I’ve lost my ability to see my c: drive from cygwin. when I do $ cd c: or $ cd /cygdrive/c all goes ok. But if I do $ ls then it complains ecerulm@rlm-ecb4fe6cda1 /cygdrive/c $ ls ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory I found something at this forum and also here So it seems that I screwed up permission (maybe it related to some automatic windows update).

Now Fedora Core can boot from an USB drive Fedora on a Stick - O’Reilly ONLamp Blog I have a 2GB USB drive I wonder if I could install it in just 2GB or I need more.

I decided to give a try to Google Maps API and I found it pretty easy. Currently I’m looking for a jiu-jitsu school near Madrid so I decided to pinpoint all jiu-jitsu schools in a google map. I’ve got the school addresses in this page and put those directly in the page using the geocoder api. Here’s the result, you can see all the code using View Source in the browser menu it’s all embedded javascript.

Wordpress plugins that I’m currently using AutoMeta – Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for WordPress Google Analyticator – for use with Google analytics Feedburner Feed Replacement – provides integration with feedburner.com PJW Mime Config – allows to change mime-types associated with file-extensions Social Bookmarks Bar – adds a bar to each post to submit to digg, del.icio.us, etc Google Sitemaps – integrates with google sitemaps

Interesting project Welcome to Eclipse on Swing

If you host your wordpress blog and want to make it more searchable from google this wordpress plugin Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress v2 Final creates sitemaps automatically. Works for WP 2.0.4.

I didn’t know that there is a replacement for log4j that backed up by the founder of log4j. Logback Main Site - Logback Site

If you are new to Eclipse Plugin Development like me, you must now that in the Eclipsepedia you can find very useful code snippets like How to write to the eclipse console view from a plugin. The best way to find information there is to use google query like site:wiki.eclipse.org console write

Wow! I noticed the Import tab in the Wordpress admin tool and I found that is possible to import your old blog from blogger.com (among others). It awesome! works perfectly! All my previous post are now in Wordpress.

Continuing with my previous posts 1,2 …. I wrote a little script that I run every day via Windows Scheduled tasks. The script adjust the volume and EQ setting of all the podcasts and audiobooks everyday. I find hard to listen to podcast and audiobooks at the gym (that’s were I listen to podcasts and audiobooks) at the standard volume so I like to adjust the volume +100% and change the EQ setting to “Spoken word”.