“One small step for a blogger, one giant step for the blogosphere.”

Hello, readers.
I am Michel Valdrighi, both an ex-blogger and new blogger, and the only Corsican blogger (that I know of).
The website’s not done yet, obviously. There were supposed to be marvellous CSS, a photolog, a whole set of witty blog posts to get you in the mood, and then some. Blame procrastination.
Consider this weblog not officially opened yet, like a beta. I hope to be done with the basic features next monday… so you’ll have the benefit to see a design and work in progress. Until then, check back often or subscribe to my RSS feed for updates.

Oh, and happy new year. :)

If you like Get Your War On, you may just dig Debbie, no!, yet another hilarious use of old comics for political satire.
You ignorant bitch! This is bigger than your jacket!

I knew I was following some kind of meme.

I have no idea if this is a good idea or not, but starting blogs on New Year’s Day seems like a good idea to me.

And I come back to you now — at the turn of the tide.
- Gandalf

I’m lending a hand to WordPress development now, to help with the upcoming 1.0 release, and the first visible result is a new bookmarklet that doesn’t duplicate code and looks nice enough. :)
(WIP screenshot of that bookmarklet)

Spotted at Znarf’s, this advertisement for FrontPage 2003 tells us they got rid of bloat code. Ain’t it nice?
Now look closely and you’ll see javascript functions names starting with ‘MM_’, just like those you can get when authoring a page with …DreamWeaver. Gotta love the subliminal attack on their competitors!

• 50% of road accidents caused by Speeding
• 30% caused by Alcohol

When our governments are done eradicating Alcohol and Speeding, will they at last eradicate Stupidity?

Still got some modifications to do on my local WordPress, and I’ll be ready to blog.
About the photolog, since it won’t be ready just yet, you’ll find three thumbnail links to some of my realisations hosted on DeviantArt. Every other day I’ll freshen the links to make them point to new (or old) realisations.

Step 1: Steal underwear.
Step 2: …
Step 3: Profit! Go to jail.

So, I figured that I wouldn’t really get motivated to work on this weblog until I actually blog publicly on it. Consider this weblog opened, then.
For more information, say “Hello World” and push the star key: *.

Mark Bernstein laments the lack of “an open-source, public utility” to convert a given Atom feed into an RSS equivalent.

Antonio Cavedoni delivers a solution: an Atom 0.3 to RSS 1.0 converter, and made the XSL stylesheet public for whoever wants to provide a similar service or send improvements.

So there it is, public and opensource.

iTunes hates Aquarion and screwed up at Morbus’s.
Rhythmbox likes me.

From extreme social networking to extreme walking to extreme skinny dipping to extreme wedding to extreme cooking to extreme babysitting to extreme ironing to extreme sandwiching.

As Joi Ito talks about the emerging Iranian blogging scene (encoding Farsi as utf-8), and just as Olivier Meunier talks about adding utf-8 support to DotClear, one may wonder “What about WordPress?”

Up to this day, WordPress continuated the b2 way of using iso-8859-1 as default. You could set a $admin_area_charset variable to ‘utf-8′ or whatever charset you wanted, but you still had to hardcode your preferred charset in the default template (and the comments popup’s) and in the login/register area.
No more hardcoding. Yesterday support for choosing your charset has been added to WordPress’s incoming 1.1 release, so now it’s only a matter of going straight to the General Options screen.

( I’d like to take this occasion to congratulate the WP team for their options handling. While I thought it was overkill, it’s actually very well thought: adding this option was only a matter of adding a row to the ‘wp_options’ table in the database, and editing files to make them use $blog_charset instead of iso-8859-1. The options backend takes care of validating the input too, so no more “let’s make sure they entered a string of that max length” or “let’s make sure it’s a number and not a string”, since you defined these in the row you added to the options table. )

Quick URI grabber script for XChat: urigrabber.py.
Simply because the built-in URI grabber sucks: it doesn’t log URIs with their context, and it’s gone when you close XChat.
Screenshot (tail -f ~/xchat-uri-feed.txt)

Forest of Plastic
(This is not my hairbrush.)

Google “I’m feeling lucky” boxer shorts. You don’t want to wear those on a date with Clint Eastwood.
(via Webfroot)

Russian comic featuring Herr Schicklgruber and Komrade Dzhugashvili (with his thick Georgian accent), superheroes-style.

Because I forgot to blog these pictures, and because I had never blogged on a February 29th:

Enlightened Umbrella

The Gemini Trees

Self #two

Five in the afternoon, last friday:

E Colore di a Citadella

L’Allée des Meurtrières