1 août 2011
Of course I chose to pack my ten days’ worth of clothes in the bag that doesn’t have wheels. Because I’m a moron.
Can’t believe how heavy my MacBook is when it’s on my back. Can I trade it for an Air right here on the train platform?
2 août
Spending the night under the stars sounded like a great idea until I emptied my phone’s battery on the train.
When’s the last time I saw the sun rise? Well, I didn’t really this time either, couldn’t be bothered, was better off in my cybercafé.
Dire que si on me sous-louait un canapé un mois sur deux je pourrais claquer mon fric dans un MacBook Air et pas des honoraires d’agence.
C’est bien la peine que je paye un service de VPN si j’oublie de cocher la case “Send all traffic over VPN connection”.
3 août
Dunno who’s the genius who decided to switch taxi lamps from on/off to green/red but… what the hell took him so long?
RT @NolanBushnell: At Atari we hired based on hobbies and not grades in school. We ended up with he best engineering group in the world.
4 août
5 août
6 août
7 août
Sortir sans son iPhone pour être prudent, oublier de verifier l’adresse avant de sortir, et se taper toutes les rue-du-Faubourg à la suite.
8 août
9 août
10 août
11 août
Le VPN pour surfer sur les wifi publics, c’était beaucoup mieux conceptuellement quand ça ne me déconnectait pas des wifi publics.
Si quelqu’un voulait acheter mon MacBook blanc, au moins je repartirais heureux avec un nouveau jouet via l’Apple Store.
12 août
Maybe Apple could release a 4” iPhone that’d display existing apps at their current size and require recompiling apps to use the margins.
iPhone battery half empty after just listening to music on the train for two hours. Better be beta trouble and not aged battery.
OVH se décide à envoyer le premier avertissement d’expiration du serveur… à trois jours et alors que mon client et sa CB sont en Inde.
“Spoilers don’t spoil anything”
Warning: the link above displays a spoiler about Harry Potter 6 because people on the web are looking for nothing if not a license to print spoilers.
This is an amazingly stupid story that’s been on the web the last couple of days, and the reason why it’s stupid is in the first sentence of this paragraph:
The first thing you probably noticed is that people don’t like literary stories. (And that’s a shame, because Updike’s “Plumbing” is a masterpiece of prose: “All around us, we are outlasted….”) But you might also have noticed that almost every single story, regardless of genre, was more pleasurable when prefaced with a spoiler.
Yeah. The study showed that people who don’t particularly enjoy reading won’t enjoy it any less if they’re spoiled, and they might even be more interested in what they’re reading after being told that something’s gonna happen in the end.
That’s certainly interesting (and Hollywood seems to have completely integrated that idea, judging by how they produce trailers), but it has absolutely nothing to do with the very people who are hung up about spoilers — those of us who are actually interested in stories in the first place.
So just stop linking to this bullshit “study,” okay?
14 août
15 août
So did Google really buy a $12B, full-fledged (failing) handset maker just because it needed patents to defend itself? Sad state of affairs.
Oh, so you ARE supposed to be able to open Safari’s Downloads popup when done. Did I enable a hidden setting that auto-empties it, or what?
16 août
Gonna have to disable extensions again in Beachball Safari, then back to Chrome to keep using 1Password. Grr.
Just occurs to me that I’m bitching about the spam on Twitter but haven’t found a way yet to stop the Benin scammers on NoPic.
How uncharacteristic that Google Maps doesn’t volunteer to display an automatically populated map of all my contacts’ homes.
I like how the rumors have canceled the iPad Pro so I don’t need to have any hesitation left about buying a MacBook Air.
17 août
18 août
Maybe I should try to find out why I’d commented out this functionality in my production code? Ah, fuck it, I’ll just put it back in.
Pour la prochaine version de NoPic, frames ou Ajax ? Fait chier de coder des trucs complexes juste pour le plaisir d’être moins compatible…
19 août
Isn’t it unusual that we’re up to beta 6 already, almost two months away from the rumored release date? Cloud stuff is hard.
20 août
I hope the $100 HP Touchpad clearance sale doesn’t reach France, because I’d have the hardest time resisting it. For no good reason.
I’m a couple password prompts away from turning off Adium for good. Guess it forgets the password every time a connection fails, whatever the error?
I said I’d sell my PS3 wheel when a decent one came out for 360
Stick to the plan or own both? Either way, Forza 4! Yay!
Shit, it didn’t even occur to me that it could lack force feedback. Forget it.
“‘Real Names’ Policies Are an Abuse of Power”
Article’s more interesting than the title lets on. (via @donaldjenkins)
Evidemment, comme on est en août, il n’y a personne chez HP France pour répercuter la baisse de prix du TouchPad.
21 août
I’m playing Angry Birds in Google+. Shut up. Besides, judging by the high scores, everybody else has played it too.
I supposed somebody else already pointed out that Sergey Brin seems to be #1 among my contacts on all Angry Birds levels.
Ouais, ça aurait beaucoup mieux climatisé toute la soirée si je n’avais pas pointé la sortie vers le sol #thermodynamique #pourlesnuls
Thanks so much, Twitter, for obfuscating Foursquare checkin URLs behind t.co even in the official app. ‘Cause my time’s worth nothing.
Occasionally I click a Formspring link in my Twitter feed. Then I see the answers — and questions — and I’m glad I closed my account.
Rio — Jesse Eisenberg is a terrible choice for voice acting, distractingly playing himself. Beyond that, the usual mediore fare. Watchable.
Source Code — Just about as absurd as Inception; not sure if it’s actually more entertaining or just less annoying.
22 août
The horror of house renovation: communal radio. I’ve had that silly Rihanna song in my head for a couple days, and now it’s the new Mika.
Août, où tu te dis qu’internet est soudain passé de mode et personne ne t’a prévenu et ça ne sera jamais plus vivant comme avant.
Visiblement il y a du monde qui attend le TouchPad à 100 € en France, ça ne durera pas longtemps, et je serai pas devant mon écran.
23 août
Ended up on the OmniFocus page, wondering again if it could work for me, got money to burn… nope, at $80 I’m still not even gonna play with the free demo.
The post-PC world? That’s when your computer becomes unusable because iTunes is syncing your iPad, so you throw it out the window.
“HP brings the Pre3’s cost in Europe down to $75 sans contract.” What? WHERE? And what the hell could I do with one? Must. Find. Reason.
RT @rands: At the top of my list on “How to identify a smart person” is “Notices everything”.
Um, was hesitating. It’s disappeared from Amazon and the HP store, so I guess the sale happened this morning?
I don’t often link to Arrington but he’s got a point here
Keep a decent CPU, drop the flash memory: cheap web tablet.
24 août
“New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms”
Most of what’s in the article is pretty bad for security / privacy and shouldn’t be applicable in many instances (showing a searchable list of users before login precludes hidden accounts, and showing you which account goes with a given e-mail address is awful for privacy), but these are two excellent ideas:
Facebook’s mobile Web experience tackles this in a small but useful way. If you enter an incorrect password when trying to sign in, the website will change the password field to plain text so that you can actually see your input. Facebook also offers an alternate way to log in, using your email address or phone number (screenshot below). It’s a small enhancement but one that can go a long way on mobile.
“iOS Machinarium is iPad 2 exclusive”
“The game is performance and memory demanding”. Bullshit. The Flash port is.
Don’t like the effect of the trimmer on my beard; wonder if it’s looking less natural because all the hairs are now the exact same length.
25 août
Is “Chairman of the Board” completely honorary bullshit? Because it doesn’t make all that much sense otherwise.
If I were Him, it would bug me that I couldn’t die as the CEO of my company — all because of having to anticipate the stockmorons’ reaction.
Seriously, we need to stop letting kids play with the stock market. What’s the fucking point of selling Apple stock NOW?
26 août
27 août
28 août
I’m wishlisting video games instead of buying them, not for lack of money, but for lack of time. I do not like that.
N’apu internet, Free a visiblement coupé ou transféré la ligne en avance du déménagement. Et nous, on est en retard sur le déménagement.
29 août
Le point d’accès SFR a disparu après avoir marché une heure ou deux, et il y a deux Livebox privées qui me narguent. Grargh.
30 août
31 août
I’ve already posted about my web development workflow, and the bit of AppleScript that lets me upload the local file I’m editing to its rightful place on the web server by hitting a simple hotkey in TextWrangler.
But there was a problem with this: it made a pain of using the awesome LESS.app (which allows you such awesome and simple things as defining a color in a variable in the beginning of your CSS file and using it a bunch of times, so you only have to change the value once if you want to make adustments — just as an example among a bunch of more elaborate stuff). Since I was editing the .less file and I wanted to upload the compiled .css file rather than the file I was editing, my workflow just didn’t work. As a result, I just didn’t use LESS unless the benefit was really huge.
That’s until I finally realized I could automate that process, too — AppleScript should be powerful enough to automatically detect that I’m trying to upload a .less file, and then work with the .css instead, shouldn’t it? And I should be able to make it do that, right?
So, here goes the updated script:
set fileName to ""
tell application "TextWrangler"
save document 1 of window 1
set fileName to (file of document 1 of window 1) as string
end tell
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to "."
if fileName contains "." then
set {fileBasename, fileExtension} to {text 1 thru text item -2, text item -1} of fileName
else
set {fileBasename, fileExtension} to {fileName, ""}
end if
if fileExtension is "less" then set fileName to fileBasename & ".css"
ignoring application responses
tell application "Transmit"
open fileName
end tell
end ignoring
Reminder: for this to work, you have to set up your favorites in Transmit with “DockSend” enabled — that’s the bit of magic that makes Transmit upload a file where it belongs on your server depending on where it is on your local hard drive.
“HP producing ‘one last run of TouchPads’”
Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand.
What? Wait, I’m sorry, whaaaaat?
The devices they’re selling at a huge loss are sold out because they’re sold at a huge loss, so… HP is going to manufacture a few more devices to sell at a huge loss?
I may be missing something important (like, at $99 they’re actually not sold at a loss? that’d be hard to imagine), but my immediate reaction is that they’re working really, really hard to make sure everyone knows they’ve gone absolutely insane.
Unless they’re going to sell them at full price (or at any other price than $99), in which case they’re not insane, just insanely stupid.
“They’re listed for hundreds of dollars on eBay! Quick, we need to make more!”
P.S. This explanation makes some sense. Doesn’t excuse the awfully stupid communication around the whole affair, but then what would?
Personal names around the world
You’re doing your forms wrong (via reddit).
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