Galder’s Passionate Blog

Back In Time is the name of linux tool that tries to mimic what Time Machine does for Mac. It periodically makes backups of your entire hard drive based on a set of rules such as periodicity, files to backup…etc. Although I’m still using script based backups, I welcome the creation of such tools that make it easier for average Fedora/Ubuntu/etc users to do full backups. However, Back In Time does not backup hidden files/folders by default which could cause some grief to the average linux user. Read on to find out more [...]

I’ve just upgraded to Wordpress 2.9 and one of the new features in this version is the ability to embed videos more easily. All you have to do is put the link to a site whose videos can be embed and that’s it! By default it automatically tries to embed any video that might recognise, such as youtube…etc. So, let’s try out by trying to embed my youtube videos and that way I get to promote them as well :) [...]

From time to time I buy Wired magazine which contains a great mix of science related articles. While reading September 2009’s issue, I found what is, in my humble opinion, the quote of the year and possibly one of the best quotes I’ve heard in my life. Read on to find out more…

Every year at the beginning of June, Neuchatel hosts a music festival called Festi Neuch. Having been a festival-goer for 3 years, this time I decided to volunteer and it was good fun! Read on [...]

One of the reasons I started this blog was to be able to share pictures with friends and family. Initially, I wanted to host them myself and so, started using NextGen Gallery which seemed the most suited Wordpress plugin for this task. It was all working fine but suddenly, after upgrading from Wordpress 2.6 to [...]

As always, this past December I was returning to Bilbao to celebrate Christmas with my family but this year traveling became more stressful than expected. Bearing in mind that my parent’s house is minutes away from the Bilbao airport, it makes sense for me to fly there but unfortunately there are no direct flights [...]

I simply hate websites that think they are more intelligent than me and make the wrong assumptions about my persona such as MySpace or Blogger.com.
Currently, I’m living in Neuchatel, which is a small city located in the French region of Switzerland. In case you didn’t know, Switzerland has 4 national languages: Swiss German, French, Italian [...]