Sex, fornication and a beautiful body…
Yamaha seems to have put the AEX500 back into their catalog. Hum, well, after checking, this is at least for the UK. I may have to talk to my local dealer…
Christmas isn’t that far away, anyway…
Things are beginning to settle a bit; I have an internet access at home again, I can almost do things that are interesting rather than things that really need to be done.
I have a list of books that I have read or I am currently reading or I intend to read in the (more or less) near future. One short thing I would like to do (“short”, here means that I could almost do it in less than a month and really do it) is a best-books list (mostly in the computer field). I don’t really want to do a full review of all my books, just pull a few titles.
I also would like again to do some translations. Maybe a book (but that would be a tremendous effort and I would probably not be able to publish it anywhere), or maybe just articles (that may be easier to get arrangments for publication).
I would also like to build some kind of framework/tools association to allow me to build my web site from a simpler syntax (compared to docbook, anyway, that’s easy). (Currently, this is a mix of Docbook/website and rcs — no, I’m not oldschool!).
And another nice thing would be to have a tool to sync between different feed readers, but that’s another story.
Again, “No time, no time, no time!”.
Or I could just do something with my fingers…
I don’t know if this one is comestible, but I needed to test if the html code provided by flickr was ok with wordpress. And it seems to do the trick (not that I ever had any doubt about it, mind you).
(note that this yet again another point for/against having multiple software (or service providers) vs one True CMS. Again, to integrate pictures in my blog, on my website, I use a third-party service with a differente interface and different user account. Yes it works, but it is also cumbersome to use at first).
I don’t publish much, but I like the idea of being able to publish whatever I feel like publishing, being my thoughts of the moment (this blog, for example), something more technical with a need of a certain semantic (which I usually do with DocBook), a few thousands pictures of my cat, or a linked-self-confined space (aka, a wiki).
Currently, that means using wordpress (online), Docbook and its website extension (offline) and rubyphoto (offline) (or flickr because it is so web-2.0 that I couldn’t do withouh — do you feel the painful irony?). If I choose to setup a public (or at least external), I may choose between Instiki or dokuwiki (or phpwiki, or…).
But in my quest of limiting the administration tasks at home, this means yet again another tool or interface to learn. I know that if I really wanted to stop being a sysadmin and just use the tools, I could use external services, like I do for pictures, with flickr. But there is still the problem of having n tools and interfaces which can’t always be integrated in my own webspace (and that also means n accounts, which is enough of an headache).
What I really want is a CMS, with existing extensions for my needs, with generation of static pages (because I am the only editor of my webspace and that would be a waste of ressources). Doing everything with Docbook/Website was fun for a moment, but I can’t edit the pages if my main computer is offline and I wouldn’t try to import the xsl files on my hosting server (and I’m not even talking about generating a blog or a wiki with such tools).
I’d like to use a simple formating syntax (textile would be good enough), have easy linking, being able to link more complex documents (external documents or files), and have some specific content (pictures and chronological content). I want the look to be easy to define, I want to be able to edit almost anything from anywhere, possibly allowing comments. But I also want it to be a static display.
On one side, you have:
With a huge 250MB inbox*
(and I love how the little note specify that this is only available to US users).
And on this other side, you have:
You are currently using 8 MB (0%) of your 2564 MB.
Yeah, size does not matter…
Some people can only work in a fully silent environment, others use classical music and I had colleagues which fan of things like Amon Tobin when real work was needed. In my case, I need things that would mostly be considered as violent, mostly metal or industrial bands. My most recent entries on my real-work-needed playlist would be:
The oldest would be a list of classics of Mötörhead… I just need fast-paced angry sound to fight against those bugs! (well, in fact, it simply the best way for me to accelerate the way I think —- Sometimes, if I only feel the need to take a rest and take some distance to think, I will probably fire up some Rachmaninov).
I wanted to have a good listing of software (or computers) related writings out of the web/blogs/jungle, and this looked like a good opportunity. But this ends up as a really short part on software (and with some good and some other texts not that good in comparison) and some longer parts on related subjects which — for a geek — are just plain boring.
Not sure to invest in any new volume…