Archive for November, 2004

Sometimes I feel that I live in a strange kind of world. Today I had two such moments.

When I arrived to Szeged to the flat I ate some food and went down to the school. As I stepped out of the building I noticed our neighbour. She is a middle-aged woman. She seems quite sick to me because of her looks. Her voice also sounds pathetic and the way she breaths. It's maybe asthma, I'm not sure. In the moment she went out, she took a cigarette and began smoking. I noticed her red painted nails too. I was thinking about this scene for a while. She's sick, that's apparent to me, yet she doesn't care with her health, she damages herself with this toxin. She even has time to paint his fingers which doesn't make her look any nicer, maybe only in her reality. She can also think that this is the expectation of our culture. Hell knows.

The other time was when I was sitting in the English class an hour ago. There was this girl. She always makes me laugh with her very colorful, crazy clothes. It's hard to me to describe the way she looks but imagine a childish girl in all kinds of very vivid wearings. Orange, Green, Pink, whatever. I almost cracked up in smiling when I saw her star-shaped earrings. Their diameter could be around 5 centimeters and 1 cm thick. They were semi-trasparent. She could even built in them some kind of light source or some radioactive fluid which would make them even more funky.

Wordpress

Wordpress almost made me mad this time also. I couldn't login because I didn't change that unmemorizable password that I've given during the registration process I suppose, so I almost reinstalled the whole thing. Fortunately I successfully found the cure for my problem just in time.

I couldn't blog in the past few weeks since the sysadmins of this public server were busy with architectural changes which resulted in URL semantic changes and other undesirable kind of changes as well. I couldn't login into Workpress anymore. I didn't investigate the reason behind it cause I hadn't that much time. I've just finished reinstalling and partly reconfiguring Wordpress and importing all the blog entries I've made. It's not funny at all, believe me. Next time I'll probably kill them.

Interestingly one can still see the effect of the above mentioned URL changes. The blog URL is pretty messed up. The server replaced the ~laci part with %7Elaci. It's ugly like hell.

I've just visited Alex King's site because of this pretty, clean Simple Blue Workpress theme I'm currently using. This site is a very nice piece of work.

I've browsed through every interesting Stubleupon groups that exists which is a looong job. There are probably several hundreads of them. Yeah, I'm surely a maniac. So let's see the interesting stuff I found here:

• EBay is a complete freakshow.
• The Best Page in the Universe is truly an original site which I found from The Real Men Club. It's a power house of arrogant humor.
• Swearing is popular. This group has some nifty threads. The Urban Dictionary is also a useful resource. Likewise the The Alternative Dictionaries where I found some expressions in my native language I didn't know about. Am I maybe some kind of a dork?
• Some really nice fractals.

And now comes the part I almost couldn't believe: the Personality Group page.

I've done a Jung Typology Test which is a personality test. It basically puts you into one category out of sixteen. At first it sounds kinda lame like some horoscope stuff you may think. I turned out to be an INTJ which stands for Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging. More specifically by the test I am 22% introverted, 33% intuitive, 44% thinking and 33% judging. You can find the INTJ personality analysis writings here, here and here. It's so damn exciting because it's all me. These descriptions are so deep, insightful and true. This way I can understand myself better. Interesting stuff.

But it's already 04:16 and I should really get some sleep so good night everyone.

There are several types of people in the Free Software Community. One significiant type is the minimalistic geek. The minimalistic geek is... minimalistic. You can easily recoginize him. He lives in a strange kind of world. His universe complies to certain minor rules that he deems to important. Several examples:

"My home page needs to be written in a way that anyone could see it using lynx." Actually one can browse his homepage in lynx, but the HTML is so messed up that with IE, it is not browsable. He doesn't care. Everyone should use a non-IE browser. Well, I neither love MS or its products but 90% of the world still use it. And his homepage is exposed to them (it is not a technical site).

Or here is another one: "C# and Java is evil. I'd use C for everything. It's fast unlike those languages." I argued that C# is garbage collected and he can serialize an obect instantly without writing any code. I want to be more productive so I won't use such lower level tools. He told me that it's not such a big business writing some serialization code for every class, it really isn't. I asked him why should I waste my time writing any bits of code if it's not essentially required. But C# and Java are extremely slow and resource hungry he answered. Well, computers getting faster and VMs getting more optimized every day so why should I suffer using ancient tools? Maybe because my software should run on his Pentium 200.

Summarizing in a few words, these folks live in the past when computing resources were very scarce. They are intimitated by new tools/languages/whatever, especially if those are resource hungry. Most of these people will never make any big things happen because they are so attached to their limiting attitude.

Plone

Plone. This thing is *too* easy to use. Seriously, I installed it in some minutes and I haven't slept enough yesterday so it's hard to me to concentrate. I've already installed Zope some months ago, but that was pretty easy too. When it comes to archiving a Plone site, you can export your folder into a .zexp file and that's it. Damn, I almost couldn't believe how simple it is.

Cool Mono Applications

Two artices about cool Mono applications:

• Seven Cool Mono Apps
• Twenty Third Party Gnome Apps you Can't Live Without

Real Life

Eszter (my sister) and me were running to Szelid be honest we were walking most of the time, but who cares? We had a good time. By the way did you know that running decreases the probability of depression three times. I read that some time ago.