Cherry-picking Pearls in San Francisco

scooter : no fear

Audacious try

 
but actually, unsuccessful, his engine got flooded a few meters later
 

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Six Apart Europe Flooded

And then... we were wet :(

... despite we are located at the third floor!

Loic, worried for his bike :

 Water spouting out from the ground...

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Geekbind new release 1.0 - working on Tiger

I was complaining some days ago that the nifty geekbind wasn't working on tiger. Hurrah! This is now completely fixed in the new 1.0 release. As a bonus you also get a new nicer interface, a new english website and some new experimental features. If you don't know geekbind already, just go download it now; It allows you to move or resize a window on OS X using every pixel of the window's surface (and not only small widgets). It's much more comfortable and you save time (It's in almost every Unix window manager) Kudos to vincent for his work !

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Scrabble

There might be something about spelling on my blog currently.
Look at this fun one about scrable on Ovid's LJ.

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I miss squash

I'm eager to have my little problem fixed. I miss squash.
In the meantime : look at this nice shot on flickr : power and suppleness

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L'orthographe chez les jeunes... skyblog

C'est loin d'être un scoop, l'orthographe sur skyblog (oops skyrockblog ? - ha non pas de bol : squatté) est une horreur. Je ne suis pas un modèle dans le domaine (pas taper !).... mais je pense que l'on est loin d'une amélioration dans les prochaines années :

• En effet, avant, le fléau c'était la télévision : C'était malheureux, mais le Jeune regardait plus la télé et lisait moins
• Sans compter la presse qui voyait (et voit toujours) son lectorat se déliter tranquillement.
• Ensuite les SMS ont débarqué avec l'orthographe raccourcie et surtout le style 'kool' qui rassemble la communauté (Je fais l'impasse sur le verlan)
• Aujourd'hui on arrive a une situation complètement inédite où les jeunes sont producteurs de leur propre contenu (en très grande quantité)!

Et là... c'est le drame. J'imagine que l'orthographe ca rentre à force d'identification et de reconnaissance, alors comment nos chères petites têtes blondes vont se débrouiller avec skyblog comme référence ?

Bref le bloc note ne va certainement pas tarder a faire rouspéter l'académie...

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OpenWRT with WPA Radius... nas trick

I've finally installed OpenWRT. And I'm very happy with it. I've just been struggling quite hard with the nas binary (Nas is the closed source tool from linksys that sets up WPA)

I've added my 2cents in the OpenWrtFaq :
Don't use -l switch if you are not using the bridged mode of the router. Indeed, In this case nas silently fails as far as I can tell. '-l eth1' wont work

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Geekbind isn't working with Tiger...

Arg...

I really like GeekBind. GeekBind is a little prefpane for Mac OS X. Which let you yo grab a window using any of it's pixel (providing you hold the appropriate shortcut).

You can also resize a window using another shortcut. This is really handy especially for quickly move some windows out of the way. (Very UNIX-ish)

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Squash may hurt

This morning I played squash as usual :

but I ended here :

That's to say : emergencies, and it's a lot less entertaining.

Nothing very bad hopefuly : Just an hurt ankle

One thing was just cool, Farid with whom I am playing for several years wasn't playing this morning, but I met him at the Emergency Room since he's working there...  So he took care of me, and i enjoyed a little visit of nurses dressroom/restroom (And I met miss-hospital!)

 
This is screwing up all my agenda.  Shit happens...