I love standards… And you should too. This time I’m not talking about web standards (although I love them too). I’m talking about hardware standards. When your hardware supports an industry standard, you can be sure your hardware will work on any OS, without having to install some crappy drivers. Winmodems… I remember the bad …
I read on Planet Gnome that there’s a plan to drop current theme engines to move to a CSS-like system. That’s really a great idea, and I was stoked to learn that Qt already has it. This is the kind of change that can really make a difference in the number and quality of available …
Recently I’ve been to 2 events organized by companies advertising their APIs, their platform: Facebook and Google. The Facebook event was pretty exciting, not because of any technical prowess but because of what it enables to do: write applications using an existing, big, friend network (what they call proudly the “social graph”). It’s cool because …
I’ve started to build a Theremin. I have one diode missing in my kit, I’m waiting for the company I bought it from to ship it to me… I can’t wait to hear it!
I was reading Wikipedia today and tumbled on a page, where I saw something pretty common in Wikipedia: Virtual Console (バーチャルコンソール, Bācharu Konsōru), Virtual Console – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Bācharu Konsōru”. This is completely stupid. Who had the great idea to take the Japanese phonetic version of English words, and translate it back into …
I thought I was done with tinyMCE when I ditched it from Flock’s code months ago. But I’ve just installed a WordPress blog for my dear, and she’s having some problems with TinyMCE – the default editor for WordPress. When she writes in Japanese, she makes paragraphs of one sentence per line. So she separates …
You probably remember the mp2 player incident? Well, the crazy labeler in our office stroke again, suggesting that my Nintendo DS may be a little bit bulky. Now I know more: The crazy labeler is an iPod lover He probably has a Nintendo DS lite Considering that (1) every Flocker received an iPod nano for …
When I arrived at the office this morning, I found that my iRiver H340 has been vandalized, probably by an iPod lover… The iRiver is a great geeky machine, and mine is running RockBox and is consequently even geekier than a plain H300. So yes, it looks a little bit bulky, it’s less sexy than …
I have redesigned loisant.org once again… Hopefully, this time is for good! I was looking for a CMS that: was not a blog (I have Caffeine lab for that, I needed a place for permanent information) allows me to edit pages easily is simple enough to have only what I need, so I don’t need …
An important feature of Flock is that it indexes your history. You can find any page that you visited just by searching using one word present in that page. I find it very useful, but it’s not working correctly for Japanese of Chinese. To index a page, Flock needs to separate words. Additionally, different forms …
