Miscellaneous

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).

{{184294750}}“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.” Via A Billion Monkeys Can’t Be Wrong. I booked my flight for Barcelona for September. I have never booked a flight so much time ahead. By the way I am seriously considering to participate to the Erasmus program for next year.

If you still don’t want Bobby as your personal voice trainer, check this and this out.

{{137615942}}This is the perfect execution of an idea I had for 6 or 7 months now. I thought even about the “share with friends, family or the world part”. Tumblr got close to my sketches, but this is almost 100% identical to what could be my braindump on the topic. Great, makes me feel “on the web2.0 track” on one hand and pretty sorry for not being fast enough on the other (hand). Gah.

{{452223272}}This post at SvN turned on the light on a problem I had never thought about: public transport maps. I think the proposed solutions apply expecially to subway systems, in that accuracy of paths through the city can be left off in favour of more usable/readable maps.
It’s nice to see how in fact we are used to vertical/horizontal/45 degress mappings without this affecting our effort to decode the map.
Sometimes it’s nice to watch with new eyes everyday things.

{{184667144}}As a self-defined web2.0 enthusiast, this screencast leaves me wordless.

{{407179964}} “XSLT is extracoroporeal, a mental status, created by W3C on drugs”. Quote by the Chef. It made my day.

{{232627186}}No. Really. I mean it. My Firefox tabs set has never been so full of interesting and great tabs as today. Phishing attacks to OpenID. Too bad, I was so close to start using it. As a web-app wish-to-be-developer Slingshot leaves me wordless. You are probably “widly inefficient” at reading. Go double your reading rate.