Entries from December 2005

December 31, 2005

Christmas Dip

You might have noticed I’ve been a bit low on accomplishmets this last couple of weeks. Let’s call it the Christmas Dip, OK? You can expect more serious updates starting tomorrow, but for the meantime, please note that today I:

switched my blog to WordPress 2.0 (still need to fix some plugins, but the migration is [...]

December 24, 2005

‘More of This Artist!” in iTunes

Here’s one feature I’d really like to see in iTunes: Party Shuffle, with the added option of saying “More of this artist” or “More of this playlist”.
For example, the other day, a Cat Stevens song came up in my playlist. I hadn’t heard one from him in ages! Now I feel like a few hearty [...]

December 24, 2005

Spring Cleaning

Sorry, Christmas cleaning. One of my projects for these holidays is cleaning up Climb to the Stars a bit (and upgrading to WP 2.0, which will be out in a couple of days).
Today I imported all my old writings into WordPress. I need to read some of that stuff again… I skimmed a few pages [...]

December 23, 2005

Executive Summary

Stupid idea of the day:

go to town with my car during late night shopping evening. (Imagine the worst day-time traffic in the year. Now double it. And try to find a parking spot.)

Annoying person of the day:

the guy who was smoking in the lift while we went from level -1 to +5 in the parking. [...]

December 22, 2005

Another Night Out

The master word these last few weeks has been tired. Five letters for a constant state which doesn’t seem to go away, partly because I keep having “things to attend to” until late at night (not all are unpleasant, by far, but still, they keep me up late), and partly because the end-of-(school)year stress and [...]

December 17, 2005

Flickr Wishlist: View Photograph in Photostream

A feature that is cruelly missing in Flickr is something like “View this Photo in Photostream”. Take the photo below, which is not that ancient (I could have chosen a worse example, as there are 4′500+ photographs in my photostream — I’m not very selective).

Well, you can of course click on the tags of this [...]

December 17, 2005

Accomplishment of the day

I slept until 11:30
This early morning post brought to you by Stephanie’s Outstanding Accomplishments Squad.
technorati tags: sleep, accomplishment, my life

December 16, 2005

Life News

We know Christmas is stressful for everybody, but I think it’s fair to say it’s doubly stressful for teachers. Not only is it a “just a couple of weeks and we’re finally on holiday” phase (which is always bad), but on top of that it’s half-term (ugh) and Christmas (which can be nice if you [...]

December 16, 2005

Latest Flickr Photos on my WordPress.com Blog?

Looking around in the admin interface, it seems there is no way I can include thumbnails of my latest Flickr photos in the sidebar of my WP.com blog. Templates aren’t editable! How annoying. (Yes, I know there are many other things which are higher priority than language management, localization, and Flickr photos — it’s still [...]

December 14, 2005

Happy 200′000!

My trusty car:

technorati tags: car, voiture, audi, 200000