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New look!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Ok, I think there are three reasons for me half abandoning this blog:

  1. lazyness
  2. micro blogging
  3. ugliness of the style of the blog

Today, I have resolved point 3 (or at least made a big leap in that direction).
That old CSS, first with the Union Jack, then with a mix of it with la Senyera and the awful pink background amused me at the beginning, but I think I got tired of it. So, here’s the new style, aimed at simplicity and readability, hope you like it! Of course, (constructive) comments are welcome!

For the nostalgic/masochist among you who know how to use their web browser, the old stylesheet is still available under the name “old ugly style”.

Emont.org breakage — emont.org tout cassé

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

So, my apologies to those who tried to write me to an email address @emont.org recently. It was unavailable since the 12th of September. I had forgotten to renew the domain, and I didn’t get the reminders from gandi.net since my fetchmail wasn’t running any more (and the non-emont.org address I use for gandi is used almost exclusively for that). Everything should be back to normal now, or quite soon, when your name server cache is updated.

Toutes mes excuses à ceux qui ont pu essayer de m’écrire à une adresse email @emont.org ces derniers jours. Le domaine n’était plus disponible depuis le 12 septembre. J’avais oublié de renouveler le domaine, et je n’ai pas reçu les emails de gandi.net parce que mon fetchmail (qui ne sert pratiquement que pour gandi) ne tournait plus depuis des mois, sans que je ne m’en sois aperçu… Tout devrait être désormais revenu à la normale, ou dans pas longtemps, quand le cache de votre serveur de nom (enfin, celui de votre fournisseur d’accès) sera mis à jour.

Moovida!

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Long time no blog!

moovida!

So, lately, the big news is, at work, we’ve just released Moovida 1.0. Moovida is what used to be called Elisa, with more cool in it :). We’ve totally reworked the interface, and I must say it now rocks! Kuddos to everyone involved, we’re starting to have something quite cool. Just check it out, tell me what you think and report bugs if you find any.

Also, for those who don’t know, I’m now on identi.ca and twitter, and I’ve been updating quite a bit today about how the release was advancing, with some pictures posted here.

Chères cousines

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

J’ai deux cousines que j’aime beaucoup[1], qui ont eu l’idée saugrenue, mais pleine de bonne volonté, de me faire suivre l’e-mail decrit ici. Je leur ai rapidement expliqué (peut-être de façon expéditive, j’ai beaucoup de courrier à traiter chaque jour, du fait de mes nombreux fans) que non, ça ne sauvera pas la planète, en leur envoyant le lien ci-dessus (il ne fait pas que décrire l’e-mail, il explicite aussi pourquoi il ne vaut pas grand chose).

Voulant en savoir plus, l’une d’elle m’a demandé:

Alors peux tu expliquer à l’inculte en info que je suis ce qu’est un hoax ? Ça doit être un virus quelconque non ?

Je me suis alors senti obligé d’écrire un roman, grand défenseur que je suis de la veuve, l’orphelin, la cousine perdue dans son outlook et ma boite e-mail qui n’arrête pas d’exploser, j’ai commencé à écrire, et j’en ai fait un roman, que je vous copie ici.

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Vista…

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Here and now at work, I have to do stuff under windows (obviously, we want elisa to work under windows). On the machine I have at work, that means Vista Home in Spanish (that’s what was installed). To do that stuff, I need some tools, like the excellent bzr, written in python (this detail has its importance).

A while ago, for some reason, I wanted to use bzr-svn on that setup, so I installed it in C:\Program Files\bazaar\plugins. I don’t remember if I managed to make it work or not (did I say it was a while ago?), but I eventually uninstalled it, as well as any dependency that I might have installed for the occasion. Ever since that day, whenever I ran a bzr command, I had the following output preceding the expected output of said command:

No Python bindings for Subversion installed. See the bzr-svn README for details.
Unable to load plugin u'bzr_svn' from u'C:/Program Files/Bazaar/plugins'

Even though I don’t have any bzr_svn plugin in that directory! Yes, I tripled checked!

This had been driving me crazy for months now, and today, by pure chance, I stepped across a directory called C:\Users\guijemont\AppData\Local\VirtualStore that contained a Program Files directory. Having a look at it, I discovered, after months of struggling with that awful and undeserved error message that there was a:

C:\Users\guijemont\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\bazaar\plugins\bzr_svn

Yeah, really. And it was full of .pyc files. What happened is that, whenever a user program tries to write somewhere where it shouldn’t (such as Program Files), UAC gives it the impression that it succeeded, and write the stuff in that VirtualStore instead of the real place. That is a convenience that might save the day to some programs that don’t behave and write in places where they shouldn’t.

Enters python. Python writes .pyc files, which are slightly compressed versions of the original .py files (and therefore faster to load). It writes them in the directory where the .py file resides (I guess it makes a lot of things easier to manage).

Then you mix both. Install bzr-svn, use it as a normal user, remove it: it’s not removed! Because the .pyc files are still there, hidden in VirtualStore.

And they say that OS is user-friendly? As I user, I find it friendly that a directory is deleted when I delete it…

New Microsoft product?

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Having heard of Dell’s new netbook, the mini 9, I wanted to know more about it; here’s what I found on Dell’s French site:


screenshot of dell's website

À toi qui vieillis

Monday, August 11th, 2008

C’est pas grave de vieillir, ça a ses avantages. Ça permet d’être un gamin un peu plus vieux, qui peut jouer à des jeux auxquels il pouvait pas jouer avant.

La preuve en image…

Guij très barbu et Guij moins barbu

J’ai hâte de pouvoir faire des jeux marrants avec mes rides :)

Ils sont mariés!

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Le week-end dernier, je suis aller faire un tour en Alsace pour le mariage de deux bons potes: Claire et Mathieu. Et bien voilà, que ça soit crié partout, ils sont mariés, on a bien fêté, et j’ai des preuves:

Plus de preuves ici, vu que beaucoup de gens m’ont mis la pression pour que je les mette en ligne :).

Opening windows

Friday, May 9th, 2008

To my friends who, for whatever reason, run that popular proprietary operating system from Redmond:

You can now try everyone’s favourite media centre on your machine, and have a glimpse of the cool stuff we do at my company. If you wonder what I do there: I work on the part that makes the display look buggy.

Quite obviously, since it is an alpha version, do expect bugs, and not a final product. If you find any, please be so kind as to report them.

Rock ‘n Roll!

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I’m going to the Electric Festival with Olivier. Gonna kick arses, check out the line-up! For people who aren’t friends with flash, that includes:

  • Rage Against The Machine
  • Metallica
  • Iggy & the Stooges
  • Machine Head
  • Cavalera Conspiracy
  • Serj Tankian
  • Eths
  • Queends of the Stone Age
  • ETHS

Which are all bands I’m really excited to see live. I either don’t know or don’t care about the others (well, I will be quite happy to see Offspring perform good old stuff like “Come out and play”), but there probably will be stuff I don’t know that I will like. I’m kinda taking my revenge for these two years spent in England without going to the download festival, finally :)

That might also be an occasion to visit a bit Madrid, but I don’t know if I will have much time for that :/.