Musical meme
28/05/2005 03:14 | Categories: Blogging, Music | 0 Comments
Thanks to my friend Ignasi, it's my turn to continue with the meme and passing the baton onto 5 more people 
Total size of music files in my computer
Last record bought
Song that I am listening to now
Five songs that I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me
5 persons to whom I am passing the baton
Do you think they will take the baton and continue the meme?
Browsing through Technorati
28/05/2005 01:31 | Categories: LifeType | 4 Comments
Looking through the links I got after searching for "plog" in Technorati, I came accross a few new sites. One which I particularly liked is the new blogging community of PHPTunisie. It does'nt look too big, but I like their work on the summary page and I hope that they enjoy using pLog
While browsing through those links, I also found some other users who didn't like pLog... Like one who said "I think that the Wordpress core is better than pLog" (say wha'? Any hard facts or are you talking out of your ass?) or another one who switched because Opera doesn't support HTMLArea very well (like it's our fault -- did he ever try our non-visual editor of posts?), or even another one who tried to upgrade, didn't succeed at the first attempt and switched to WP. Sometimes it's unbelievable how little effort people put into things...
Anyway, I am glad they left. We don't need this kind of users in our community.
That's a funny number plate :)
27/05/2005 05:50 | Categories: Moblogged | 0 Comments
That's a funny number plate 
Testing out sofas (and beds) for our new house...
27/05/2005 02:00 | Categories: Moblogged | 2 Comments
Testing out sofas (and beds) for our new house... We have on furniture that we can reuse 
Nokia 770
26/05/2005 07:54 | Categories: LifeType | 1 Comments
The new Nokia 770 was introduced to the public today. The Nokia 770 is some sort of an "Internet tablet" that allows to browse the web, read emails, etc, from virtually anywhere as long as there is a WiFi connection or a Bluetooth connection to a GPRS phone available.
This wouldn't be news (yet another internet-capable-tablet-pda-gadget) if it wasn't because this one runs Debian Linux, with a GNOME-based environment on top of X11. The environment is called Maemo and the project page is already available, where users and developers will be able to find resources and new software for the platform. The browser that the thing is using is a GTK port of KHTML (yes, it really is KHTML running on GTK!) in the same way that Apple ported KHTML to Cocoa and created WebCore. All the methods from the Qt libraries which are used in KHTML were re-implemented using calls to GTK (Cocoa in OS X) while keeping the same interfaces, providing the "glue" between KHTML and Cocoa or Maemo. If interested in how Apple did it, check out the KWQ library from the WebCore code.
I think that this is a great move for Nokia, despite their schizophrenic behaviour when it comes to patents and OSS (first they lobby for patents in the EU and then they support Linux with patents from their own portfolio), but from a geek point of view, this product has the potential to attract many developers specially if you think that it is very easy to port already existing GNOME applications to run within Maemo (check out the screenshots of a ported version of Gaim)
Now I only need to get my hands on one
pLog informal status update
23/05/2005 01:10 | Categories: LifeType | 1 Comments
Not much has happened in the pLog world recently, since I haven't had much time to work on it. I'm still confident we'll get rid of the 1.0.1 version sometime next week because I am already tired of it... only a few small issues here and there to fix.
But what I did have time to implement is the native support for RSS 2.0 enclosures. I had been meaning to do it for a while but it never seemed the right time so here it is I am sure that people who are into podcasting and vlogging will appreciate this feature. Only by upgrading to 1.0.1, will users get access automatically to this feature even though it won't work for old posts (it will only work with new posts whose links to resources were added via the "add resource" pop-up window) There is an example in our pLog development blog (look at the first "item" tag)
I've also started to use the new moblog plugin very heavily, as you might have noticed because of the amount of images in this page There seems to be however, something wrong with the thumbnail generation process. Images taken at a resolution of 640x480 pixels are too big for this layout, so I configured plog to generate medium-sized thumbnails of 500x375 pixels but it's actually ignoring those settings. I need to look into that but it won't probably be fixed before 1.0.2.
Speaking of 1.0.2 (and 1.1 too), things are going to heavily slow down in the plog camp in a few weeks time. We recently bought our new house and we're going to move in in the end of June. This means that we'll need all the time we can get to clean, paint and buy furniture that we can get so unless somebody steps forward and takes the leading role, we won't see a 1.1 release until probably late autumn or even early winter. 1.1 isn't going to represent a huge breakthrough as 1.0 did but it still has some nice improvements which will make hopefully make everybody happy (this includes Ben's work on implementing a disk-based cache system that speeds things up a *lot*)