Ah, looks like Safari doesn’t consider the ‘…’ characters as a punctuation (Cf. the thumbnail). Serves me well for auto-converting my plain text entries to fancy typography.

A sixteen-square-meter room on the rue des Archives, in the middle of the Marais, for the price of a twenty-five on the edge of Paris? Come on, are you a self-respecting fag or not… Come on, it’s totally refreshed, including the faucets and fittings, a real shower, a place to put a washing machine, double glazings… Come on, you’ve been dreaming of living rue des Archives for ten years… Come on, five tall flights of stairs, you won’t even need to use the elliptic bike anymore… Come onnnn…

Living in a flat like this, I’d be this close to applying as a webmaster in a large corporation (provided I get flexible schedules). But that’s stupid, because I could afford better then. Life is a vicious circle like that.

Come ooonnnnnnn…

P.S. Meeting the owner to sign the lease on Monday night.

Répondez, c’est pour votre bien : si vous allez sur http://www.garoo.net/ vous tombez sur la version française ou anglaise ?

P.S. Ne vous embêtez pas à effacer les cookies, actuellement la page d’accueil n’en tient plus compte, mais utilise le content-negotiation et la langue par défaut que vous avez choisie dans votre navigateur. D’où l’intérêt de savoir si une majorité de lecteurs ont bien un navigateur configuré pour préférer le français à l’anglais.

• If I’d known it was so hard to find a flat in Paris, I’d have… I’d have lived with my parents until I was 29 (or more).

• Damnit it’s cold.

• The Sony Ericsson W800i is much smaller than I imagined. Yum. Too bad it’s not quite the right time, what with looking for a flat and having to pay a rent and all.

• Damnit, seriously, it’s too cold, I’m gonna die.

• Ah, and Apple’s 30-inch monitor is bigger than I imagined. Yum, too.

• But why are the heaters heating more outside than inside?

• I wouldn’t be bored to the point of wanting to rip my brains out if I didn’t have to close NetNewsWire if I want to be able to use the mini at all.

• And I’m writing this just as the PSP learns to manage RSS and pocasts. Must be a sign. Too bad I’ve already gotten my Xmas presents in advance. Funny thing, I hesitated to add a PSP or DS to my AZ wishlist.

• If I’m gonna be bored in front of my screen all the time, why do I want so much to come to Paris anyway? I can do that for free in Smallville.

• I should go to the movies, but people don’t know how to enjoy life: everybody’s working tomorrow morning, so they can’t. And spending nine euros to spend the night alone is too lame.

Must mean something that I’d rather get impatient in front of a sluggish Mac mini (mainly burdened by NetNewsWire, I think) than use the PC that goes with this flat.

Ah well, not even that. Smallville is completely locked up, and by the time I’d gotten to the train station by foot (which I’m not quite sure would be possible at all) the counter would have been closed. No, of course there isn’t a vending machine.

I’m gonna have to wait one hour for a transfer because there’s too much snow to get a ride there. I hate living in the country.

The visitor side is almost done, now I must work on the administration scripts.

Oh, and I forgot, I have to buy the domain names, too.

It’s so cold now that I’m hardly sweating by the end of fifty minutes of elliptical bike. I wonder whether it’s a constant that you start burning fat off after twenty minutes, or it’s linked to body temperature, in which case I should turn the additional heater on if I don’t want to get screwed. But it’s too late anyway, I’m leaving for Paris in three days (well, God and the train conductors willing).

Biscottes Heudebert aux noisettes : bon, mais trop salé. Ca gâche le goût presque nutella-esque.

La mise à jour du terminal Canalsat est assez jolie (forcément, on passe de rouge et noir à gris sur gris), mais ça rame et plante toujours autant. Et la mise à jour n’a certainement pas été faite par des spécialites en ergonomie : au lieu d’appuyer sur “+”, une flèche et “Ok” pour changer de langue, je dois maintenant appeler sur “Pilote”, attendre cinq minutes que le terminal soit prêt à afficher le menu, appuyer sur “Ok”, naviguer dans le menu jusqu’à “Choix des langues”, appuyer sur “Ok”, sélectionner la langue, appuyer sur “Ok”. Dire que l’interface de changement de langue était le seul truc que je trouvais vraiment satisfaisant dans l’ancienne version.

P.S. Et voilà que je n’ai plus du tout de VM sur TCM.

Improving, improving… the way it’s going, eighty years from now I’ll win the million. Oh, actually, if it keeps doubling every week it’ll happen much faster.

Ripley is dead and waiting to be taken apart and sold, Lain is now hibernating, and Dalloway sleeps deeply every night like any good Mac; as a result, there was no noise in the room and I was awakened by my stepfather emptying the dishwasher at nine in the morning and couldn’t manage to get back to sleep.

Let’s try and use this opportunity to change my rhythm a bit and be ready to get up in the morning all next week — which should be devoted, if all still goes well, to looking for an apartment in Paris (even though I have really reached the point where I’m completely demotivated and willing to keep stagnating dully in Smallville for another five years).

I was researching blikis (hybrids of blogs and wikis) for the opening of Tao of Mac’s blog, and it made me want to reprogram my site a bit in order to really bring the blog and wiki together, à la Tao of Mac. But I’m not sure I have a real use for a wiki, I’m not much into making an encyclopedia.

Oh, and as far as my research goes… all bliki engines have unrealistic technical requirements, the WPWiki WordPress plugin seems to have disappeared, maybe because WordPress does static pages (which is far from a real wiki, but will work for xxxx), and the only thing I found was based on WordPress plus a wiki engine, so it was too much of a hassle and I didn’t complete the installation.

Oh, wait, I forgot to test REST. Bah, that’ll be for another time. But in 92 lines I doubt it does what I’m looking for.

Of course, I could code and distribute my own bliki CMS. But I’ve got better things to do. Well, other things to do. Well… I don’t wanna.

Epilogue: of course, rsync hasn’t worked either — but since I’d used the –progress option the error messages were drowned in the list of uploaded files, so I only realized the problem when I checked on the Mac side and saw there were missing files.

So I ended up having to use Samba (which, fortunately, is included in the Knoppix live CD, you only have to launch it). Not only did it take the whole night (I can’t even imagine what makes this thing take so much time, even though I had connected my Mac to the PC with a crossover cable, sacrificing my internet access for all that time), but now it’s not even a question of being afraid I might have lost some files — I just have to live with the fact that some will be missing, period. Let’s get rid of our virtual possessions and be zen.

Incidentally, I found out the problem’s origin wasn’t so much in Linux or OS X, but rather in Samba itself: even on the Linux side, filenames with accents are unreadable. I’d say I could have misconfigured Samba’s charset, but the unconfigured version on the Knoppix CD had absolutely no problem reading files and understanding accents, so… I don’t know, screw this shit, forget about Linux, long live the Mac. And, come to think of it, I could use an Xserve RAID with the fastest network connection — how does it work with Firewire?

It’s fortunate I already have precise, definite plans to go and look for a flat in Paris, or I’d be quite willing to let go of the idea and give in again to the cheap, easy, (moderately) care-free life in Normandy. A few more weeks and I’d certainly have been ready to cancel.

They’ve stolen my (ex-)wall again.

The www.garoo.net root doesn’t employ cookies anymore to redirect to the correct language, but instead uses Apache’s functionalities to send a different HTML file depending on the browser’s announcement of preferred language. (If you have bookmarked www.garoo.net/en/ you won’t see a difference. If you haven’t, well, you should bookmark the version of your choice.)

I’m not sure whether that’s for the better or not — considering pure theory, it’s cleaner, but I’ve never really been a fan of this technique (because sites usually don’t offer their visitors a manual way to choose another language afterwards).

Ah, I may have found a configuration that’d put all my computers and external drives to best use. Are the Mac mini’s DVI/TV adapter’s schematics standard? I just remembered I had a DVI/TV cable that came with my (expensive and now under-used) Matrox card.

Thanks to K for not answering any of my emails: it gave me time to realize I’d be better off buying a used DV cam that’ll work both as an iSight and a TV capture box.

Trois bons numéros. Youpi.

Burp.

No precise recipe, because the one I found was way too liquid: I spent my time adding flour and the result still isn’t quite satisfactory.

So, basically: one portion flour, one portion maizena, one tenth of a portion of sugar, salt, yeast, an egg, black and red peppers, cocktail sausages and a pan full of oil. The preparation must be quite thick, and the guests must have some appetite.

Re-burp.

Ah, starts to smell like winter.

I don’t give a damn about Star Wars, but if that isn’t a con…

I’ve recently seen repeated mentions of “corn dogs” in English-speaking blogs (must be seasonal?), so I finally decided to check it out on Wikipedia. Makes me hungry… I’ve got to buy some maizena. And sausages. What kind of sausages?

I’m not used at all to taking out my pencil whenever an idea comes to my head, so it’ll take some time. Besides, I don’t have ides or thoughts at all these days.