pterjan's diary
2008-08-01
Great day for gtk users
Bug #56070 Can't click button after setting it sensitive, open 7 years ago and bothering a lot of people in various apps, was fixed today!
The hero of the day is Cody Russell!
2008-08-03
IKEA
In my Living room I currently have 3 BESTÅ bookcases, and wanted to buy an additional one as they are now full.
I was very disappointed to see that IKEA France now only has the 40cm deep ones while mine are 20cm (perfect for pocket books, DVD and CD).
I could find it on their Australian website for 99 AUD which according to google is the same price I paid for mine 3 years ago, but Australia is a bit far from France, and Belgium or Switzerland don't have it. Japan and China also have it...
Should I move to Australia, China or Japan or buy a different one that would not fit ?
English signs in China
Related to the very funny Translate server error sign, Funda posted another link pointing some very bad translations.
The expensive sun multiples by a duty a police to buy a brigade could be a small poem but it actually tells where is the police office of Guiyang station.
This other website gives a more detailed explanation for this one:
It's basically a character-by-character translation of 贵阳乘警支队: The expensive (贵) sun (阳) multiplies (乘) by a duty (??) a police (警) to pay (支) a brigade (队). What it should be: Guiyang (贵阳) Rail Police (乘警) Detachment (支队).
Even google would do better: Guiyang marshals detachment.
But at least there are the words "police" and "brigade" so someone looking for the police would find it :)
2008-08-21
Britney Spears spam
I got hundreds of spam with subject starting with "Britney Spears" during the last few days, some are quite funny.
- Britney Spears' vagina attacks warder and escapes rehab
- Britney Spears Shoots Down American Spy Satellite With Her Vagina
- Britney Spears Stashed Guns in her Vagina - Papparazzi Duck for Cover
- Britney Spears Leaves Earth, Humanity Breathes Sigh of Relief
- Britney Spears to Study Theoretical Quantum Mechanics at MIT
Update: a few more ones from today
- Britney Spears Is Actually A Piece Of Broccoli
- Britney Spears Recording New Album - Forgotten How To Sing
- Britney Spears To Donate Eggs For Darfur
2008-08-26
London
Last week-end was another one without coding, in London, and it was great!
On arrival on Friday evening I felt the pain of paying 4£ (5) for on single metro trip. And if you see people who don't pay, they have a wonderful system for you to report them via sms.
On Saturday I have visited the exhibition Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography which I strongly suggest you to visit (but hurry up, it's closing on next Sunday!).
Then we walked along the river and ended the day in a cool pub.
On Sunday we went to Notting Hill carnival which was great but I had to leave before 7pm to catch my train so I missed the end of Sunday and all Monday :(
As usual, I took too many photos, in case you are bored at work.
Benj [Wtf, this bug happened to me and I spent like three hours auditing my code thinking it was my fault!]
yoho [It was especially annoying when using an internet browser ! I didn't know it was a GTK bug and I've never tried to fin..]