Underachievement Unlocked

My life: a lot of potential and very little realization.

Very few posts on this blog, as well. But you might find some entertaining stuff if you go back a few years in the archives.

Hee! OMG, OMG, I just pushed a notification on my iPhone!

# 2010-02-28 23:16:30 – via Twitter

Can't decide if the new-message sound I just made for @webispink is cool or horrible.

# 2010-02-28 16:58:36 – via Twitter

— Tu as essayē de mettre un smiley ? Y'a :) qui s'est affichē, comme quand les smileys marchent pas.

— Oui. C'est… un smiley.

# 2010-02-28 01:13:43 – via Twitter

Merde, merde, merde, ce nom de domaine est disponible, il me le faut absolument.

# 2010-02-28 01:02:15 – via Twitter

Got the in-app purchases working. Push notifications, tomorrow.

# 2010-02-27 23:09:20 – via Twitter

Hum. Il est nouveau, ou pas, ce double-menton qui ētait cachē par ma barbe ?

# 2010-02-27 16:08:08 – via Twitter

"Grindr reached 500,000 members today." Urgh.

# 2010-02-26 14:24:56 – via Twitter

Used my own tarot app for the first time last night, and got the Moon. How delightfully appropriate.

# 2010-02-25 17:32:51 – via Twitter

I can't imagine anything better to do than eat, but I'm not hungry. So frustrating.

# 2010-02-23 22:52:40 – via Twitter

Dim bathroom lights do such a wonderful thing for self-esteem.

# 2010-02-23 19:27:54 – via Twitter

Do I really want to pay to renew my iPhone developer contract when all gay apps might be pulled from the Store any day now?

# 2010-02-23 14:04:35 – via Twitter

Quatre ou cinq fois moins de charge serveur sur @nopicnodial avec le mēme nombre de connectēs qu'hier aprēs-midi. Reprogrammation rēussie.

# 2010-02-22 20:10:36 – via Twitter

Je m'apprēte ā reprogrammer entiērement le chat de @nopicnodial pour me passer de MySQL… en live sur le site. #ineedanintervention

# 2010-02-21 22:32:37 – via Twitter

Oh, how I'm gonna be sorry I taught the cat to sneak under the bed sheet.

# 2010-02-21 01:14:42 – via Twitter

Et pour ça je dois me taper en prime les pubs en gif animē du nouvel album d'Emmanuelle Seigner.

# 2010-02-21 00:37:10 – via Twitter

Je sais que je laggue, mais je me suis dēcidē ā lancer Spotify pour voir : Lady Gaga, ā ēcouter, ça n'a vraiment strictement aucun intērēt ?

# 2010-02-21 00:29:30 – via Twitter

Let's just say it's still too cold to be productive.

# 2010-02-19 19:28:24 – via Twitter

I'm out of ice cream. I don't think you understand. I WANT ICE CREAM!

# 2010-02-18 23:49:16 – via Twitter

Il fait trop froid pour %s.

# 2010-02-18 22:09:59 – via Twitter

Just realized that there must be an interesting market for iPhone apps with a Japanese version.

# 2010-02-18 16:59:04 – via Twitter

Woohoo, 7 Australian dollars. At this rate I might get a wire transfer from Apple Australia in 2011.

# 2010-02-18 16:51:34 – via Twitter

Got a (20-euro) surge of iPhone app sales in France; the likeliest explanation is that advertising on @nopicnodial is starting to pay off.

# 2010-02-17 13:22:51 – via Twitter

Google Reader has added I Has a Hotdog to my Explore folder, and damn I want a doggie.

# 2010-02-17 01:57:07 – via Twitter

I never cared to know what "cochon de lait" means, but you can't eat "suckling pig" without knowing what it is. How honestly barbaric.

# 2010-02-16 20:50:14 – via Twitter

Pas mal satisfait de ce que j'ai fait dans Photoshop, mais gravement la flemme de passer ā XCode.

# 2010-02-16 18:15:02 – via Twitter

I want to make an RPG / interactive graphic novel for the iPhone.

# 2010-02-14 17:13:53 – via Twitter

There's more than one way to skin a cat, and I'm gonna try a different one every day until the damn thing stops waking me up in the morning.

# 2010-02-14 13:45:51 – via Twitter

Vous aussi, votre chat essaie de bouffer votre congēlateur ? Celui-lā, c'est une obsession.

# 2010-02-14 00:26:29 – via Twitter

J'aurais pu me coucher au lieu de descendre un pain de mie entier qui va me tenir ēveillē toute la nuit.

# 2010-02-13 02:29:10 – via Twitter

Ways of consuming RSS feeds change over time; so do my posting habits. On the one hand, I’m not posting as many short links as I once did, and I doubt that’s going to change in the near future (in part thanks to Twitter, in part because my blogging has changed, and that’s the way it is). On the other hand, everybody’s using Google Reader for reading blogs nowadays, and that user experience is somewhat different from old-school aggregators — articles are displayed at a glance instead of having you pick from a list (I know that there’s a list view, but who uses that?), and the result is more conducive to short posts. Plus, Twitter has also changed the way people expect to receive their content.

For all these reasons, I’ve switched around the way my feeds handle small posts and links: the main feed (index.xml, the one everybody’s following) will be updated with every short post right as it is published instead of waiting for a daily digest at midnight. And those who think that’s too much content in the RSS reader can follow a digests feed instead (replace index.xml with digests.xml), that works the old way.

Those changes don’t apply to my Twitter posts, which will still be aggegated once a day. Because it’s pretty obvious that, if you want to get my tweets just as I post them, you should follow me right where I post them.

While I’m at it, the Twitter account that alerts you of new posts on my blog is renamed to @garooRSS (people who already followed it don’t have to do anything, it’s the same account).

# 2010-02-12 19:08:52

Nothing ever goes right anymore.

# 2010-02-12 16:27:31 – via Twitter

J'ai ētē bien inspirē de faire pour quinze jours de courses mardi. J'ai senti passer les 100€ mais je n'aurai pas ā conduire dans la neige.

# 2010-02-11 14:05:24 – via Twitter

Surprisingly, Google doesn't seem to know what happens if you hit a snowman with a taser.

# 2010-02-11 01:17:20 – via Twitter

Couldn't care less about CPU upgrades on machines I can't afford but I keep refreshing the Apple Store page because, hey, it's an activity.

# 2010-02-09 15:34:19 – via Twitter

Maybe it's not mysterious at all and I just had a surge of productivity when it started to be less cold. Now it's freezing and lazy again.

# 2010-02-09 14:44:55 – via Twitter

Ok, after more research, I think I'm chickening out of opening my Mac Mini.

# 2010-02-09 01:32:32 – via Twitter

I think I want to upgrhack my Mac Mini and retire the iMac. I only wish I had the latest model's two display ports.

# 2010-02-09 00:49:56 – via Twitter

Today I absolutely can't stand my computer setup anymore. I need… something. Anything. I don't know.

# 2010-02-08 23:29:10 – via Twitter

Je crois que je devrais plagier complētement le nouveau Facebook pour @nopicnodial.

# 2010-02-08 20:23:22 – via Twitter

“Biscuits Oreo, vous allez en bouffer”

Une grosse marque à gros rendement, pas comme les LU

Un consultant bossant pour Kraft et préférant rester anonyme m’a expliqué récemment que l’agrogéant « se fout complètement de ses petites marques de biscuits », celles rachetées à Danone en 2007, en même temps que les stars de LU, les Prince, les Mikado, les LU Petit Déjeuner…

Si Kraft laisse les marques LU mourir, je fais sēcession ! Toute ma jeunesse…

# 2010-02-08 20:22:03

Ah, right, that's the other thing I can't do now without having to pay rent. Have sex, and spend the day belting out "Be Italian."

# 2010-02-08 20:03:10 – via Twitter

My day would be less wasted if I did something. Wouldn't it? I think. Can't be sure. Guess we'll never know.

# 2010-02-08 16:24:50 – via Twitter

Well, do something!

# 2010-02-08 01:12:47 – via Twitter

Et vas-y que j'ai des poils de barbe blancs.

# 2010-02-03 17:17:07 – via Twitter

La torture d'une nuit entiēre sans internet. Heureusement, j'avais du retard sur mes sēries.

# 2010-02-03 14:24:42 – via Twitter