Garoo
My name is Cédric Bozzi and this is my blog. Well… mostly, this is a rerun of all my tweets and the photos I publish on Instagram, but sometimes there might be an actual article or two.
I make websites and iPhone apps, try my best to own one of every item in Apple’s current product lineup, spend my entire life on the internet, and am looking for a flat in Paris.
See also: my apps; contact form.
Sur Twitter : @garoo, @ff00aa and @bewarethefrog — plus @garoodotnet which notifies of new articles on this blog.
30 jun. 2004
Dashboard vs. Konfabulator. HTML widgets, sounds promising.
Really Slick Screensavers. Imagine that on a triple display: classy.
29 jun.
I tell myself I should wait until after the moving to decide whether to jump out the window, but six weeks are too long. Plus we’ll be at the first floor there.
I feel like getting into Visual Studio .NET and programming a clone of Dashboard + Exposé + the dock, all at once with a few additional functions.
Firefox 0.9.1. I did say it wasn’t ready.
“Smart” digital zoom. I never understood why all digicams didn’t work that way.
I saw this picture in my TV magazine, and was shocked: shouldn’t he be more fit?
Looks like nobody realizes that the great breakthrough in Dashboard is that everything appears and disappears with a hotkey, à la Exposé.
Dogville
If someone had told me I’d find a Lars von Trier movie so great, I wouldn’t have believed it. Of course, it starred Nicole Kidman, but he had managed to make an unbearable melodramatic piece of crap with Björk, so everything could still be feared.
Now what should be feared is what loving this movie says about me and the state of mind I’m in these days. I like to think there was a time when I wasn’t like that, I had some hope, almost even some faith in the human species — at least every other day. Now all I can convince myself with every other day is that maybe, some day, I’ll manage to find hope again.
What a pity that happy ending only happens in the movies.
Rocket Mania. I don’t like Java, but it’s worth it.
28 jun.
Ah, Dogville is on tonight. I feel I’m gonna regret not having gone out.
Dashboard. Can’t wait for Windows clones to copy this obvious functionality.
Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ? Tout un film pour une bonne vanne.
Sociolotron. Seems… interesting.
Le site de la RATP progresse tous les jours, le plan de métro interactif n’est pas mal fait.
Guys. All crazy. But each in a different way. For variety.
27 jun.
It’s apalling how people start stinking in Paris as soon as temperatures rise a bit. And, each time I make this mental observation, I’m scared: what if I was just as stinky as them? I’m clean enough, I put on deodorant, but what if it wasn’t enough? What if the only reason why I don’t fin myself smelly was that nobody can ever realize how smelly they really are?
But then, after a few seconds, I remember that it isn’t so much of a risk. I wake up at 4pm, shower at 8pm and get out an hour or two later, so I shouldn’t have to worry too much.
But, still… how do all those other people do? How can they stand themselves? And how can they not all be single, with body odors like these?!
Ah ben oui, c’est sûr, vu comme ça.
Il n’y a pas de problèmes, il n’y a que des solutions.
Pour ceux que ça intéresse : gayattitude est en panne à cause d’un problème de renouvellement du nom de domaine, et ça devrait donc se régler d’ici un jour ou deux, comme tous les problèmes de nom de domaine.
Le site est accessible en attendant sur gay-attitude.org, mais comme il y a beaucoup de liens à l’intérieur qui renvoient sur gayattitude.com (notamment les journaux), tout n’est pas accessible.
Notez que, si vous êtes vraiment, vraiment en manque de gayattitude, en attendant que ça revienne vous pouvez toujours ouvrir le fichier c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts et rajouter les lignes :
213.186.37.180 www.gayattitude.com
213.186.37.180 journal.gayattitude.com
213.186.37.180 perso.gayattitude.com
26 jun.
TF1 ouvre presque sur la Gay Pride, France 2 commence par dix minutes de foot. Cherchez l’erreur.
25 jun.
Avec ça, je n’ai plus dans mes bookmarks que deux blogs sans RSS. Qui offre un hébergement Blogspot à PaCa Kohler ?
Cameraphone postcard. Better have a real good cameraphone then.
Gayattitude se met au RSS. Mais je ne suis pas sûr de la validité des fils. (Formats de merde.)
Oh. Mais… Je n’arriverai jamais à être debout pour la Gay Pride !
www.garoo.net — version 1868.0
It’s more graphical, more legible and prettier, all at the same time.
Based on a layout that’s been refused by the clients I’m supposed to be working for these days. (The version I offered them wasn’t dark. Nor pink. Not even table-based either. But this is my home, so I had to adapt accordingly.)
It’s lacking some greys, though, isn’t it? Feels weird.
24 jun.
Merde, c’est la nuit gay sur Canal+. Alors que j’avais un peu presque envie de sortir.
Will Smith on I, Robot. Maybe the movie won’t be crap after all. Or maybe he’s just full of it.
Videoblogging. J’ai la bande passante illimitée, alors pourquoi pas ?
23 jun.
C’est ce weekend ?! J’ai l’impression de n’avoir jamais aussi peu entendu parler d’une Gay Pride — trois jours avant !
Peut-être parce que l’actualité est tellement chargée en ce moment, entre le mariage de Bègles, la spécialisation de M6 dans la real-TV gay, le nombre incroyable de projets de Mylène, ou l’hypocrisie écoeurante du gouvernement Raffarin. Alors, dans tout ça, la Gay Pride… c’est tous les ans. Mais ce n’est quand même pas une raison pour qu’aucun pédéblogueur n’en parle, si ? C’est dans trois jours !
Au fait, pas de soirée gratuite chez les forains des Tuileries, cette année ? D’accord, l’année dernière, les forains étaient désagréables, il y avait beaucoup trop de monde et j’ai été malade la moitié de la soirée, mais c’était quand même sympa d’y avoir été. Et puis c’était gratuit. Une mauvaise crêpe gratuite et une mini-glace gratuite, avec des tours de manège gratuits, c’était toujours ça de pris. En plus, si je n’avais pas été malade, je ne serais peut-être pas reparti seul !
Si comme moi vous sautez systématiquement la page Arte dans le programme télé, vous ne savez pas qu’ils repassent Absolutely Fabulous.
Mais vous ne ratez rien.
C’est en VF.
Putain, Arte, merde, quoi.
Faudrait que je sorte. Faudrait que je sorte. Pour faire le plein de Paris et le vide de… Bref, faudrait que je sorte.
Si je me retrouve à Avranches, je vais m’en vouloir de ne pas avoir couché avec tous les parisiens de DialH avant.
22 jun.
Homophobes en toutes lettres. (Also available as wallpapers.)
Because I’m not getting tired of it, every time I see the picture I laugh inside, and it just deserves more than a passing mention in the minilog.
Republicans for Voldemort, available on T-shirts, messenger bags and bumper stickers.
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers dans Bend It Like Beckham — en VO. Bouuuuhhhhhhhh. Bouh, putain, bouh, bouh, bouh et bouh, merde.
21 jun.
Glass-house public toilet. Oh. My. God. Creepy creepy creepy. And if you light up the inside at night, doesn’t the one-way glass get reversed?
On est le 21 juin, et on rend les clés début août.
On est le 21 juin, et je n’ai aucune envie de m’occuper du calendrier de juillet.
On est le 21 juin, et je n’ai utilisé ma Carte Orange qu’une fois.
I want to draw like this. Or, if I can’t, to find someone who can.
Fan-art: Freaky Doll
Will Michael Moore’s Facts Check Out? (Works also for William Karel’s documentary, since the contents are the same.)
Oops. I just found out that Photoshop doesn’t naturally take several minutes to load: it’s because I have ObjectDock running. It doesn’t make any kind of sense, but I can confirm it’s true.
If I don’t find a workaround, bye bye my pretty PNG icons. That’s not good, because the taskbar is on the left edge of my desktop, and any edge is too far anyway when you’re running 3840x1024.
P.S. It also seems that ObjectDock makes games slow. (Which I never realized because I harly ever play.) I was surprised how slow Pristontale was on my high-end and -price video card; I’ll have to do some testing.
P.S. As chance would have it, it looks like ObjectDock 1.02, which was just released today1 fixes those bugs. Pristontale is much prettier in high resolution an with details at the maximum. And much more pleasant when the camera instaneously reacts to the mouse moves. Hurray for my Matrox card. (Well, except for not being able to visit There again before it closes, because the beast is so poorly programmed it only works with half a dozen different video cards.)
1: When you read it this way, it looks like a weird coincidence, the kind of sign I liked to find at a time when I was looking for some, but it isn’t. I only found out about those incompatibilities as I was looking for information about version 1.02, which wasn’t advertised anywhere on Stardock on Wincustomize.
It’s amazing how quickly you reach the end of two days of quietness, peace, and tranquility. (And depression.)
20 jun.
Dans une semaine, il neige.
I shaved. And that’s already something.
19 jun.
Can I go through the week-end without any fruits and vegetables? I’m craving for vitamins, but the supermarket is too… outside.
70-megapixel panorama webcam. Yummy.
By the way… I’ve got five GMail invitations to give out, so I’ll follow the current meme: if you feel the need to have a GMail account, and you still haven’t found a way to get one, which is a feat in itself, well… try and deserve it.
I’m not sleeping well lately. I hope it’s just because preparing a family move makes noise.
www.garoo.net — version 1867.1
There. Update. Changes. Different. A little. More to come. Probably. Sometime.
Chill Out (Flash kitty!). Viral Flash promos really are the future of music videos.
Not much of it was new, just the darkest hours of the Bush administration, condensed in one hundred minutes. Creepy.
Poor thing.
18 jun.
“DO NOT install Mozilla Thunderbird into a directory containing program files from a previous version.
” Not only this isn’t written on the main pages offering download links, but by default it installs to Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird, like the previous versions. Idiots.
Somatic. Beautiful.
There was a Japanese man who died from playing on his computer for too long, wasn’t there? I have to try.
Since I switched to RSS, I spend far, far less time on the web. But now I don’t how to keep myself busy anymore. My growing lack of interest in my blog isn’t helping. (Can a “lack” “grow”?)
In ads, “iso” stands for “in search of”. Yeah, you probably know that already, but if I don’t write it down I won’t remember.
16 jun.
Why I’m posting even less. I don’t know whether I should thank Paumé.
Damn. I failed to record the end of The Shield’s season one. No idea how I did that.
15 jun.
Mozilla Firefox 0.9. Uh, maybe it’s not quite ready yet.
14 jun.
13 jun.
Maybe it’s not a good idea to want to go out on a night when the French soccer team is playing.
J’ai rêvé de DialH, de soirée crêpes et de la famille Bruni Tedeschi. Va pas mieux.
12 jun.
C’est pas le mec de l’année, et en plus il a un gros trou dans le torse, mais je suis en manque d’affection. (Oui, d’affection.)
Ca, par contre, c’est bon. Très. Du grand Kinder. Et tant pis si ça ne ressemble que très modérément au rhinocéros qui est sur l’emballage.
C’est quoi ? De la glace fondue.
C’est bon ? Non.
Gangs of New York: “they all killed one another, and gave birth to the great New York.
” I must have missed something, or Scorsese is a Bush fan.
11 jun.
And Cyrille Thouvenin on TV, now. If at least those were sad stories.
Abilon : as functional as RSS Bandit, but with cleaner programming.
Kelly: New Darko Is Different. I’m worried.
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in Bend It Like Beckham. Wahhh.
Must Fly. (Ew.)
www.garoo.net — version 1867.0
I had been meaning for a while to make a layout like this one. I don’t know if it’s quite apparent, particularly on the home page that isn’t a total success, but it’s heavily inspired by the visual style of French channel Canal+ a few years ago.
I haven’t got the courage to reinstall the other pages right now, and it can wait, even though putting dummy, nun-fonctional links in a website menu is a big no-no — but that’s only a blog, so who cares.
When I get to rework those pages, I’ll also move stuff around on the home page, because it looks silly now.
Menu removed, homepage reorganized, but there’s still stuff to be done to improve it. Or maybe it’s just one of those layouts that won’t be staying for long. Doesn’t matter, I didn’t like the previous one at all anyway.
10 jun.
The Quest For The Rest. Belle façon de faire sa promo.
Guide des jeunes homos. (Et moi ? Pas de dédicace ?)
“Youpi”, j’ai “gagné” trois euros.
9 jun.
I had written a long post detailing how to add a cache system to WordPress and DotClear’s RSS feeds, but I lost it by closing the editor. Your loss.
Dates removed, as planned. I don’t know where to put portfolio comments anymore, but it doesn’t matter too much.
I miss my blog much less than I expected to.
8 jun.
8-bit Theatre. You can make a very good comic and not be able to draw at all.
Odd. I feel like everyone I RL-met through this blog were disappointed. It didn’t happen so much with IRC and other chats. Do blogs lie?
Did you know: The Autopen.
Mister Venezuela 2004. Uh… Mister Gay Venezuela, right? Anyway, I’m moving there. Right. Now.
7 jun.
Harry Potter alternate soundtrack. I can’t review it, but I like the idea.
Four-bed tent and campfire on the Marne river banks. In the middle of the city.
There wouldn’t be a way to disable the Win-D keyboard shortcut, would there?
6 jun.
Une gare RER A aussi champêtre, ça fait bizarre. Ca sentait la verdure, l’été, la forêt, un peu comme la noisette (mais je ne pense pas que c’était la noisette).
“la loi sur le tabagisme
” : ça m’étonnerait qu’elle s’appelle comme ça.
“suite à la loi
” : ben, ouais, si c’est interdit, c’est sûrement qu’il y a une loi qui l’interdit. Ou un règlement, ce qui revient au même.
Je ne comprends pas l’intérêt de ce message (qui est présent sous des formes similaires dans les autres gares aussi). “Il est interdit de fumer
”, point. C’est quoi, ce besoin de s’excuser en invoquant une loi de l’autorité suprême sur laquelle on n’a aucun contrôle, on n’y est pour rien et on en est bien désolés ?
Ca fait quoi, trois ans ? dix ans ? que la gare a ouvert et que les ascenseurs ne sont pas branchés.
Ce que vous n’avez pas vu à la télé. (The first — and probably illegal — gay marriage in France took place yesterday.)
About a Boy: in the 21st century, even romantic comedies are cynical. But it’s so rare for a movie to get some laughs from me.
5 jun.
J’espère qu’ils ont inventé un chocolat qui ne fond pas. Déjà que c’est très désagréable et pas pratique quand le bas du cornet a cassé et que le chocolat a coulé à l’extérieur et collé à l’emballage.
(via Christophe)
« Oui mais dans le Marais ils pourront plus dire qu’ils sont mariés, les pédés, maintenant. Comment ils vont faire pour exprimer la fidélité inaltérable avec leur homme ?
»
J’ai goûté leur glace maison à la crème fraîche. J’ai l’impression d’avoir mangé de l’huile de vidange. Je me sens sale, je sens encore le goût, pas dans la bouche, mais dans ma tête. Je suis traumatisé, j’ai perdu pour toujours le plaisir de manger.
4 jun.
Nevermind the dysfunctional Bloggerbot: Hello is pretty nice and well designed for its intended purpose.
RSS Bandit. Not very cleanly programmed (the interface lags for no reason), but the most functional of the many I tested.
I thought I had found the solution to import my Eudora mail into Opera, but it doesn’t work.
Suspicion on TV
Then it’s true she can be sublime.
Sleepless night on the net means being depressed on the next day. And I did know it.
« Il a injurié [les policiers], alors ils ont usé de la force strictement nécessaire [à coups de matraque sur la tête].
» Ah. Oui. Dit comme ça, c’est sûrement logique.
ZMatrix. It’s hardly new, but now my video card allows me to enjoy it.
Idées cadeaux
In Télérama/Sortir.
Unreal Movie Studio. Interesting concept.
3 jun.
Puisque les ParisCarnetiers s’entêtent à se saouler dans les pubs, à quand un pique-nique des pédéblogueurs ?
Si vous comptez ouvrir un compte épargne ING Direct, j’ai une enveloppe de parrainage qui (me) rapporte 75 €.
StyleXP a l’air de bien marcher. I can understand why WindowBlinds grew is less fashionable these days.
iRabbit. Excellent.
Pépère gare sa voiture (annoying, but well programmed).
Zut, j’ai oublié d’aller voir les Kinder au rayon frais.
Mmh. How about removing dates from the home page?
2 jun.
Forced to remove WindowBlinds, that’s what’s been lagging for weeks. Grr.
Moving soon, getting rid of all we can, all those memories, all our lives. Sniff.
(1) Le FN a beaucoup d’argent, ils mettent des grosses pubs partout
(2) Le Perreux est un terrain propice pour faire de la pub à Marine
(3) Ma buraliste est sympathisante FN et offre gracieusement cet espace de pub à son journal préféré
Nokia Lifeblog. Nice interface for managing your photo memories.
Airtexting. I don’t buy it. You’d need Parkinson’s to be legible.
Did you know: superglue is ideal for sutures (via Dog Soldiers).
Blip. Blip. Blip. Blip. . . Blip. . . . Blip. . . . . . . . . . . Blip.
1 jun.
Special K fruits rouges dans du lait au chocolat.
Je vais plutôt en rester aux Special K aux copeaux de chocolat, finalement.
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