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I went to Arcadia a few weeks ago and this small developement company had a DS dev kit running their game demo, so I snapped a picture of it, telling myself I would post it on my blog when I got home, and then promptly forgot about it. I found the picture on my phone just now and decided to try the wordpress iPhone client. So here goes a lot of fuss over nothing.

I got this bitching new watch a few days ago.

The pictures above don’t do justice to its beauty. It’s just gorgeous.
What I like, save the awesome steampunk or neo-victorian look, is that the watch is entirely mechanical, which only adds to its charm. And now, I can be hit with an EMP blast, and still tell the time! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll just go back to pretending I’m a neo-victorian, and that this watch just came out of the matter compiler.

So, I came home late today, much like the rest of the week. Working on a rather intensive new website deployment, with tons of deadlines. I’m getting better with Glassfish/Sun Application Server, though.

So, you know, there are times where you’re just tired as fuck, worn out, and you don’t feel like cooking. At all. When these times come around, you eat junk. Or at least, toast.

Well, this is my junk food:

Crisp iceberg lettuce with shredded shrimp and mayonnaise, avocado, palmtree hearts with a dash of balsamic vinegar, vegetable crispers with strong crackerbarrel cheese and pepper paté.

The sad thing is, I had plenty of junk available in the pantry, I just decided that this would be a quickly-done-meal.

I must be getting older.

I really am. I got an iPhone 3G.

Mitigating factors are that the camera is really awesome, and also that I got root on it, voiding my warranty a mere fifteen minutes after unboxing it.

I just installed Leopard on my Mac Book Pro, waiting to see how all the shit I have installed in /opt and /usr/local would survive before taking the actual leap with my Dual G5, which I still use for a bunch of development stuff that I don’t want to break. Yet.

So far so good. The under-the-hood features are actually great, and I pretty much enjoy the tabs in terminal. About damn time. I have yet to see if special keys work by default without me hacking it up. Oh and dtrace has a really fruity front-end in the developper tools. Fairly awesome if you ask me.

Anyways, the point is, I was finding Coverflow amusing for 3 whole seconds before switching back to the usual view, and decided to browse the network. By the way, this now actually works now. So, if you pay attention to the actual icon used for Windows machines on the network…

Now that’s fairly ballsy. Not too professional, but I chuckled nonetheless.

I now have a /29 subnet at home. This is probably the pinnacle of network geekdom.

I SO feel like running a honeypot…

I just woke up, glanced tenderly at my Mac Book Pro next to my bed, and plugged the cord in. I pushed the button on the battery that is supposed to tell me in what condition the charge is. Nothing occured.

I power up the laptop, and see this.

For those not speaking french, it means “No battery available”.

Fuck. And I’m about to go on a trip to toronto. The battery of my older Powerbook died the same way in the very same outlet. What the fuck is wrong with this power outlet, I ask you? Damn.

The guy in the office next to mine is listening to Andrea Bocceli, full blast. I gave him headphones with an obviously forced smile, but he didn’t seem to catch the subtle drift.

Opera in the morning is too much, especially when you have an ear infection, and are trying to do some work.

It now stopped but then he proceeds to watch shitty videos, again, with the sound at full blast, like he has been doing for the past two months. When he’s gone, I’ll disconnect the internal speaker of his desktop machine. Watch me.

If you have an Intel Mac, you already know what Parallels is and what wonders it can accomplish. Virtualization is awesome, especially with Intel VT, of course.

One new feature of the latest version that came out last week would be Coherence Mode. It is similar to running X11 applications “rootless”. I’m not sure of how to describe it. To cite David Young from StuffOnFire, who describes it in much better words than I would:

Have I ever mentioned how freaking awesome Parallels Coherence mode is? Probably not, because it’s only been out for a week. Well, it’s freaking awesome. What do you run Windows for? Visual Studio? Office? You put the taskbar on auto-hide and it’s just like using a really ass-tastic Mac application, like something made by Adobe. And it runs on your Boot Camp partition! Hell yeah. If there were a Mac Software Engineering Team of the Year award, I’d suggest that the Parallels guys get it.

I just wanted to mention how awesome it was really. No acerbic rant about stuff, or witty comments, really. Just a plain “Oh shit it’s awesome, I want people to know this and belch, fart and shit their pants at the same time when they see this”.

I’ll post a screenshot later on.

Just when I was starting to actually enjoy (read: thinking “hey, it’s not so bad!”) Windows scripting after discovering documentation for the 32 bits command interpreter in Windows NT, I realize I have been spoiled by Unix shells and expect some things to work, and then frown in disgust when they don’t.

for /F "usebackq tokens=2,*" %i in (`net use | find "..."`)... 
| was unexpected

I really wanted to like writing cmd scripts. But the parser is way too obnoxious when parsing brackets. For instance, you can’t set an environement variable in one branch of a conditional statement.

if "text" EQU "othertext" ( 
    set VAR=value 
) else ( 
    echo Not Working. 
)

This will fail silently or with unexpected results. Can’t wait until PowerShell becomes mainstream enough for me to use.

I just came accross this [rocktheskillcrane].

It’s awesome, and you must check it out. It’s basically allowing you to play a Skill Crane in some arcade remotely, and then it e-mails you a video of how you did.

Such geekery is not to be taken lightly.

I am honestly considering becoming a member of the FSF.

120$ USD a year is a little heavy on the wallet, but it would feel right. That would be giving back a little of all the great things I got. I feel like I owe so much to Free Software, most of my passion for Unix was spawned from it…

I still need to think about that… but I think I will. I can probably afford it, even with my student loan which I’m trying to pay back.

One thing is sure, were I to win an obscene amount of money, such as, say, 15 millions, i’d immediately distribute five among my favorite Open Source projects and the FSF.

I mean, what the fuck would I need so much money for? I have no interest in living large. All I ask for is a home, room for my computers, electricty and bandwidth, and a way to pay for all of this. Maybe I’d just build a small datacenter with a phat pipe and lend out rackspace, bandwidth and servers to Free Software projects. I don’t know, anything.

One thing I know for sure is that I’d keep working. I love my job too much.

Well that wasn’t really interesting, was it? I’m tired. I’m off to bed.

Dir en grey is my favorite band - ever. It’s Japanese, and yes. Lyrics are in Japanese. It’s getting easier and easier to obtain their stuff overseas now, since they are slowly becoming more mainstream outside Japan.

Anyways, they have a new single coming out today. It’s called “Ryojoku no ame“, which would probably translate to something like “Rain of rape”, or “Rain of discomfort”. Use whichever you please depending on the kind of audience. I use the latter when talking to my mother, for instance.

Since I am all hyped up inside right now, I would like to share the (presumed) music video for it, so you can give a listen and wonder what the fuck I am on about. Read on for the video. Read the rest of this entry »

I was browsing microsoft.com lately, and saw this.

The stock photo used in there appears to be an Apple iBook.

Mild amusement on my part.

Update: Here is the link to a screenshot of the full page.

Well, i’m doing some basic C# junk for a Subversion Hook at my workplace lately.

You know, Visual Studio (Express, in my case) has a nice feature, you enter three slashes, and it springs up some kind kind of “meta comment” in the code, which you can use to describe your method or constructor, and what arguments it requires. What is awesome is that IntelliSense (the thing that autocompletes and show you choices and snipplets as you type away) picks it up and offers you context sensitive help based on what you wrote.

Now, I didn’t have much sleep last night, and I stand here, utterly tired. So I was using a function I wrote earlier, WriteLineLog(), that writes to both Console and a Log file, depending on a setting in the configuration file.

And this gem sprung up in IntelliSense.

What is sad is that I don’t remeber writing the part referring to Phalluses engaging into a ritual tribal rythm fest.

So, I’m taking notes. Attempting to write proper code when tired = bad.

Redhat can be an anagram for hatred.

Or “H Rated”.

No really.

Also, Incense Set can be turned into Incest Sense.

What, me, bored? Never.

Pour les francophones, avec “Las Vegas” on peut presque écrire “Gars Lavé”. Presque.

I love my isp

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