Trinitum http://trinitum.org/wp Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 15 May 2012 17:16:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 A point on a map http://trinitum.org/wp/a-point-on-a-map http://trinitum.org/wp/a-point-on-a-map#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 17:16:26 +0000 zwon http://trinitum.org/wp/?p=668 Three and a half years ago while playing with maps on my then new Nokia 5800 I marked McDonald’s somewhere on another side of the planet. Last month I ate double quarter pounder there, it wasn’t that far after all.

McDonald's

I don’t use Nokia anymore, it was replaced by HTC Desire with Android. Google maps are a way better comparing to Nokia’s, but Nokia had one big advantage — offline maps. Before going to Wellington I looked if I could find something new and superior to OruxMaps I used before. To my surprise I found that OpenStreetMap provides maps of a better quality than Google (they have walking tracks, and that is very useful in Wellington), and there’s also OsmAnd application for Android that allows you download maps for offline use.

]]> http://trinitum.org/wp/a-point-on-a-map/feed 0 CyanogenMod http://trinitum.org/wp/cyanogenmod http://trinitum.org/wp/cyanogenmod#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 10:39:04 +0000 zwon http://trinitum.org/wp/?p=663 Installed CyanogenMod onto my HTC Desire. It feels like a new phone now, and it takes less memory, so I was able to install some additional applications. The only problem so far is that I have lost handwritten Chinese input, which is a great feature of HTC.

]]> http://trinitum.org/wp/cyanogenmod/feed 0 Xubuntu countdown http://trinitum.org/wp/ubuntu_cowntdown http://trinitum.org/wp/ubuntu_cowntdown#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:10:50 +0000 zwon http://trinitum.org/wp/?p=70
Countdown to Xubuntu 12.04
 ]]> http://trinitum.org/wp/ubuntu_cowntdown/feed 0 RedisDB 1.03 http://trinitum.org/wp/redisdb-1-03 http://trinitum.org/wp/redisdb-1-03#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:20:15 +0000 zwon http://trinitum.org/wp/?p=649 Just uploaded RedisDB-1.03 to CPAN. In this version I extracted parser code into a separate module and cleaned it up a bit, I have in plans writing XS version of the parser. Another significant change is that I dropped Module::Install and switched to plain ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The size of the distribution almost halved as a result.

]]> http://trinitum.org/wp/redisdb-1-03/feed 0 Singapore Post http://trinitum.org/wp/singapore-post http://trinitum.org/wp/singapore-post#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:42:37 +0000 zwon http://trinitum.org/wp/?p=645 As practice shows, it takes about a week to deliver letter in Singapore. Today I got long awaited one from ICA — about half an hour on bus from my home, don’t know why it took it so long. Yellow envelope with “PLEASE DO NOT BEND” written in big bold letters on the front side. And it is bent.

]]> http://trinitum.org/wp/singapore-post/feed 0 IELTS http://trinitum.org/wp/ielts http://trinitum.org/wp/ielts#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:45:48 +0000 zwon http://trinitum.org/wp/?p=637 Got my IELTS result today. Overall 7.5 which is not bad, though I got just 5.5 for speaking. I think I could do speaking better, but it was next day after my wife gave birth to our son, so I didn’t concentrate much on the test. Maybe I will take it again a couple of months later.

]]> http://trinitum.org/wp/ielts/feed 0 Son http://trinitum.org/wp/son http://trinitum.org/wp/son#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:44:26 +0000 zwon http://trinitum.org/wp/?p=634 Last week my wife gave birth to our son. We’ve named him Yan.

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