Melon chewing gum with a raspberry liquid core. Excellent, and so seasonal.

For a while now I’ve been thinking that current technologies should allow for the creation of new and improved (sugar-free, preferredly) candy varieties, mixing flavors and textures, being really original. Looks like it’s coming.

Although I remember reading that fake sugar makes you diabetic just as much as real sugar. Unless it’s only true of aspartame, and polyols only cause digestive troubles, and ultimately colon cancers?

Damn… I think I’ve got the site structure figured out for my TV blog. Now I’ve got to decide whether to go through with it. I hate that particular moment.

I’m so tired of not blogging anything of interest here, and of knowing that most visitors (and even regular readers) believe this site really, wholly represents me, that I’m (again?) feeling like launching a thematic group blog. A multi-autored blog so I could express myself more, and better — that may sound as a paradox, but isn’t that the motivation behind most of those?

The hardest part wouldn’t be to find a theme (well, let’s see, television perhaps? or something else — but not computing, the web or Apple, because those are already too crowded, even in the sole French blogosphere) but people I’d want to share my space, and voice, with. Bloggers worthy of me. Assuming there are any.

Yeah, it’s one of those days. It’s summer, and I’m locked up inside, with drawn blinds even because otherwise my air conditioning can’t keep up, and it’s even Gay Pride in Paris, and do I hate my life.

Meh.

Et puis… passe encore que personne ne m’ait invité à passer le week-end de la gay pride marche fière à Paris, parce que les quelques personnes qui n’ont pas (raison d’) avoir peur de me parler savent que j’aurais refusé. Mais pourquoi je n’ai pas reçu d’invitation à la soirée de Têtu ? Moi !

Tant que j’ai un post ouvert — et vu que ce n’est pas hors sujet pour un post dans la catégorie “gay” — pourquoi la diffusion de Sex and the City sur Téva se met à bégayer comme un trente-trois tours ? Même pour des sous-titres ils trouvent le moyen d’être en retard sur leur programme…

A moins qu’ils prévoient d’arrêter la diffusion pour l’été et de ne commencer la dernière saison qu’à la rentrée — ou jamais (c’est de Téva qu’on parle, il faut être lucide, c’est déjà un miracle qu’ils aient diffusé cinq saisons en VO à un horaire quasi fixe). Argh.

I was going to make a long, detailed post with illustrations and all… and realized it would actually be a duplicate of the wiki’s contents. So instead I updated the Dalloway page’s list of all programs, accessories, widgets I use, and some details about them.

Why should you care? Because I spend all my time on the net, try every interesting program and accessory that’s been released, subscribe to any RSS feeds that can update me on whatever comes out — in short, slackers like me have a use for overbooked workers like you: sifting through a sea of software and returning with what’s really worthy.

And, as rarely happens when I start writing a blog post, I personally know of a couple readers who’ll actually be interested in this.

What you’ll see on the screenshot above (reduced by 75%, because, well, you know, it better be):

• in the dock’s applications section, left to right: Finder, BlogThumb (personal AppleScript that captures and uploads thumbnails for my blog), X Resource Graph, Safari, NetNewsWire, Thunderbird, Adium X, Mail, iCal, Address Book, TextWrangler, VoodooPad Lite, CocoThumbX, MacJanitor, iTunes, hotTunes, Clutter, Grab (don’t ask me where some of the icons come from, I downloaded every possible icon set on the web)

• in the dock’s shortcuts section, left to right: a temporary shortcut to a game I have to try, the ~garoo folder, the ~/Documents folder, a pictures folder, the ~/Library folder, the Dashboard widgets folder, a Saved Searches folder (with elementary Spotlight smart folders: Label Blue, Label Red, Label Yellow, Modified This Week), the /Applications folder, the trash

• in the menubar, left to right: Adium, iSnip, QuickSilver, the AppleScript menu (which I don’t ever use), the Keychain Access menu (for the Lock Screen option), the fast user switching menu, the menu control, MenuCalendarClock, Spotlight

• on the desktop, the X Resource Graph window and the Clutter shortcuts

• in the background, a David Lanham illustration

Links, details, and everything you can’t see on the capture (plug-ins, extensions, widgets), in the (almost) complete list of software I use on Dalloway.

Yesterday my stepfather found it odd I’d pile up so many food cans.

It’s just that I don’t like being limited in my choices when it’s time to cook my dinner. If I want to cook beans three times in the week, I can, it’s all in stock. Doesn’t it make sense?

Au fait, maintenant que j’en ai un… comment je suis censé le prononcer, en français, pour avoir l’air intelligent sans faire trop frimeur ? C’est un imac ou un aïmac ? (Et ipod ou aïpod ? émac ou imac ? parce que c’est précisément à cause du risque de confusion, en français, entre iMac et eMac que la question est importante.)

Notez que c’est purement consultatif, vu que je persiste à dire (dans ma tête, parce que j’ai rarement l’occasion d’en parler à voix haute) macoèsse ixe, contre l’avis général.

Notez aussi que je me doute de ce que vous allez me répondre, parce que, vous, je vous connais, ça ne vous gêne pas d’avoir l’air de frimeurs qui se la pètent avec leur aïmac.

Since I was getting fed up with posting half of my contents into a general void, the main RSS feed now includes updates for all sections of this site (except the wiki, which has no feed or point). If you had already subscribed to the snaplog or gallery feeds besides the blog, you can unsubscribe, or you’ll receive everything twice; if you hadn’t, well… now you have.

It’d been a while since I had wanted to do that, because it doesn’t make that much sense for anyone to subscribe to only one part of the site (and because I hadn’t originally realized that the way Bloglines offers to check boxes for each feed you want to subscribe to on a site isn’t the norm), but it required… you know… work.

P.S. Come to think about it, no, not the minilog. Poor signal to noise ratio.

I wanted to go for something much more different, but couldn’t make it good enough. I’m not in a Photoshop mood these days, so we’ll do with that.

Doesn’t work very well with Internet Explorer, but hey it’s 2005 now so just upgrade to Firefox already or die.

Oh great, now I too will have to refresh my design, because all of a sudden it’s gotten old. Actually, I’ve been thinking about it for a couple of weeks now, but I’m unimaginably reluctant to go back to my PC in order to work some Photoshop and CSS. And since I don’t think it’s going to change quite soon, the redesign will have to wait.

Plus, I’m actually back to a semblance of beginning of a writing mood — it’s amazing what two excellent episode of Carnivàle can do to someone’s creativity and morale after ten days of slow dive into depression — so I guess I’ve got better stuff to focus on than my blog’s layout. Like, for instance, why my air conditioner has been trying to drive me insane for the past two days, waking me up at dawn with sounds like doors slamming and furniture crashing. Now I have to wait until it does quit conditioning air, and drive 100km to have it replaced. Until then, it’ll just keep toying with my sanity. The hardest part is refraining from throwing it out the window — the store might not want to take it back afterwards.

I hate technology. Hey, it’d been sort of a while since I last wrote that.

You can feel the pepper. And the lime. As for the ginger, I can’t tell, but I was definitely in better shape after than before (I caught a cold a couple of days ago, due to the air conditioner being too close to the bed, and the bed being too close to the ground.) In short, it’s rather good, and rather energizing.

I don’t know why it shocked me so much as to take a picture, but I find it so ridiculous to baptize a packaging system according to the noise it makes when you microwave it. Besides, I didn’t even hear it whistle at all.