flevour unplugged

{{245291629}} Google spiders are everywhere nowadays. They crawl and index a lot of content, be it text or images.
Last week I was preparing my CV and I wanted to spice it up with some cool iconery.
I started Googling and found some cool sketches and graphic productions by Kiel Figgins. It was clear they weren’t out there for public use, but just for showcase.
I emailed him asking permission to use them and this is the as extraordinary as unexpected response I got:

h2. the antefact

Accessing content from a feed reader has the benefit of centralizing all your reading efforts, but doesn’t give you visual clues if you need to remember where you read that interesting article you read 1 month ago.
“Search inside posts I have read” would be a killer feature for any feed reader out there.

I spent a great of yesterday morning re-organizing the directory structure on my webhost, where this site along with my client’s ones are stored.

I am happy to announce I am writing this post on Drupal5.
I have took the time to change theme (even if, as always in such situations, I feel like to give a strong rebranding to the whole flevour.net as a concept, more on this some future day) and install a few modules for my writing pleasure.

Most importantly:

I’ll start the upgrade process for this blog in a few minutes. I have been shamefully running Drupal 4.7.3, neglecting to upgrade it for almost one year (4.7.3 was released on Aug 2006).
I’ll first upgrade to 4.7.7, have a break and then go up to 5.2. We’ll see how it goes.
I know you spend half of your daytime surfing this site, so don’t fear if you see something broken in the next few hours!

{{974682812}} This morning I decided to give Scribes another try. It has some great and cool features such a snippets (see the demo) and automatic word completion.
It also offers a pretty big set of keyboard shortcuts, some of them solve those little repetitive tasks you are used to if you edit a lot of code (like “free current line” or “free next line” to make space for more code).

{{177688159/}} To find this collaborative drawing tool, I stumbled upon Drawball that left me wordless (see an example). After some further random surfing, I got to this naked directory tree that hides lovely sketches!

{{116756833}}“The important is to feel the Rio de Janeiro carnival flow in your veins. The rest is just jam under the sun.”
Sincerely yours, flevour.