31 May 2005 |
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Thanks to my satellite network’s mosaic display, I learn stuff from TV. I had always wondered why the Spanish Civil War (which is only called Guerre d’Espagne, or Spanish War, in French) wasn’t part of the history of France. Or, rather, why it was called the Spanish War — why a war that could lay the grounds for a fascist regime that’d last until 1975 right on France’s doorstep (and I can’t still quite fathom that one, either… a military dictatorship so close to my home, and to my birth date? is the Spanish language bad luck, or what?) could have only involved Spain, why nobody had stepped in. Thanks to a random well-lit interview shot in the middle of the mosaic, I finally figured it out. What, you expect me to explain? Do you really think this is the kind of blog that discusses history? Well, okay… (No, actually, I’m writing this down because I’ll have forgotten tomorrow, and by the next winter I’ll remember mentioning it and I’ll search the archive to find this post back.) <SPOILERS> So the Popular Front had just been elected on the promise of peace, and they were scared that an intervention would cause a duplicate civil war in France, or that it could even trigger a second World War (can you imagine that?). In short, the country already didn’t have any balls left, years before Germany invaded it. Oh, and Hitler dies in the end. Or does he? </SPOILERS> |
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A piece of seasonal advice: if you’re going to buy an air conditioner, don’t base your choice on the lack of noise it makes in the store. You just don’t realize how the ambient brouhaha hides the tchiling-tchilings and, more importantly, the big BANG!s every time the compressor starts and stops. Trust the decibels instead — or, better yet, the price. 150€? Yeah, right. Now all I can do is get used to it. Last night I got woken up a couple of times by the BANG!s mentioned above, with the impression that someone had just slammed my door shut (probably on their way to come and kill me, because who else than an assassin would slam my door in the middle of the night, when it’s locked shut?). Fortunately, unlike the old air conditioner I had borrowed from my parents in order to test the whole concept, this one makes a perfectly regular, smooth noise apart from the starts and stops (at least for now, but no doubt it’ll get old and clunky very soon) so I have no trouble going back to sleep. Or not — I did get awake enough to remember it afterwards. |
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30 May 2005 |
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I forgot a detail: are all Rennes guys particulary metrosexual (which is an actual possibility, considering it’s a students town), or do countryside queers usually go to the DIY/tools stores on Saturday afternoon? I can understand the dyke couple, but guys in tight t-shirts and jeans… I had eye contact with one of those (and a very well built one, but too old), but what about the others? I feel like I’ve already read a pédéblogueur’s post on the same topic, but I won’t be bothered to look for it. (Or maybe it was on my own blog. I don’t try and remember what I write.) |
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29 May 2005 |
On the one hand, that could be Lucas’s plan for the TV show that’s supposed to bridge the gap between both trilogies. On the other, I can’t quite imagine American networks, or Lucas, making a show about all the good guys being sliced and diced one after another. |
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I had seen “ginormous” around, understood the notion, and hadn’t realized it was a non-word. |
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28 May 2005 |
 Did you, too, get the “ When I saw the ad for Fruitella Light, I wondered how they could have made that — knowing the regular Fruitella, I couldn’t see how they’d make them dietetic without losing the taste. Even I can get naive sometimes.
Of course… the texture doesn’t come from sugar — it’s all in the fat. |
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So it took a promotion on air conditioners for me to travel all the way to Rennes, the closest real city. One hour on the highway, sixty minutes having nothing else to do but watch the little needle on my speed dial — do they really expect people to believe you’re better drivers when you’re bored and focusing all your attention on your dashboard? Anyway, it was as boring as expected, although just a little quicker. And I didn’t even take advantage of the trip to visit the city… after I spent one hour walking around the store to try and phone my parents who weren’t reachable anyway, then another hour trying hard to collapse the car’s damn backseat, not to mention that I hate driving around in a city with my rearview mirror blocked by a couple of air conditioners, I just wasn’t in the mood (and the smell, and the cleanliness) for a tour of gay Rennes. I did try out the rest area on the way back, but it was deserted (though, considering the poor, lonely truck driver who got his hopes up when I went to piss, I clearly got the place right). Fucking Saturday, fucking countryside. I almost felt like crying as I was visiting the local Centre Leclerc — a real hypermarket! I had forgotten what that was like! What the hell am I doing here? |
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 If I hadn’t waited to gain twenty pounds again before I started exercising, right now I’d be able to sell my body on the escort sites. But if ifs and buts… uh… something something… then I’d have a life. |
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27 May 2005 |
 Sciences et Avenir, June 2005. |
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Are the Wachowskis better game designers than filmmakers, or does it only sound good in press clippings? |
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If I were Steve Jobs, I’d be upset to death about this. Actually, I’m not Steve Jobs, and I have an iMac, and yet I am pissed off. Why do the dumbasses who design (which isn’t quite the word, considering how much work it mustn’t be) USB hubs for the Mac mini make sure they copy the form factor, the style and the material (and with mixed success at that), and then add LEDs and logos everywhere? How stupid do you have to be to think your customers will want a hub that’s assorted their mini, only without the subtlety and sobriety that characterize Apple’s, and particularly the mini’s, design? Please, don’t tell me people actually buy this crap, I don’t wanna know… |
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26 May 2005 |
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Alors, pendant toutes ces années, le petit Nxxxx Sxxxx n’était donc qu’un pantin, et ce n’étaient pas ses dents à lui qui rayaient le parquet ? Vingt ans pour passer d’un animateur-star à un jeune politicien plein d’avenir à un publiciste d’importance mondiale à même d’organiser ses congrès de campagne en 2012, c’est une carrière rondement menée, quand on a commencé tôt. Je dirais bien que ça manque de subtilité mais, non, si on en croit la couverture médiatique, ça passe comme une lettre à la poste. Est-ce que, si je suivais plus assidûment les actualités (voire les peoplités), je verrais que je ne suis pas le premier à remarquer qu’elle a comme par hasard fait sa première émission de télé en solo il y a quelques semaines ? N’empêche, c’est quand même attendrissant que quelqu’un qu’on décrit comme l’homme politique le plus ambitieux de France (enfin, en ce moment il doit être ex-aequo avec Fabius) puisse se retrouver à annuler un passage au JT parce que sa femme a fait ses valises. Avouez que vous ne vous y seriez pas attendu. (Evitez les noms propres dans les commentaires, ou ils risquent de passer à la trappe.) |
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Lucas’ idea for new Star Wars Prequel?
Where are lightsabers when you really need to chop someone’s head off? |
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25 May 2005 |
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Pick a good password, part III:
Oh, that’s all fine if you trust every site you subscribe to. I wouldn’t ever think of using the same, easily figurable, password convention on every gay chatroom, where gay webmasters and sub-webmasters and their friends are liable to know me and hence have a reason to take advantage of it (even the paranoid have real enemies — and Im not even paranoid, only pragmatic). And even the bigger sites… do you really want the whole technical staff at Yahoo, and anyone they know, to get your password to every other site you have subscribed to?* Not to mention I would even less think of bragging in public. * : but then, you already do use the exact same password on every site, so… forget I even talked about it (for a change). |
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Morse coders faster than SMSers:
So how about telephone or PDA keyboards using morse code? You learn Graffiti to use a Palm, so why not morse? |
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.jpg){kind=small} .jpg){kind=small} I don’t know if it’s an addition that nobody noticed yet, or an older functionality I didn’t know about, but the way Safari 2.0 intelligently shortens page titles to fit them into tabs totally fascinates me. (And not only when it’s four in the morning.) |
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24 May 2005 |
For once, a Microsoft expert says something smart. |
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What do you know! EFREI, my post-graduate school, finally has a real website. Ah, memories… not that they were particularly good, but as I wrote before I give in easily to nostalgia. It amazes me not to be able to find a single one of my co-students on the web. I know, someone looking for me wouldn’t find me either, but still… I should be an exception! (And I probably am, not in being hidden, but in being on the web at all.) P.S. Ah… I’m not the only one from my promotion to turn bad! |
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21 May 2005 |
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Why doesn’t any of the iTunes menu bar programs I tried offer a real volume control? I’m not asking for much, just a slider like the system volume’s — I can’t possibly be the only one wanting that, and it can’t be so hard to do. |
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It’s been quiet in here for the last few days. Okay, I can understand you wouldn’t care about my Mac talk (although should — with the revision 2 of iMac, PBook and soon iBook, and OS X finally coming of age, 2005 is the year for switching), but if nobody comments when I post a young Romain Duris picture there must be something really wrong. |
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19 May 2005 |
 Studio Magazine, May 2005. And to think that a couple days ago I stumbled onto this documentary as I woke up, and I changed channels. |
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How ugly will you be in high-def?
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Synergy: a configuration text file to edit, and you can control all your computers from the same keyboard and mouse. It’s completely free and open source, runs on Windows, OS X and Unix, and, more importantly, it just-works, immediately, no trouble at all, in the background, not even preventing you from using each computer’s keyboard and mouse when you need to. Except, of course, it’s not so pleasant having to control a Windows system with a Mac keyboard (and vice versa, presumably), and I’d rather the control could be reciprocal rather than having to define a client and server, but it’s still impressive and useful. Probably not advisable for university dorms and some cable networks, however, since there isn’t even the most basic password system. |
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The indispensable plug-in that makes my rant against Mail.app obsolete (well, except for the lack of a Quick Reply box, but that I can live without — after all, I did consider it evil until I got used to it with Opera): Mail Act-On [via]. Forget about flags and Spotlight folders: Mail Act-On is an add-on designed for just my kind of people — geeks who like their software to obey them by the keypress, and want to manage their information and organization flows in the most efficient possible way — by allowing them to assign any kind of actions to an elementary shortcut (and as I describe it I realize I might have thought of looking for something like this before ranting). As a bonus, it’s configurable directly from within Mail.app, just by adding personalized rules. A simple rule to send my personal mail to an “Incoming” folder as soon as it arrives, followed for instance by another simple rule to archive messages when I press ‘<’ and ‘W’ (I changed the default Act-On key to French keyboards better), and there you go. Message organization at your fingertips. It’s one keypress more than in Opera, but it’s very much worth it this time (and this way it’s less prone to accidental triggering, too). Yippee!  You can’t not install this. (Together, of course, with P.S. The drawback is that it’s an interface-less plug-in that doesn’t even install any example rules, which means that, if you didn’t already know you needed it, nothing will tell you. Unlike Opera, Mail Act-On doesn’t P.S. Thanks for everyone who’s linking to me as an example of Mail Act-On usage. Considering how Oh, and the overlay from the screenshot above (which appears when you press the Act-On activation key, as a reminder of all available shortcuts — and is also clickable, of course) got prettier since. |
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Da Vinci Code Trailer Reviewed:
What, is it the cleverness, the intelligence, the philosophical reflection, or simply the literary quality of this piece of shit of a book that won’t translate well to film? Ok, granted, there’s no way Ron Howard could really, faithfully translate the book’s quality. But, now, the question is: why am I reading the blog of someone who loved Da Vinci Code? |
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Okay, enough playing around. In Opera, I have to press a key to make an email disappear from the active view, and I only have to type in the little box below in order to send a quick reply, in Mail.app I have to… click everywhere, all the time. I like Mail.app, I like my Apple mouse (like I expected, I don’t miss the right button all that much — unlike the scroll wheel), and it annoys me that Opera doesn’t support AppleScript and doesn’t display a mail count in the Dock, but all that is far from enough reason to justify enduring Mail.app. So, yeah, I spent almost a full day importing my old messages, sorting them, removing spam (because I was importing the Eudora copy, the backup, the one I don’t bother to remove spam from), all for nothing — so what? Besides it’s not actually for nothing: I’m going to keep the Mail.app setup and make it download a copy of my mail every so often, so that Spotlight indexes them. Until Mail 5.0 becomes a real, worthy mail client. |
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18 May 2005 |
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Darth Vader Superstar: Vader’s blog has had a few weaknesses near the end — or rather, missed a few opportunities for interesting posts, probably because the author wanted to meet today’s deadline — but the finale more than makes up for it. |
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The joy of Spotlight: importing my gigabyte of archives mail (from my Eudora mailboxes, which I kept up to date all this time because I feared Opera would hold my data hostage), the computer lags, CPU load is 100%, iPulse indicates it’s all in the system layer (which means it isn’t Mail.app per se hogging the CPU, but Spotlight running behind), the CPU temperature is 77°C (that’s 170°F according to Dashboard — exactly when is the fan supposed to start spinning like crazy and sounding like a jet taking off?). Accidentally quitting Mail.app (which doesn’t bother to ask me if I really wanted to, and I should be glad it wasn’t while it was importing one of the biggest mailboxes), putting the computer to sleep, and as soon as I wake it up the CPU is at 100% again, and it’s still Spotlight, catching up. Of course, it isn’t such a big deal for me, as it’ll only happen once, but I wonder how Spotlight must make your computer crawl if you have subscribed to one of those big, chatty mailing lists. P.S. Spotlight a Stoplight for Video Pros:
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17 May 2005 |
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Am I dreaming or doesn’t Mail.app have an option not to automatically mark messages as read? It’s really sad to make a mail client whose inner workings would allow it to better Opera, and completely miss the mark by refusing to add an option — and such an elementary one. Let me remind you how the best mail client in the world works: there’s no proper inbox like in the others, and the user never needs to move a message from one folder to another. There’s a special “Unread” folder (a magical folder, à la Spotlight), in which all unread messages arrive, and they stay there until they’ve been marked as read. Then, they’re no longer there — but they’re everywhere else: in the “Received” folder, in the sender’s folder, in the free-form searches. No tedious drag and dropping the messages to sort them, no unsorted 10,000-message inbox, all you have to do is click a button (or press ‘K’) once you’ve read / responded / processed a message — that is, when you don’t need it in your inbox anymore. And Mail.app could do the exact same thing, if only it didn’t insist on marking messages as read without asking me what I want. Not sure that was quite clear, but it’s very hard to explain, and all you can do is try. I already converted my stepfather, so why wouldn’t you follow? So, in the end, maybe it won’t matter a bit that it doesn’t manage to import my mail from Opera. Anyway, considering how some experts have criticized Mail.app, I’m probably not missing much. I can only hope Opera will work well on OS X. P.S. There it is, all transferred in a few seconds (well, more like ten minutes to compress my gigabyte of archived mail, and one minute to copy the zip file) from Opera to Opera. And they were kind enough to use the native OS X theme as a default — although nobody uses those kinds of tabs, so I’ll have to check their site for a better, more modern skin. P.S. Multiply the migration time by two, because it’s substantially better if I import the right mail archive, the one that’s up to date. Go figure why Opera 8 ended up storing my mail in the Opera754 folder. |
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Dear Stevie: So, there it goes, Stevie: by the time iTunes 4.9 is released, I’d like you to play nice (as if) and add a “Temporary Files” source where files would automatically land unless they were explicitly added to the library, and have it be (optionally) purged on every launch, or every n days. There. Sounds simple, right? While we’re at it, you could also consider the switchers’ interest and make sure they can easily transfer their iTunes library from Windows when they fork over 2000€ in order to enter the select G5 club. But it’d be too late for me anyway.
P.S. A quick search-and-replace in the Library.xml export file, and my library is on the Mac, complete with ratings and playlists. There are 11 songs missing out of 4,500… so I guess we’ll just assume they have a pretty good reason not to be there, and leave it at that. Some day I might try and do a diff on song lists — when I can be bothered to check out how that works. |
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16 May 2005 |
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Nothing happens when I try and open Image Capture Scripting’s AppleScript dictionary and my script returns an odd error message, even though all I did was copy and paste a straightforward command to determine the width of an image. Is there a connection? (Considering that width is displayed in the color of variables rather than recognized words, I’d suppose it is.) And, if so, is there a way to get and install the correct dictionary? I’m going to spend time in front of this Mac (euphemism alert), so I need the blog thumbnail system to work. |
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You could have warned me that my blog’s thumbnails looked horrendous on a decent LCD screen. (And I intended to keep my PC as the main graphics workstation… maybe I’ll have to reconsider my options.) Oh, and, also… bllllllllllllll gahhhhhhhhhhhhh. |
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15 May 2005 |
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In fact, BelAmi makes splending photographs and pathetic videos, right? How can people spend fortunes on those things? |
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14 May 2005 |
My point being, you know that some aggregators will be poorly programmed, and will fetch your feeds every ten minutes and ignore the cache or http headers; and the more opportunities to abuse your site you give them, the more they’ll take. Whereas making one and only comment feed is not rocket science — and it degrades nicely: it’s pretty usable even if the aggregator doesn’t explicitly support it. I’m unfortunately a little burned in regard to the particular category of bloggers who’re liable to weigh on the evolution of standards, so we’ll have to wait until someone more respectable has the same thought. |
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The ly detector (Javascript adverb detector), comments section:
Me dig adverbs. In any language. |
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13 May 2005 |
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Tiger for Panther-users suffering from Triskaidekaphobia:
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 Which is the key word? “Onforwarded” or “delivery”? P.S. Looks like it was “onforwarded”. (Which indeed isn’t a word. Why do we have to suffer so?) |
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 Like I said. I’m gonna be in one hell of a mood for the whole week-end. |
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— I’m sleepy. — Already? — Yeah. |
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12 May 2005 |
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The way it’s going, I can see my Mac sleeping for the whole week-end less than a hundred kilometers away from my home. I’m gonna scream. |
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Garoo elsewhere (Re: Queer as Folk 3.01–3.02):
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 Getting closer. (Meanwhile, the tracking on Apple’s website still shows nothing at all. Really, what’s the point.) Yes, I know, you (or at least the half dozen that cares) wish I posted something more interesting than my iMac’s journey, but these days when I’m not reloading the TNT page I’m making scripts. For Gayattitude (now with live chat — again, in hopes that it won’t overload again, third time’s the charm, they say, but the French say “ Oh, and I also spent two hours reorganizing my feeds in Bloglines, because all Windows aggregators are utterly, amazingly, unbelievably unusable, and because Bloglines had trouble marking items as read on my most populated categories, so I gather you have to make smaller groups. The problem being that every time you move a feed around the whole list has to be reloaded — all 400+ feeds, and 400+ fucking icons, and all the Javascript around (would you believe that all Bloglines pages are entirely made with document.write, which means they don’t only take time to load, they also make Firefox freeze for thirty seconds every time?). Two hours to reorganize. I know full well I could have exported an OPML list, made the changes in a local aggregator, and import the new OPML back in. But I’m stubborn that way. (And Windows aggregator disgust me.) |
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11 May 2005 |
Requiem for a Dream OST |
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J’avoue que, si j’ai du mal à tenir une émission entière de Silence ça pousse (j’veux pas dire, mais avec un titre comme ça d’origine, il n’y a même pas besoin d’en rajouter), le jardinier m’a toujours fasciné. Enfin… épaté. Enfin… euh… terrifié ? Et j’ai bien sûr remarqué tout de suite, aussi, les bras du machin de Direct 8. (Que je n’ai plus regardée depuis le lendemain du lancement du flux web, tiens. C’est leur faute, aussi, s’ils n’ont même pas les moyens de faire des redifs à l’heure à laquelle je n’ai rien à regarder à la télé.) |
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 What’s the point, really, of having package tracking on the web if the page is going to be completely blank? |
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10 May 2005 |
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Lektora: a very well designed RSS aggregator for Firefox, recommended to anyone who doesn’t need to subscribe to hundreds of feeds (every time you launch it, every post from the previous session is marked as read, which doesn’t work for me — I keep certain feed groups for certain times of day, depending on my mood). And it even seems to be available in French (which I don’t care for, and you don’t either, but I just wrote this sentence in the French version of this post, and started translating it without thinking.) |
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Bloglines has been screwing up for a few days now. It’s about to be time to look for the best aggregator on OS X (although I’m afraid there isn’t much of a controversy about that). P.S. And, as if that weren’t enough, no aggregator will accept to import Bloglines’ OPML export file. Grr. P.S. Managed (I think — haven’t got the courage to check that every one of my 400 feeds is there) to salvage the Bloglines OPML export file by replacing <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>. Guess that one only bites people reading blogs with accents. |
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And why doesn’t it already work that way in Firefox? Huh, why? |
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9 May 2005 |
Wahhhh. |
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 Heeee.  Hawww. *jumpity* *jumpity* *jumpity* *jumpity* (Do I need to tell you I am really bouncing and giggling in front of my computer right now?) |
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8 May 2005 |
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Voilà, the galleries are now completely functional, and I encourage you to subscribe to its RSS feed if you want to keep seeing my photographs, because that’s where the photolog will now be happening (if you don’t use RSS, you’ll see the latest images on the top right of my home page). Redirections are all set, and the GarooSoft section has been transferred to the wiki as planned. Now, just one last hesitation: do I adapt the layout to use sIFR? |
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And when you think you’ve seen it all… now a wave of posts are blaming web developers for blaming Google for their websites being broken, because, don’t you know, it’s bad to use GET (that is, links) to trigger actions, and you should only POST (that is, forms — yes, I’m simplifying here, I know). Damnit, those standardists have no lack of imagination when it comes to annoying people. I’d slam my head to the wall, but luckily I’m already too sleepy for that. (Expecting me to explain and argue? No point in doing that, I’ve already tried, and those people never listen anyway. — It’s bad because it’s bad. — Why? — Because it’s bad, the RFC says so. — So what. — So that’s the way it is, now shut up, you stupid kid. Yeah, right. Sorry, really, all my apologies for having a brain and using it for my own, personal decision-making.) (Fucking lot of dumbasses.) |
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It’s very cute and all (newsflash: I fall for tiny twinks), but IMDb measures him at 6’1. Has there been, like on gay chatrooms, an inflation over the last two years, and now everybody is over 6’0? |
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 I’d like it better if they said at what time it moved to “Preparing Shipment”, rather than say at what time it still was. Knowing it still is in one stage is less informative than knowing when exactly it entered that stage. |
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7 May 2005 |
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By the power of SQL queries over several tables (I’ve had such a bad time with MySQL, at the time when we were hosted… uh… can’t remember where, that I had always stayed very clear from those sorts of things), here come the garoo.net galleries, in a blog format and with Flickr-like tags, for originality. All that’s left now is copying the GarooSoft contents into my wiki, and the site will finally be whole. P.S. And here’s the RSS feed. |
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Slow Balls Take The Swing Out Of Young Ball Players [via]:
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Blueprint for a widget of mass destruction [via] (in short: Tiger users must uncheck the “Open safe files after downloading” option in Safari’s preferences):
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Cette semaine : la saison 2 de Carnivàle arrive sur Jimmy dimanche soir, alors que les américains ont dû attendre un an et demi entre les deux saisons, yay ; France 4 multidiffuse à partir de dimanche trois heures de Various Voices, festival (parisien, comme le nom l’indique) de chant choral gay et lesbien ; France 2 diffuse rien moins qu’une pièce de Sartre après les Molières, lundi, pour se la jouer “on aime trop grave le théâtre” ; je me demandais pourquoi iCal ramait, c’était le site de PinkTV en arrière-plan dans Safari ; Jimmy rediffuse la saison 1 de Scrubs après avoir rediffusé la saison 2, classique (mais je ne m’en plaindrai pas, je n’ai jamais vu les premiers épisodes). |
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Google Web Accelerator 666Google Web Accelerators Obnoxious Pre-Fetching:
As a web developer, I never liked the idea of prefetching, but I just can’t imagine Google making such a stupid mistake — even on a beta version, knowing it’ll be immediately linked by thousands of bloggers all over the world. Google, for crying out loud, the makers of Gmail! They should know about web applications! According to some, Google would even be caching, on its universal proxy, your private pages, those you access with personal cookies — giving access to them to anyone browsing the same site after you. But now that’s so unthinkable I just prefer to assume those guys have a very broken system. Anyway, if they haven’t pulled the plug on this by Monday, Google’s popularity (and, more importantly, trust) rating will have to be seriously reconsidered. Well, it won’t have to — it will be, instantly. P.S.: GWA is the new net SUV. |
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6 May 2005 |
 But why did it take two days to reach “Sent to manufacturing” status? |
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Mmh… is the stand larger than the previous revision’s, or have I only gotten used to the idea of a tiny stand like this supporting all by itself such a big and precious small computer? P.S. After verification on Google Images, it looks like it’s just me. |
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4 May 2005 |
No turning back now. |
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3 May 2005 |
Well, that’s a step in the right direction. I didn’t originally want to borrow my mother’s credit card because I was a bit ashamed of announcing I was buying a 1,900€ computer, but… I figure that shortening the delay by a whole week makes it quite worth it. |
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Mfff sgruh gneee. |
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Est-ce qu’en 2005 on ne devrait pas être capables de concevoir des systèmes qui ne jouent pas à la douche écossaise dès que quelqu’un se lave les mains à l’autre bout de l’appartement ? |
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Gayattitude 3.0 It took me a while, oh yeah did it take me a while — about a year and a half rewriting all the scripts. Not because it takes a year and a half, but for lack of motivation and, more importantly, because I couldn’t find anything satisfactory for the new interface — tired of frames, but nothing better at hand. And then Google arrived, and Ajax became the latest fashion (I hated the idea of imposing a cutesy nametag on a technology already known as XMLHttpRequest, but I have to admit that, when it comes to taking notes on paper, “ Nevertheless, now that I know how Ajax works and what it really does, I can’t help but laugh at how fashionable it has become. For years they’ve been repeating that frames are evil and… now everybody’s enthusiastic about what is nothing more than a Javascript-driven iframe system. Doubly evil. Mwah. Oh, and while we’re on the fashion subject: I was dead set on making the new site with as few tables as possible (the only layout table was to be on the blogs, for compatibility reasons, because users are accustomed to uploading huge images that layout blocks have to adjust to) and I had to move back and add a bunch of them because Explorer was screwing up completely. I even tried adding a doctype (HTML 4 transitional, though) in case it’d work better. |
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 What a fool you’ve got to be to have satellite TV in Normandy. Oh how odd, it’s raining! |
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Option 1: hesitate for three days. Option 2: write a 1,900€ check, quickly, before starting to think. Option 3: hesitate for a week. Option 4: buy a Mac mini, quickly, before I’m tempted. Option 5: grab an axe and break everything in my room. Ahhh the pain in my head, make it stop, make it stop! |
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2 May 2005 |
Oh boo-hoo. I haven’t found the courage to read the whole article — I’m not really interested in six long pages about George Lucas. |
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The Miranda plug-in for Google Desktop is very nice — until you reach “ |
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 Must be the very first time I drive by night, on a deserted highway, without public lighting. Well, as it turns out, one gets used to it, and one could almost get a taste for it. Rennes here I come! Trouble is, myopia doesn’t go well with night time at all. I need to finally get some glasses, but I don’t like booking appointments. Especially not with doctors of any kind. |
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1 May 2005 |
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Tiger Details: “ |
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Like I said yesterday. However, I don’t understand this part at all:
Huh? Why would the OS-managed screen rotation need the monitor to keep up? What does the monitor have to do with anything there? Shouldn’t the drivers just rotate the picture without changing the resolution? Otherwise, what’s the point? |
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