add README file with my blog post

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+----------
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+For quite some time the access to recent files has been put forward in GNOME,
+it happened even more so in 3.6 with a "Recent Files" view in Files (née
+Nautilus), that makes use of a new recent files backend in gvfs.
+
+This is all very nice but my daily activities still involve a lot of command
+line usage, and I didn't find any way to mark as recents the files I receive
+via mutt, the text files I create in vim, the pictures I resize with
+ImageMagick, etc. That always bothered me at the moment I wanted to access
+those files, but then I just copied a copy of the file to a scratch directory I
+had bookmarked, and went on with my work.
+
+Until yesterday, as I finally decided to fix that, and quickly put together
+recent, a command line utility that just puts the file it gets as argument in
+the recent files list. It's very simple, uses GFile and GtkRecentManager, and
+the code is located there: recent.c. It's so simple I guess many others wrote
+something similar, but here you have, perhaps it will be useful.
+
+  -- Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:21, https://www.0d.be/2012/10/03/recent/