My computer better stop being so slow once I receive my mega gigabyte of RAM, or I’m going to lose my legendary temper.

You didn’t dare say it out loud (which shows a restraint and politeness I didn’t expect of you… so that probably means you’re actually just bored and uninterested), but the previous version was quite ugly. So I decided to get to something more elaborate.

First step, checking the web for references. I shouldn’t provide a link, because my new layout will appear far less pretty when you compare it to its model, but the main inspiration here is Justwatchthesky. The sidebar’s back because it just looks empty without it, and I definitively (for now) give up flexible width, even when there are big pictures: from now on they’ll be shown in popups. It’s less ergonomical, but flexible width layout is really too constraining for a designer.

Second step, because I wanted to make something really graphical and not just make do with a filtered photo or a quick, crappy monochrome logo, I spent some time on symbols.com to check out what could represent the garoo’s excellence. And here’s the result. A few layers, some lighting effects, a Photoshop checker pattern for filler, and there you go. Definitely more welcoming than the previous few versions.

No idea why the NiceTitle script (displaying link information under the mouse) recently started bugging in Mozilla, but I intend to rework it extensively someday.

As for the minilog display glitches in Explorer (unpredictable line heights, displaced underline borders), I’m aware of them, but you should just switch to Firefox, because you should anyway, and because I don’t think there’s any solution to solve the bug while keeping the layout’s elegance.

All that’s left now to do is putting the archives code back in. But I don’t feel like it right now.

How can one say ‘no’ to him? I mean, to the free month, obviously. Of course.

Damn, 4am. There goes my nice post-moving daily rhythm. Plus, days are getting shorter — and they’re already quite dark enough thank you even when it’s not night.

I want to have a Mac (everybody I know switches, one after another). Any advice.

1. I don’t like the idea of buying second hand hardware. 2. I don’t want to go bankrupt over this. 3/ I only need something that runs OS X smoothly enough, not a live CGI production station.

All the chatroom hunks are doing porn movies (times have really changed, it’s become totally normal for a gay boy to do some porn), and I’ve been abstinent for four months and have a pot belly. Life is too unfair, I’m tired of this.

To do next Friday: go back to the mall at the same time, but with better hair. And maybe a rainbow flag tied around my waist, because when you live in Smallville you can’t afford to take chances and only trust your gaydar’s reliability. He seemed to be cute, and I lost him at the stationery aisle. Damn.

Oh, yeah, and get rid of the tummy I grew in August, too. That’ll be tough, as I’m not motivated for exercising, nor for a diet. I’ll have to walk to the supermarket as often as I can.

Oh, I forgot I wanted to put the sidebar back on the home page.

Heh, I knew I’d break stuff moving the databases to another server. I had forgotten to update the RSS compilation script.

It’s still not quite right, but at least it’s much better than the temporary version. Well. At least it’s bearable. I should focus on other stuff now.

Removed the HostnameLookups on from the Apache config in order to ease the server’s load some more. If someone’s got an idea to prevent my mother (who doesn’t have a fixed IP address) to access my blog (which is on a static HTML page), I’m listening.

Next step, migrating all .htaccess settings into httpd.conf, but… phew, that’s gonna be some work.

Stupid LeChat is in heat this week, rubs herself everywhere, and managed to screw (well, no, not in that other sense) my network card’s connector — I don’t even know how.

Good thing there’s another one (but 10 Mbps instead of 100) on my motherboard.

A few hours after the databases were transferred to another machine, the server crashed even more, and longer than before. Come on, removing mysqld should more than compensate for the cost of communicating with another server, shouldn’t it?!

Damn, we’re screwed.

Transferred the databases of all sites to another server, hoping the mysqld removal from the main server will help get through the 10pm rush hour — and that I didn’t break anything in the process.

Oh, I forgot to make the cronjob to update the “n hours ago” lines every hour. And I also forgot to translate them into English. Heh.

“The new Chupa Chups, still 0% fat.” And it’s perfectly legal to talk to people like they’re dumb.

Till now, in France, light products were light, 0%-fat products were dietetic. Looks like it’s over now, and junk food makers have decided to launch an assault on 0%-neurons customers, American style.

“The Big Mac, still 0% cyanide!”

Yeah, I gave in. I hope you enjoyed the “look how good I am with Javascript” version while it lasted, because I found a way to come back to a normal setting while retaining thumbnails. There’s definitely nothing better for reading a blog in a browser.

As for the layout itself, it’s temporary. As often when I change the site’s programming, I’m not quite inspired to do something really good on the visual level.

The header image is inspired by The Face of Tomorrow, but it’s not much of a success, hence the type over my head. That’s an idea I’ll have to explore a bit more, or just abandon.

And if you’re looking for the tagboard, it’ll be on the webcams popup within a few minutes.

Shit. With the latest power outage (this one due to the stove not being on the right fuse) I lost all my modifications of the last two weeks to my OPML file. Fuck computers.

What’s nice about video personals is that it reminds me I’m better alone than in poor company, and I may not be losing that much living far from everything in general, and gays in particular…

I feel like I’m in a group of veteran blogs. We were there in 2003, maybe even 2002, we saw many a blog live and die, we saw many a battle, and most of us died. Several times, each. I’m just one of the few still alive, almost all my platoon has disappeared, nobody remembers their names, and I know almost none of the bloggers that count today (yeah, I know that by refusing to take part in Paris Carnet and other collective thingies, I’m kinda asking for it). I’m a dinosaur. A fossil. It’s common knowledge: on the net, everything goes by so much faster. I’m finished.

I need to open a barebones, crappy but somehow provocative blog on 20six. And cling desperately to the past glory of what I’ll never be again.

Next week on I’m a blogger, get me out of here!…

Before summer, I thought I was projecting my own lack of interest for blogs. But now it’s September, I’m blogging rather regularly, but the French blogging ecosystem on a whole seems not to be waking up.

Is 2004 the year when blogging has become so mainstream that people aren’t interested anymore? Or is 2004 just a globally depressive year in France?

Sunny weather makes me want to kill myself. Can’t wait for winter to come. I’ll be less frustrated about spending the days in my room with nothing to do outside. Right now in Paris I’d be getting a tan, and more.

Which 24 Character Are You? (via Arnal)…

For years I’ve been thinking the Windows sounds system had a problem, because when there was a system error, the sound was saturated every other time…

I want the head the man responsible for the stereo mini-jack connector. How could it ever become a standard when all it can good for is false contacts?!

Power failures for no reason. Hot water failures for no reason. Satellite TV failures for no reason. Wifi failures for no reason. Nobody told me I had died and gone to Hell. And why? Oh, well, I do know why.

It’s a bet, I have to tell you this: X had a threesome with his boyfriend and Y. He thinks it won’t count if Y isn’t the one announcing it on his own blog, but I say you trust me. And I have far more readers.

Socks in bed: yes or no? Because I’m rather a yes-guy, so if we are to sleep together someday we might as well get our act straight before…

As I checked the logs, I was surprised nobody ever clicked the ViaBloga ad. Heh. I had forgotten to add the click counter in the URL for the text ads.

There, it had to happen. It’s September.
I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!