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Hi all,
this blog has been dormant for months and I am still not sure yet I will resume posting on it, but still I am planning to do a series of tweaks to its internal structure (change configurations, changing/removing some Wordpress plugins, etc).

So I would like to let you know that you should not be surprise if the next few days you see oddities, errors, and alike.

Happy new year!!!

Merry Christmas to all.

I know that this blog seems dead, but I did not forgot about it. I hope to get new material to post soon.

This is a very short and very narrowed guide, but I am sure some of you may still find it very interesting.

Today we are going to upgrade KDE to the new version 4.3.1 on Kubuntu.

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I am making this quick post to let you know that I made some update to my PGP key. The ID, fingerprint, and main e-mail address are still the same, but I revoked some subkey related to old e-mail addresses and added some subkey to new addresses.

You can find more info on the PGP key page.

Hi all,
as I mentioned on my last post, I given up (due to time constraints) on reporting daily news on the IT industry and I was going to focus on computer guides and editorials on topics that are really breaking news.

Well … I decided to start with the latter, by reporting the news that Blizzard is releasing on BlizzCon 2009 about the third expansion of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

Beware that, while those information are public, some people may consider them spoilers. If you are such kind of person it would be better if you do not continue.
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Hi all,
as you noticed I haven’t posted news for days … well, the reason is that I have been too occupied with some other stuff in real life.

Now, this yet another hiatus forced me to think what I should do with this web site. Is it worth to keep trying even if I keep ending up in hiatus? Should I close it, accepting my inability to update it daily? Well … no … to both questions.

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Another week has passed and a new bugfix updated has been released by Blizzard for World of Warcraft: Patch 3.1.1a. As usual the patch is released today to the U.S. servers and tomorrow to the E.U. servers.

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Wine 1.1.20 has been released.

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Today Canonical released Ubuntu 9.04 and the sister distribution Kubuntu 9.04.

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