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10 Postless Days
Nothing to see here. Move along.... (0 more words) -
AKA Balth Azar
My name on Facebook will soon be Balth Azar, if anything. Don’t be alarmed, Balth Azar was a good guy. Change Name Before confirming your... (127 more words, 1 link) -
Test
I just dropped my MacBook HARD on the carpet… My heart stopped for a few seconds. Nothing seems broken, it keeps running just fine and... (44 more words) -
Samsara
What did the Zen Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor? Make me one with everything. -- Anon. From here.... (0 more words, 1 link) -
Fix My Mail, Leopard!
The only thing I want from Leopard, is to fix Apple Mail. I use the thing 10 hours a day or so, and its quirks... (280 more words, 1 link) -
1h56'26''
Just finished a 2h long conf-call on my mobile phone without hands-free. It's good to know my 2 years old K750i can still handle more... (21 more words) -
No Luck Backing Up On Dreamhost
For the past few weeks, I tried to upload all my profile data to my Dreamhost ssh account. You know, actually using some of those... (146 more words, 2 links) -
Apples And Oranges
Just so you know: iPhone is scheduled to go on sale on November 29 and will be sold in France through Orange’s online and direct... (49 more words) -
Suckers Miss The Free Leopard Upgrade
I always felt bad about and laughed at the poor suckers who buy a new Mac just days before a newer version of the hardware... (61 more words, 1 link) -
Nokia N95 8GB vs. iPhone
I plaid a bit with an N95 and with an iPhone, and I was pretty ipmressed with each. My choice was the iPhone until the... (43 more words) -
Diggnation #118
Here’s the crazy Diggnation episode filmed at the end of the second day at FOWA. I was there, and it rocked. See it here. I... (82 more words, 1 link) -
ssh -ND 9999 user@host
I just discovered this really, really, REALLY hot trick: you can use any SSH-able machine as a SOCKS proxy, and it only takes seconds to... (27 more words, 1 link) -
Macs And The Future of Web Apps
Just so you know, the future of web apps is being built on Macs. Nine out ten people here are using laptops have Macs. The... (123 more words, 2 links, 1 image) -
FOWA London
I’ll be at the FOWA in London next week. Say hi if you’ll be there too.... (0 more words, 1 link, 1 image) -
Pixelator
Pixelator is now released, and I gave the demo a 5 minutes spin. Yes, it's pretty. It steals a few de facto standard features and... (92 more words, 1 link) -
Test Amazon Associates
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Pownce and Wixi
Got a few Pownce and Wixi invites to give a away. First comment, first served.... (0 more words) -
iPhone 8GB now at $399
I need to calm down. I don't need an iPhone. It's cool, I am fine. I like my G1 iPod, and it's a gift from... (151 more words, 1 link) -
Tiki Bar: The Play
It may not mean much to you if you don't watch their show, but this episode of Tiki Bar TV is so cool I want... (6 more words) -
Crash
My MacBook crashed again. It’s the 5th or 6th kernel panic in 6 months, and the first in the last three months since I’ve upgraded... (32 more words) -
Metroid Prime Hunters DS
Yeah, I've finished this one too. Greatest game on the DS, with Mario Kart DS. No cheating this time.... (0 more words, 2 links) -
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney DS
A few weeks back I’ve finished the first Phoenix Wright game on the DS. The sad thing is that I cheated in order to achieve... (101 more words) -
IPhone on Orange France
Financial times says here that… Apple has succeeded in committing European mobile phone operators that want exclusively to sell its new iPhone to share parts... (101 more words, 1 link) -
Dreamhost Is Down
When Dreamhost has network issues, half the internets go South with it. See this or that. Since it’s a DNS problem, even the mail servers... (66 more words, 5 links) -
Skype!?
Remember this: grownups use Skype and anything else is for kiddies. Just to annoy you, next time you contact me on any instant messenger, I’ll... (30 more words) -
Unlockable iPhone?
The iPhone SIM card actually is user accessible. I am pretty sure the thing will be unlocked and rendered compatible with any GSM network out... (42 more words, 1 link) -
New Vimeo UI
Vimeo, the best video hosting and sharing service, has a new UI. The site and the player have now a new look. I kinda... (12 more words, 1 image) -
Lonesome Lenny
You know, I had a little friend once, but he don't mooove no more.... (0 more words, 1 link) -
Poll - Why Are You Here?
UPDATE - The poll is now closed, the results are here, and I discover that Google Analytics is not a reliable measurement for one's popularity.... (56 more words, 2 links) -
New Timbru vs. Octimizer
I am so pissed of right now. PS (5 min later): I’ve been to the boys room and came back with a great design... (8 more words, 3 links, 1 image) -
10 more reasons why you should never switch to a MAC
The guy is good! BTW, if you are on a Mac, hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+8 to see the guy for real.... (0 more words) -
Jobs@Steek
Agematis embauche dans le R&D à Bordeaux: […] pour travailler en R&D sur les solutions steek, il est nécessaire de répondre à certains pré-requis d’ordre... (104 more words, 1 link) -
Eclipse Mac: Unable to open external editor
This is a workaround for Mac+Eclipse problem that others may encounter, and the internets didn’t reveal it when I searched for it. If a file... (89 more words, 1 link) -
Wanted: Talented and Reliable Graphic Designer
You will be assigned design projects covering product branding, desktop application icons and controls as well as web pages and web navigation. This is a... (27 more words) -
GabrielRadic.com
I’ve set up the domain GabrielRadic.com as a storefront for my professional presentation. The CV and the portfolio were last modified in 2004, and I... (51 more words, 2 links) -
Facebook
Everyone talks about Facebook and how great it is. I’ve been trying to get in since before it was opened to people outside the US... (86 more words, 1 link) -
Gabriel Likes To
OK, Gabriel doesn’t like to follow up on internet memes. But Gabriel likes to believe other’s tag him anyway because he is such a great... (16 more words, 3 links) -
Wii Got The Power
Oh Wii, it’s everything I hoped it’ll be.... (0 more words) -
Wii Are So Happy!
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Mourning Mario
Mario Kart DS is my favourite DS game. Since I got my DS a year ago, I played it almost every week, and sometimes... (141 more words, 1 image) -
iTunes Is Reading My Mind
I was listening Fara Tine 1, a really great rock-blues ballad by a famous and now blog-less craftsman friend, and I was thinking that there’s... (31 more words) -
PayPal In Romania, Send Only
PayPal expands to 190 countries. The new markets that can now use PayPal to send money online include: a bunch of African states, Bulgaria, some... (51 more words, 2 links) -
Joost Invitations
I’ve got three Joost invitations to give away, if anyone’s interested, drop me a mail. I had three Joost invitations, but now they’re all gone.... (2 more words) -
Eliberatica 18-19 mai 2007
From: subscribe (a) eliberatica.org Subject: eLiberatica News - Only a moth until the conference! Stirile eLiberatica | eLiberatica News ( See the bottom part... (407 more words) -
Isn't It Ironic
It’s like you just discovered how hot, Is to work on a big f**king screen, Only to find out, About that pixel in green. It’s... (3 more words) -
Back To Life, Back To Reality
Every day at my new job used to start with a little depression… It’s not the job itself. It’s the first time after a while... (187 more words, 1 link) -
Daydreaming
I just found myself daydreaming and configuring the most expensive machine on Apple’s web site. Some 14 years ago, in ‘92, I was doing this... (222 more words) -
ELii is now live!
OK, there was little going on my blog for the past few months, and now I can finally talk about it. Besides my new job,... (102 more words, 5 links) -
I'm Alright
Just didn’t have much time to post lately. I am in Bordeaux right now, enjoying the warm weather and the cool funky stuff I do... (33 more words) -
A Funny Crash
This was a serious crash on a one week old MacBook. I was setting up the trial version of Parallels Desktop to make it work... (330 more words) -
My New Mac (Problem)
I got a fancy new black MacBook at my new job. That was exactly one week ago. This morning I got an ugly crash and... (67 more words) -
AgileSols and GetAFreelancer
My user experience consulting company hired AgileSols, a development “team” from Pakistan to work on this project. This was part of a larger web development... (84 more words, 3 links) -
Photoset: Beijingle Bells
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Confidence
I am a Jack D ho fan.... (0 more words) -
Macworld
Sure, the iPhone is pretty and I would love to get one now. However, as much as I drool about its UI, compactness, design and... (214 more words, 1 link) -
SkypeOut purchase pending
Skype says: What is the PENDING order status? The PENDING status means that your order is currently being processed. If it becomes AUTHORISED, everything is... (83 more words, 1 link) -
Joyeux Christmas Tuturor!
…and a nouvel year fericit!... (0 more words) -
Switch to Windows?!
Been using Mac and Windows PC’s in parallel for the past 10 years or so. It’s been 5 or 6 years since my primary machine... (237 more words, 1 link, 1 image) -
Beijing - First Five Days
Check out this fresh Flickr set of Beijing photos.... (0 more words, 1 link) -
China
So I’m in Beijing since yesterday morning, and I’ll be around for another tree weeks. My employer sent me to take care of our product’s... (13 more words) -
North Korea
I’m sure this strikes a chord among many of us who got to enjoy TV as a 2h/day propaganda show: http://www.kcckp.net/en Official” North Korean... (56 more words, 4 links, 1 image) -
Procmail recipe
Know Procmail? Help me and get beer money! Status: Open Budget: $30-100 Created: 10/21/2006 at 14:10 EDT Bidding Ends: 11/04/2006 at 14:10 EST (14 days... (80 more words, 1 link) -
Mail Issues
For a short while, I had issues with my gmail account. If you sent me stuff over the past couple of days, please send it... (124 more words) -
Thracians
I just stumbled upon this stuff: The Thracians were extremely patralineal. Apart from practicing polygamy, men considered women placed on earth to pleasure men. Thracians... (120 more words, 2 links) -
NetVibes works offline
Whoa, NetVibes does work off-line! If you load the home page and then disconnect, you can still access all the tabs and news items. Seems... (35 more words, 1 link) -
Muted Nintendo DS
My Nintendo DS suddenly lost its voice. I was trying to kill a boss in MPH, for the hundredth time, when the sound just disappeared.... (52 more words, 1 link) -
Addressed !important issues
What an amazing line-up of glorious bits of joy! All the important bugs in IE’s parser are finally fixed. At least AFAIK, in the midst... (72 more words) -
Again About Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 4000
Yeah, that thing about that MS mouse… So I went to Darty for a fix, and they were nice enough to replace the mouse with... (190 more words, 1 link) -
Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 4000
Microsoft is a rotten company and all they products suck, except maybe for their Mac OS and hardware products. That’s what I used to believe,... (149 more words, 2 links) -
Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1
Of all the nice things you can say about the upcoming Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1, the one thing that tilted my sleepy brain was this: Flash:... (88 more words, 1 link) -
Activity indicator for Tiger Mail
Dear LazyWeb, is there any way to have an activity indicator (aka status bar) in Apple Mail? The pre-Tiger Mail application had a real, full-size... (46 more words, 1 link, 1 image) -
PHP Vikinger 2006
De la Lucian Savluc citire, că m-a rugat: Zak Greant announced that eZsystems is going to sponsor a PHP conference on June in Skien, Norway.... (71 more words, 10 links) -
Boonty Games Affiliation
Right, so from now on I’ll be a proud affiliate of Boonty Games US. The program offers 15% commission for each game sold, and most... (115 more words, 2 links) -
praduitorul@gmail.com
[Am trimis deja vestea la BoingBoing şi nu prea mai am chef să traduc, dar merită menţionată şi pe aici. So, pardon my French.] There’s... (77 more words, 4 links) -
Ajay Kumar Is An Ass
Ajay Kumar steals e-mail addresses from web sites and spams them with his resume. You don’t want to work with this guy. Here are his... (35 more words, 1 link) -
iCal can't accept invites sent to any address
Our company has e-mail aliases for various internal groups. People have the habit of inviting participants to meetings using these mailing lists, instead of the... (62 more words, 1 image) -
Change This ChangeThis PDF
Seth Godin insists on keeping the ChangeThis manifestos in PDF. He says: […] we use PDFs because they’re a lot more booklike. They read better.... (141 more words, 2 links, 1 image) -
iPhoto Bug: Exposure increase removes dark levels
Increasing the exposure level, even with one point, instantly wipes out the dark levels in the image. Steps to reproduce: Edit a photo in iPhoto.... (114 more words, 1 link, 1 image) -
links for 2005-08-11
Carlton Draught - ‘Big Ad’ - plaza flims (tags: ad funny)... (0 more words, 3 links) -
links for 2005-08-09
Flowcharting (tags: hci functional)... (0 more words, 3 links) -
links for 2005-08-06
PostSecret The saddest page in the world. And really motivational. PS: Why the hell didn’t he put it on Flickr? (tags: motivational)... (0 more words, 2 links) -
links for 2005-08-03
Joel on Software - Hitting the High Notes (tags: motivational software)... (0 more words, 3 links) -
links for 2005-08-01
How to smoke a pipe - Everything2.com (tags: pipe tutorial)... (0 more words, 3 links) -
links for 2005-07-31
MacDevCenter.com: What Is FireWire (and How Best to Use It) (tags: mac firewire network)... (0 more words, 4 links) -
10 Commandments Defense Spam
A couple of days ago I received this snail mail spam from the Alliance Defense Fund, asking me to help stop the ACLU lawsuit... (230 more words, 1 link, 1 image) -
Ajax Is Marketing
Adaptive Path — a respectable company, mind you — is wrapping up a series of existing concepts and technologies under a catchy name, in order... (142 more words, 6 links) -
Dooce is Diaz
After watching this video clip of Dooce on ABC World News, I just realized she is really Cameron Diaz. Is this common knowledge? I can’t... (12 more words, 3 links) -
iPod too popular at Microsoft
Wired: “About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod,” said one source, a high-level manager who asked to... (72 more words, 2 links) -
Scoble predicts 2005
I learn that Scoble predicts that in 2005 three things will join: cell phones. Hard drives. Skype. IMHO, the join of the first two is... (30 more words, 2 links) -
Apeiron X
At last, Ambrosia made it. For some people, not having a Mac OS X version of Apeiron, the best game ever, was the last serious... (41 more words, 2 links) -
LinkedIn, Big Time
My network is bigger than I would’ve thought! I joined LinkedIn a few weeks ago, but only started networking today. So… I join, look for... (35 more words, 1 link) -
Secret Santa 2004
It’s here! Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! The idea of Secret Santa is very simple - you pull a name out of... (47 more words, 3 links) -
ChangeThis
We’re on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds. Oh so true! ChangeThis.... (0 more words, 1 link) -
US does not pay back favours, says Chirac
Chirac: [The Franco-British relationship is] built on competition, which implies mutual esteem ... It's a kind of violent love affair. That just made me laugh... (16 more words, 1 link) -
RIP, ODB
Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard, a founding member of Wu Tang clan, has died. Mtv News: Jarred Weisfeld, ODB’s manager, said that the rapper was entirely... (43 more words, 2 links) -
Vivato? Yes Please!
Update 1st of Oct. 2004 What goes up, must come down, and so did my obscure Vivato hotspot. Access was lousy slow today and... (148 more words, 2 links, 1 image) -
Drupal 4.5.0 released
Drupal 4.5.0 is now officially available. New features: Tab based user interface, Configurable menus, Multiple roles per user, Document/image uploads, Node-level permissions, Improved locale support,... (32 more words, 2 links) -
IT to Entertainment: We Lied
Amazing open letter to the entertainment industry, signed by the computer industry. The Butt Ugly Weblog: We told you these things so that you would... (80 more words, 2 links) -
Longhorn
Forward this to friends and enemies. Do not link directly to the image file.... (0 more words, 1 image) -
No SVG in Safari Anytime Soon
I guess it would’ve been too good to have native SVG support in Safari/WebKit. Instead, Apple will support the proprietary canvas element and the composite... (55 more words, 2 links) -
Why Microsoft Wants the Web in the Dark Age
At last, a reasonable explanation for the apparently dumb — and damn right offensive — decision to put Internet Explorer on the back-burner. Here’s the... (85 more words, 1 link) -
Clean up your life
Clean Sweep Program: The Clean Sweep Program is a checklist of 100 items which, when completed, give one complete personal freedom. These 100 items are... (39 more words, 2 links) -
Ecto suck on Windows too
I just learned that ecto is now available on Windows too, and all the BoingBoing authors use it. I was expecting better from them. Am... (50 more words, 2 links) -
Tog changes opinion about Dock
I have now changed my opinion about the Dock. Apocalypse is near! Ask Tog.... (0 more words, 1 link) -
Usability voyages-sncf.com
Here’s a feedback message I sent after a painful experience buying train tickets on voyages-sncf.com. The site voyages-sncf.com is making you lose money. To order... (123 more words, 1 link) -
DOM bookmarklet
This will come in handy when trying to figure out how pages are constructed in CSS: a mouseover DOM bookmarklet Via scriptygoddess.... (0 more words, 2 links) -
Shrook 2
A new version of Shrook just came out, and I can't say I like it that much. It does feature some great ideas, but it... (61 more words, 2 links) -
S Koreans in 'net suicide pact'
BBC News: Five South Koreans found dead in a hotel room are thought to have made an internet suicide pact, say police.. Link. How about... (5 more words, 1 link) -
Ecto sucks
I spent the morning carefully editing a post using ecto. After two hours of work, I was finally happy with my changes and decided to... (233 more words, 1 link) -
First 48h with Mac OS X
Matthew Thomas is a recent switcher to Mac OS X from Mac OS 9. His findings during the first 48h of use are make an... (12 more words, 2 links) -
More on Safari, CAPTION and margin-top
I just discovered that the spacing inserted between caption and table problem also occurs when the margin-top property is attached to the table element. Dave,... (4 more words, 1 link) -
Safari Obtrusive Error Reporting
Dave H. on his weblog: Once the parser is finished, I then display the Web page, but with a badge of shame, namely an error... (204 more words, 5 links) -
How about my bugs?
Dave Hyatt sheds some light on the excellent progress of Safari, and even mentions specific bugs reported on other sites. This is great news, maybe... (53 more words, 4 links) -
Safari suport for
labelIf only Safari would support the label element... I hear Safari post 1.1 will have (1) Support for the title attribute using tooltips and a... (20 more words, 2 links) -
Check-boxes and negative text-indent in Safari
Update, 27th of April 2005: This is fixed in the new Safari 1.3 for Mac OS 10.3.9, which is supposed to be using the same... (305 more words, 8 links) -
Proteron is Right(?)
Daring Fireball: Command-Tab Proteron is a small Mac developer; one of their products is LiteSwitch X, a $15 utility that implements Command-Tab keyboard switching. In... (129 more words, 1 link) -
Safari rendering CAPTION and CSS
Safari is a decent browser, with a great rendering engine. It still has quirks, like the one about rendering PRE tags, and the one I'll... (123 more words, 6 links, 2 images) -
Overwrite files in Mac OS X Save dialogue window
Try this on Mac OS any version: 1. Start TextEdit or any other application that edits documents of some type 2. Create a new document,... (165 more words, 1 link) -
Escape NetNewsWire - Try Shrook!
Style Sheets Are the Faces of the Web: NetNewsWire (RSS reader nonpareil) has become an essential application. It's one of those load-at-startup apps that just... (58 more words, 2 links) -
Dreamweaver MX 2004 is slow on Mac OS X
JD on MX: I’ve seen some people say their Macs run Dreamweaver MX 2004 “slow”. I wouldn’t expect Macromedia, or any other company, to come... (146 more words, 2 links) -
Iluzii optice
Akiyoshi's illusion pages" Caution: This page contains some works of "anomalous motion illusion", which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy,... (11 more words, 1 link) -
[Pricing Solution Company's] web site - continued
Yesterday I was talking about the update of openpricer.com. I did a few tweaks and bam! It validates as HTML 4.01 Transitional. Zeldman would be... (6 more words, 3 links) -
[Pricing Solution Company's] web site
Yesterday I finished re-designing the structure of the pages at the pricing solutions company that I work for. There are no obvious design chages, but... (42 more words, 1 link) -
Camino advancing(?)
Pinkerton on his weblog whines, with dignity, about the lack of communication and development on the Camino project. I would like to get involved. I... (28 more words, 1 link) -
Web search for synonyms
Aaron Swartz noticed on his weblog that Google lets you now search for synonyms of a keyword. This is accomplished by placing a ~ character... (66 more words, 3 links) -
SVG - because it's Scalable Vector Graphics!
[I'm republishing this entry as the original - May 21, 2003 - was lost when I moved my blog to Movable Type.] The lead developer... (87 more words, 3 links)
