Gnarls Barkley: who's going to save my soul now?

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I got some bad news this morning
Which in turn made my day
When this someone spoke I listened
All of a sudden, has less and less to say
Ohhhhhh how could this be?
All this time, I've lived vicariously
Who's gonna save my soul now?
Who's gonna save my soul now?
How will my story ever be tollllld now?
How will my story be tollllld now?

Made me feel like somebody
Hmmm, like somebody else
Although he was imitated often
It felt like I was bein myself
Is it a shame that someone else's song
Was totally and completely dependant on
Who's gonna save my soul now?
Who's gonna save my soul now?
I wonder if I'll live to grow old now
Gettin high cause I feel so lowwwww down

And maybe it's a little selfish
All I have is the memory
Yet I never stopped to wonder-ahhhhh
Was it possible you were hurtin worse than me
Still my hunger turns to greeeeed
Cause what about what I neeeeeed?!
And OHHHH~! Who's gonna save my soul now?
Who's gonna save my soul now?
Ohhhh I know I'm out of control now
Oooh-oooh, tired enough to lay my own soul down

holiday pics

Being slightly more clued up on these newfangled technologies, Shahin already has a facebook account and has discovered the joys of microblogging (twitting, for the youngsters amongst us). Me, I'm stuck in time, still editing text files with emacs. Here are some of the pictures she has published:

• Bangkok
  
• Hanoi
• Halong Bay and Cat Ba Island
  
• Cat Bs Island and Halong Bay 2
  

Hope these links work for y'all.

Afrobasket: Good start!

Well it seems we cleared everyone out of our path, including our main rivals Nigeria. However, the game was very tight, and if we do meet them again in the finals, the result may be very different...

Angola x Nigeria. (C) fiba.com.

One negative note for the afrobasket though. As it was with Angola, its extremely difficult to know what is going on. There are no TV stations in the UK showing any games at all (or even the highlights!), the website provides scarce information (would it be so hard to have web-highlights - if webcasting whole games is too hard?) and to top it all, when you type "Afrobasket 2009", Google Ajax's cleverness converts it to "Eurobasket 2009". You gotta be a real fan, basically. I know Fiba in general is not that great, but when I look at NBA's website I cannot help but wonder how hard it would be to provide all that content with Open Source and Free Software (drupal comes to mind).

Manu Chao: Helno est mort

NP: Helno est mort

Au clair de la lune mon ami Helno
prete moi ta plume
pour t'ecrire un mot
ta chandelle est morte je n'ai plus de feu
ouvre moi ta porte pour l'amour de dieu.

Au clair de la lune mon ami Helno
prete moi ta plume
pour t'ecrire un mot.

Helno est mort une fois encore il est sorti après minuit
helno est mort helno est mort 100.000 remords

helno est mort une fois de trop il est partie au paradis
helno est mort helno est mort 100.000 remords

Au clair de la lune mon ami Helno
prete moi ta plume
pour t'ecrire un mot
ta chandelle est morte je n'ai plus de feu
ouvre moi ta porte pour l'amour de dieu.

helno est mort une fois de trop dans les journaux
ya sa photo
helno est mort helno est mort 100.000 remords

helno est mort une fois de trop dans les bistros il a pécho
helno est mort helno est mort 100.000 remords

Au clair de la lune mon ami Helno
prete moi ta plume
pour t'ecrire un mot
ta chandelle est morte je n'ai plus de feu
ouvre moi ta porte pour l'amour de dieu.

helno est mort une fois de trop dans les journaux
ya sa photo
helno est mort helno est mort 100.000 remords

helno est mort une fois de trop dans les bistros il a pécho
helno est mort helno est mort 100.000 remords

helno est mort une fois encore il est sortie après minuit
helno est mort helno est mort 100.000 remords

helno est mort une fois de trop il est partie au paradis
helno est mort helno est mort 100.000 remords

Don't wanna lose nobody don't wanna lose nobody
don't wanna lose nobody...

Using boost svn with cmake

This post was created in the interest of saving someone else's sanity. If for some absolutely insane reason you decide to use boost's trunk from your shinny new cmakefile - and thus have a need to negotiate your way through FindBoost - all you need to do is:

• Make sure you created a symlink for the include directory. By default boost puts its includes under boost-X.YY (e.g. boost-1.39). Just ln -s boost-1_39/boost boost and away you go. Not sure how things work on Win32, but if you need to symlink remember: junction.exe is your friend.
  
• Set BOOST_ROOT and only BOOST_ROOT. When things fail to work you may be lured into thinking that artifacts such as Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS or Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS or others of such ilk (BOOST_LIBRARY_DIRS, BOST_LIBRARYDIRS, etc.) may actually help you. How wrong you are. All you need is to get BOOST_ROOT right. To do so, simply point it to the top level directory where you installed boost. For instance, I've placed boost under ~/local. Your BOOST_ROOT is set correctly when ${BOOST_ROOT}/include/boost and ${BOOST_ROOT}/lib exist.

So the final work of art looks like so (pray notice the capitalization!!):

set(BOOST_ROOT /home/marco/local)
find_package(Boost 1.36 REQUIRED COMPONENTS system thread serialization filesystem)
...
include_directories(${INCLUDE_DIR} ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})
...
target_link_libraries(${YOUR_BINARY} ${Boost_LIBRARIES})

That simple. Of course, one must not forget to change this before giving this to anyone else - you should be checking the regular directories where boost gets installed.

Bratislava

Central square in Bratislava, Slovakia. A rather quiet city.

Santos FC beats Al-Ahly!

A most unexpected result, particuarly after the trashing Santos had on the first leg (3-0). Somehow, the Santos FC boys managed to pick themselves up and show their skills to Angola's new national coach. Hopefully Manuel Jose was suitably impressed with the talents from Girabola, considering the blunders he's already made in the few days ahead of the team...

Santos FC - Al-Ahly. Source: CAF.