Still @ Work

This is not a time to be at work. Still I am. Glad I went out yesterday night, 'cause this friday night seems compromised. Whatever, stuff to do, the progs are running (hell, computing power is exponential, but never reaches the required level), just wait and write some others. And wait.
One good point is:
In winter the sun goes down around 5pm, at that time it's ok to be at work, then you work, and at a certain point you're done, and you go home. It can be 1, 2 or 5 hours, nothing will change outside (I'm in a very quiet place) so you don't tell to yourself 'WTF am I doin' here !' every five seconds. Reached the end, gotta go and check.

PS: Not been ice-skating yet.
PPS: The screen fire is finished, I'll post it sometime.

NN

No News. I'm feeling lazy. That party was too long. Shortens the Sunday too much. I'd like to go and watch lost in translation. I'd like the spring to start tomorrow. I'd like to go ice-skating. I'd like to go and see the sea. I'm tired.
The Great Book of Forgotten Memories.
I'm obviously not the first one to be appealed by those two words. o o o o o

PS: Remember when I was searching for a fire screen saver ? Well, I didn't find what I was looking for. So I decided to do one myself, but I'm not going to reinvent the wheel, as it would be squarish and I'm lazy. So I've written a winamp visualization component to do the trick. Winamp provides me with a convenient graphic language and a rendering module, I just have to figure out how to do a fire-like screen. I'll post it later, don't have it right there, and it's not finished yet.

Drop

Hey World.
I'm still alive, dropping a quick note to keep you posted.
Well, it's gonna be a week in a few days now, got some friends around last weekend, to fill my bar (it's full of empty bottles now - clever guy -), and now I'm slowly settling, clipping old postcards, paintings, opening old archives to look into my past. To dig in the always deeper well full of forgotten memories. I could have written the story of MaxPayne, don't ya think ?
Apart from that, work is starting in a rush on this Happy New Year, two weeks holidays don't make an easy come back.
Tonight - midnight - the sales will start in Paris, get ready to spend your next month salary. (It's cheaper, it doesn't mean you will spend less, girls know that)

Second

As I told you some time ago, I found an apartment, I've been moving stuff around and now I'm ready to move in. I won't be wired, so you won't hear from me for some time, one or two weeks I guess.
Well, got to go and buy bedsheets.
Snow has stopped btw.
Happy second of january.

2004

Happy New Year.
It's snowing this morning.
I think I'll stay home all day.

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'DVD Jon' has been acquitted.
And, roughly on the same theme: The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed (I've not read this one yet, but the link source meets my quality requirements).
This is for the tech news, else I'm on holidays (finally), I'll move in tomorrow (and during the next two weeks).
I've got the [photo] (opens in popup)(hopefully) of the building entrance (thanks to pagesjaunes and visiocity).

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Well, I've played with this popup thingy, got a headache now.
cya world.

II

Two things:

First: I've decided to shift my position on the internet, refresh some old websites, delete the very old ones, and merge my identities back in the first one.
Which is Kyrlian, my friends call me kyr.
ryk obviously comes from there.
I'm writing different type of things, novels, blog, whatever, so at first I wanted to keep the styles separated, and used different - even if similar - names.
Now I'm quite settled, I now I'll continue to blog, even if not at the same rythm, I'll continue to write, so it's time to get that together.
To be honest, it won't change nothing for you, except this post will be signed kyr. (and all the previous posts as well, as blogger will republish everything with the new nick)

Second: Tonight I was Santa Clauss. At work, I'm the only guy with no children (except for the boss, who wouldn't do Santa Clauss anyway), thus I was the one with the red costume and the backpack full of gifts, coming in the meeting room where the children where eating christmas cake, and shouting HOHOHO, Merry Christmas (which goes 'Joyeux Noel' in the original version). Well, that was a first time.

Writing

I opened my blog to tell you about my recent discovery: It's Much More Easy To Write On Paper Than On Keyboard.

But then I remembered that I wanted to find a fire screen saver, so I asked google, and browsed trough the first results. I was quite surprised to see that some companies actually try to sell screen savers, for 10 dollars or so (no link here, I believe in free content, not in the "let's ask for money and see if people buy it" attitude). Then I tried a demo (demo meaning "view a version with our name blinking in the corner, and pay later", not demo as "Let's do something impressive wich will be 10kos and run on my grandmother's amiga at 60fps", but that's not really the point), a burning fire. Well that's what I was looking for, but I guess the code is somewhere on sourceforge(?), and I would need about 4 hours to javac out a windowed fire - add free. I'll let you know. (And if you know someone has already done that, tell me)

Now, this was just a remark, and before I go and browse sourceforge to see if a fire hell project already exists, I'll finish with the first point: "It's Much More Easy To Write On Paper Than On Keyboard."
Let me explain. I write stuff like small novels, poems, which are published somewhere on the internet - in French - and not signed ryk, but if you search, you'll find. Whatever, the thing is I usually write on paper, mainly when not at home, and then type back on my notepad.
Some time ago I wanted to write a novel, I hadn't any paper ready, so I tried to start and thing about the story line, find the main character, the plot, the landscape, to draw a global picture. I couldn't. I tried with this method for two weeks, but as soon as I tried to think about the novel, my mind wandered to whatever other subject of immediate concern, and so long for the storyboard. So after a while, I took my notepad (the paper kind), a pen, and waited for five seconds, trying to remember what name I had choosen. Ten minutes later I had my first chapter. (I do small chapters).
I still don't know what the end will be, but I guess my pen will decide along the lines.

And that's all for tonight, I got to find my fire now.
Cya world.

Short

Short day.
Gone home with the first metro, slept from 7 to 3pm, wandered around till night (which started 2 hours later).

I've seen Love actually, Love, actually, is all around. Well, it's good, in the fashion of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, Two Weeks Notice (well, this last one was less fun).

Wired reports that Microsoft will issue a patch to remove two swastika symbols from the 'Bookshelf Symbol 7' font. Well. Shall we also remove all the letters used to spell genocide ?.
(Reminders: what is the swastika. [1], [2] )

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.