan?”
Sand witch
Want a sand witch?
Haw Par Villa is worth a visit
Also known as Tiger Balm Gardens, Haw Par Villa is a garden in South-West Singapore built by the owners of Tiger Balm in 1937 and represents with its statues the Chinese mythology and legends.
It is located along Pasir Panjang Road and can be reached at Haw Par Villa MRT Station (CC25) on the Circle Line.
If it wasn’t recommended by some friends in Singapore, I wouldn’t have spent a couple of hours (which is definitely not enough) there; so I decided to share this quick and dirty post. This place is really weird and attractive: I recommend a visit to anyone curious about what the others believe in; you don’t have to believe in reincarnation yourself. And the admission is free of charge.
Since the Wikipedia page about Haw Par Villa provides more information here are the pictures!
View the entire album on my gallery (111 photos) or visit the Best of on flickr if that’s too much for you. Below is a sample.
Links:
flickr photos uploaded during second half of March 2012
Mose of these pictures have been taken in Singapore, Taiwan and some in Europe.
flickr photos uploaded during first half of March 2012
Most of these pictures were taken in Singapore and Taiwan.
