I feel like blogging tonight.
But I don't have any particular subject in mind, so it'll be a bit confused until I grasp a line.
Well, I have my first christmas gift ready. The thing is It's mine. I really must go shopping this weekend. I always go the 'but last' weekend for my christmas shopping, never could get myself to do it earlier.
So, my gift to myselft is a toaster. The English kind, wallace & gromit kind, the kind you don't find in France. Thanks to TBoB, who lives oversea, I'll have one when taking my first breakfeast in my new home.

I didn't give any news about my finally successfull search for an apartment, I found a nice studio near Alesia metro station, south of Paris, I shall move in during christmas holidays, which will start december 20th. You'll be welcome home.

This being done, I got to find new objectives for next year. Or maybe I'll just let me live for a while, just to try the taste of time passing by.

Well, I've been monitoring the news these last days, but nothing extraordinary is happening in december, malls are packed with givers and gifts, ads are dressed in red and white and singing 'HoHoHo', the cold is as cold as usual, the global warming seems to have stopped during winter.

What an abrupt end.

Rain and Snow

12 minutes to finish Quake1 (torrent). Impressive.
Yeah, you'll need bittorent to dl that.
Watched the news tonight. My god, this little French screen, national news, flood, rain, cold. For a second I felt trapped in the past, a glimpse in a small world.
later
TV again, a masterpiece. Not so bad after all.

Yeah

I shall have an apartment tonight.
Maybe I'll add that to this page.
See y'a world.

A work day later
Papers signed.
I'll have the keys mid-december.

Well, that's done.

Today - Tonight

Lazy day today. Raining, cloudy. Gone through le jardin du luxembourg around noon, I was alone, rain playing in the trees, cold wind. Silence.
Tonight I'll go to see the FatalsPicards. Maybe I'll try to take a nap before.
Oh, and we lost the rugby match.
Two hours later
Well, that was a good concert. Small scene, we arrived at the middle of the concert, for the band we came for, we just saw the end of the previous performance and a small newscast on some anti-war march. (A far-left politician was saying "Let's not start what will be a bloody war, let's show this is not what the people want". Three month later, the war is over, it's still a bloody mess.)
Then the FatalsPicards, good songs, good scene play, feels like being home, or at a friend's party, with a local band playing for a birthday. Cosy.
Now I'll go and have some sleep, tomorrow is another work day.

Done.

Okay, this new 'shell for a website' is up and running. Good. I'm gonna watch a movie now.
[wanted aka Crime Spree]
Funny to switch from English to French and back (most of the film beeing in English). The movie itself is OK, reminded me of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but more fuzzy, less fun, guess they are better musicians than actors. As I write that, I tell myself "If it wasn't you saying it, you'd say it's a jerkish remark". I guess the voice in my head is right. The 1vs1 between Renaud and Hallyday was good. Guess who won.

Just changed my comment system from KlinkFamily's blogout to Haloscan's. The second one is simpler, quicker. It's also more widely used, that could become a problem sometimes, but we'll deal with it then.

Lazy Net

Hey world.
End of week, those three days were exhausting.
Some quick news first:

• I've uploaded KTTS on another location.
  
• FreeRadioLinux is still down.
  
• KTTS.L : The quickest way to make you PC talk.
  
• Waouh, I hadn't used those list tag for a while!
  
• I'm wondering if I should change the font to 10 or 12pt, I think it's 8 right now. Is it too small ? A quick benchmark of common websites shows mine is written quite small. Wadayathink?
  
• I added this blog to blogshare. Just for the sake of it, I saw the link on the blogging ecosystem page (see below).
  

Wandered to Recommended Reading, which will recommend you with new website since you give a start point. Based on the blogging ecosystem, a sort of map of the blogs. (sort of because I supose there is a little more about an ecosystem than just nodes and links.)
I just removed the links to blogmatrix as I'm not convinced of the use of keeping them.
I'm setting up an auxiliary website to upload content and link to it. May not be usefull at all.
Well, I went to AngelFire, but this is WebSite for dummies (no offense), so I went back to my old multimania. Both are owned by Lycos, but the services are quite different. Well, so many different people.

Well, so long world, I'm going to bed.

Not yet, just saw this image: there, I like it.

KTTS

Hey World.
I've just finished the first draft of KTTS (for K - TTS engine): a word document with TTS functions, a quick play with windows TTS functions. Get it there and comment.

Winamp5 - Winter - Whatever

Hey world.
Several things catched my attention today, but now I can't remember any. Except Winamp5Alpha is out (not found on winamp.com though), funny to go from winamp 2 and 3 to 5, a way of saying 'ok, 2 was good, 3 was, but in a different way, so let's not do a 4 and have three different versions, but a five (quantum jump) and start on a stable basis again.
I've finaly watched 24s2, great. My favorite quote will be "Shoot him again now, Kim"(wav) (I bet it's your's already). The end is weird (in a WhatTheHell way).
Well, I'll get back to you later, things to do.
See y'a world.

Halloween

Hey world. My posts are more and more sparse. Here I stand, saturday morning, browsing the internet, listening to my favorite internet radio, googling and surfing my news grid. I've been away for a while. What's up around?
Yesterday was Halloween. Long life to the deads. Reminds me of Pirates of the Caribbean. I've heard that in France, as a response to the number of death caused by heat this summer, two third of the Frenchies will go and visit grandfather grave this weekend. Crowded. (failed to find a reliable source for this info).

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Do not shoot the lawyer.
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Oh, by the way, I've starting reading Kundera - Different people tried to talk me in, I never bothered trying, two days ago I was at a friend, he was ironing, I took a book to read, he gave me another one, Kundera. Well, I'm not going to do critics, I like it. The Movie.
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Kiss
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I'm thinking about going skating this afternoon, but the wheater is unstable. Well, meteorologists says it is raining and it will rain all afternoon. It is sunny, can I conclude it will be sunny all day?
Let's try.
See you world.

PS: I almost forgot: Max Payne 2 seems to be a sequel, no more, no less, but I can't play more than 10 minutes without freezing. A Payne. Haha.
(I'm winME, ATI radeon8500LE, I'll go and find why it is so and let you now.)

Better

Well, yesterday was as bad as monday, but today was good. Once again, when you are tired nothing goes well. I'm ready for next weekend now.
So here are the news (get ready, it might be long)
I'll start with last weekend, for I'm too lazy to recall what happened before, and only a few people would bother anyway.
So, last weekend I went to a friend's, in Nancy. The main object of the trip, apart from the trip itself (always good to leave from hometown from time to time), was a jazz concert, part of the Nancy Jazz Pulsations program, a five hours show, featuring (I got to google that to get the right spellin) Késiah Jones. That was good. The night was long, we went to a 24h boulangerie twice in the night, a gay bar (why the hell ?), and walked all around the city just 'cause this as***le wouldn't remeber where we were heading for more than 30 seconds.
Sunday was lazy, good meal, good wine, back to Paris.
Monday and thursday were no good, too much work, tired from the weekend, hell.
As I said up, today was better, sunny, I had slept, all the stuff I had to do sundely seemed easier (not easy yet, but not as impossible as before), so I'm in a better mood today.

That was for the backlog, now let me just spend a few lines on a news I saw in wired (yeah, reading the news on a palm during the morning bus transfer is a good way to start the day), Lego is hunting a new 'Lego Master Builder'. Each and every boy know what a lego is, a lot of them (us) have spend some years playing with those bricks, building whatever we pleased, beeing god (yellow plastic flavor). Now Lego is opening one of the most wanted job on earth: Lego God. Well, my lego passion is gone now, but it seems a lot of people are ready for the fight, one of them will play forever after.
From my point of view, Lego has become more and more commercial, lauching series of whatever trendy, not really related to constructing worlds anymore, more like assembling simple toys to play with instead of directly buying them. I guess I'm not a child anymore.
[looking at lego website]
Well, after surfing a bit, I apology, the commercial stuff is what we see in malls, but you still have REAL constructing material on the website.

GottaGo, C y'a world.

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Hey. Just some quick words to let you know I'm still alive. And tired. Don't know if it is because of the week end, or because of this awful Monday, or both... But I'm gonna go to bed early tonight. Sleep. Need it. See y'a world.

HTML - Fractal complexity

Hello World.
I've been coding /fighting/ the template of the small blog I use for the links (left bottom corner of your screen - hopefully) for several hours.
I didn't want to have the standard scroll bar, but some arrows, couldn't make them out of the frame as you can't perform javascript 'scrollBy' on a page placed on a different host (whateverwimm is the main page, wwimm-links is the links page). I still did want some fix arrows, not the up/down links I had before on the date line. So here we go for some javascript quick learning. I'm a fast learner (for coding and whatever mathematical stuff (yeah right)), so I quickly wrote a small code on a test page to do the nice scrolling of the page, the arrows staying at the top. Cut 'n Paste, didn't work. After hours, I figured that the DOCTYPE at the very begining of the template was screwing everything, as (I suppose) my code was not coherent with the doctype. Kill that. Now it works.
That is something like a Basic Rule in computer programming: when you have no idea why it doesn't work, you can be sure it's not coming from what you just wrote but from another detail, unnoticed before and quickly forgotten, hidden in some (remote) part of your (huge) code.
That leads to the title: Fractal complexity: basic HTML is simple and quick, anybody can write a HelloWorld page, then you feel confident and embrace the whole complexity of the Internet. And you don't sleep anymore. Beware.
- Thanks to the likes of phpnuke and blogger, you don't (really) need hardcoding anymore (except when it comes to details, forget about details) -.
BTW, here are my sources for html, javascript and co: CommentCaMarche (fr) & DevGuru. Of course you already knew php.net.
Sorry for such a long techy post - Cya World!

This and That

Hey World.
I'll be right back.

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Here I am.
I originaly opened my browser to post about my new palm toy, but a lot of stuff came to my mind when I was waiting for this damn 'light' browser to load. Just kidding, it is light. mostly.
Okay, so I have a palm, which was my dad's some time ago, and was lying in a little box inches from my computer, alone and forgotten. Got it out, installed a news retriever, and let's rock. Now I'll read the washington post in the paris bus.
I'll be right back (again).
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Ok, here I am again.
So, I am now searching for websites offering news in a convenient format for handheld device, means no fancy tables, images, and whatever not text.
Plucker provides a basic list, including /., wired and such, plus some news as CNN. I'm quite sure reuters would have such a handheld formated section, the thing is WHERE THE F*CK IS IT !?
Well, searching that I found several collections of classics in plucker format. Some reading. Cool.
I'll take some for the ride.
Done.

I'm almost done, just to finish: I've seen The Core this afternoon. Well. That film is no good. They tried to remake armageddon, twisting the scenario a bit so nobody would guess. A forgotten scientist creates a new device to melt rocks, together with the super-steel to build the incredible machine, right when needed by the American Army.
One funny thing: the rat (yeah, the super hacker - the actor is the little guy in road trip) plays a tune using a chewing gum package (well, here my english is failing) to unlock a phone (Now you've got interurban calls gratis, for life.) This is just like the Tgirl talking with a modem in T3.
I was going to see an armageddon like, I saw a... bad remake of... can't find something quite as plotless.

Update:
Watching Alice in wonderland.
Singingdaffodils. I like this word, daffodil. It goes with lulllaby, lolita and loreleil. I like Ls.
Ohoh, Alice ate the mushroom. Too much of it. hehe.
See ya World.

Update:
About this study I mentionned earlier(Can you raed tihs?), showing that you can read scrambled words, as long as first and last letters are well placed... Found a trace on slashdot, and then to the source... which is not any university. (BTW, sometimes it is about cambridge uni and sometimes just an english uni. Anyway, here is the trace:
Slashdot->bisso.com->languagehat->avva's blog(Start).
Note all are somehow blogs. And the university didn't publish (on the net) or nobody didn't care to link.
However, read that for a more complete story.
And that paper.

Hello world.
It's been a while - my home computer was down for a week, and a lot of work at work, no time for blogging there - here are the news:
- still havent find my apartment, still searching
- summer is still here, despite what meteorologists try to make us believe
- ITs have finaly managed to produce low price PCs with easy to install stuff, everything is up an running minutes /hours/ after you came home with a bunch of boxes. (given I already had the internet wired)
I've found a BlogStockMarket, will have a look at that later (see link on right side), my firebird seems a bit unstable, I've been kicked twice when browsing this afternoon.
Well, that is a nice chat, but I need to go out and feel the sun when it is still here.
Ciao world.

Home

My home ? Mine !
Soon ? I'll know that tomorrow or next week, let's hope.
Cya.

Nothing

Hello world.
Nothing new today, lot of work, visited an apartment this evening, cool, might be too expensive, I'll know the exact price tomorrow. We'll see.
Tomorow will start early, so let's go to bed.
Cya world.

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Well, I'm not sleepy right now. I'm listening some random music on shoutcast radio. I wonder if they have licenses to broadcast. f*cking RlAA.
It's quite funny to see the internet, which has grown wildly unoticed from any commercial vamp during the last ten (twenty) years, now poluted by people wanting to own that or that. I'm not really concerned by the linux/sco debate nor this RIAA affairs as I'm in europe (I do hope the frontwave will be stoped inside the mighty US of A and we won't have to bother), but I'm contemplating all that movement, debates, subpoenas and noise, wondering if I should trow my computer away and get back to ink and paper.
Thanks to the community, which IS the backbone of the internet, I won't.
[change of music - I feel like fighting now - never underestimate...]
Yes, the community of people who USE the internet, who browse, post, email, lurk, blog, rant, troll, swap, read, write, design, search, develop, test, USE the biggest bloody entity ever created by man, this community runs the internet, is the blood, the red cells, the energy running trough the cold and icy glass wiring the continents under the oceans.
- Please feel free to copy and distribute this rant -
Good night world.

Luck

I'm lucky today.
I take two buses to go to work, and to more to come back, I had three of them as soon as I walked by the bus stop,
back home the lift was at ground floor, and I had emails from distant friends in the box.
If I was in gambling I would. I'm not.
An article about a cambridge university study showing that you can write all wrong and still be read spread today, I'm searching for a reliable source...
And I have no comment about my digital camera problem... I think I'll pick the olympus, as frenchy has slightly the same one and I know it is nice.
By the way, I browsed through the columns of the washington post today, find it quite interesting, good overviews.
By another way, you may have (or not) noticed that I don't use my googler anymore. Well, that's not because I'm grown up and have started to use hyperlinks with more care, it's just because my computer is much more stable since the weather is cooler and I don't have to save when writing, so I write directly in blogger. I might write a pluggin for mozilla to instantly create the link to the google search... Yeah, sounds great!... does it? Well, if you have mozilla, you can select a word, right clic, and clic 'web search for "selected" ', so it would be for ie-users. Still lot of people.
Oh, I'm still looking for an apartement in paris - to be honest I wasn't very efficient this summer - if you have anything, do not hesitate, post a comment or mail me. My mail is somewhere on this page, left side.
Well, that was a nice chat, I feel like I could continue for some days, but I've got to go - See ya.
( BTW: I didnt find the cambridge uni study )

Photos

Hello,
I've been playing with the design and code of the blog, the content was left out for some days.
Well, I was in provins this weekend, nice and sunny, a nice way to finish my holidays. Tomorrow I'll be back to work.
Anyway, I'm planing to buy a digital camera, as I'm in France my choice is different from the one you can have overseas I guess, my short list contains
Olympus Camedia C-220 Zoom and Fujifilm Finepix A204, from all those, given that I don't want to spend more than 200€. The olympus is smaller, the fujifilm has an optic zoom, the price difference is not much. I'm hesitating. If anyone has any of those, or something else, tell me what you think.

Stuff

Well, I'm enhacing this blog with cool stuff, let me know if anything is too much.
My new gadget is the imagepoper: [yingyang].
We shall use that instead of including the images in plaintext. What do you think?
Update: Now I've got a spot to write down links without any comment, just as I browse.

Clubbing

Clubbing. At the batofar. Was the birthday of a friend, that's easy to remember, 11/09. Had a beer and a piece of cake in a bar near hotel de ville, then to the batofar, a club on a péniche (barge), goooood music. All night.
We left around 5am, went all the way back to St Michel (that was a walk).
Had a hot chocolate in a 24h café, le café du départ, and off to sleep.
I find it fun to take the first metro, when people go to work, still half sleeping, and you go to sleep, half sleeping to, just perfect oposite.
Now it's hard to wake up.
Let's have a look at the internet, see what's up since last week.