Look, someone's on that tree

01:58 pm - goodbye LiveJournal

I am sick and tired of you LiveJournal. You want me to pay for subscription in the same time as you are filling my inbox here and in my email with spam. You keep loosing the order of my posts, you keep 'archiving' them making the backup sync impossible for me and you keep sending me stupid update emails about how often you change your header. I hate you. And I am leaving you. 

Goodbye!

PS. My original blog with blogger is still active and very well, I am already using it actively and intend to keep doing it while you die in loneliness. It is true, they marked it as NSFW but who cares, people either read it or not. 

06:20 pm - Storm!

Very nice poem by Tim Minchin. I advise anyone who understands English to hear it. I bet most of you know at least one 'Storm'.

10:17 am - Torchwood is coming back!!!

Oh, and by the way LiveJournal is so spammy these days, it is ridiculous! I am not the gatekeeper of my f**king blog! If I wanned to do spam filtering myself I would have set up my own blogging platform. So screw you livejournal! And screw all Russian spammers! I am getting out of here!

09:44 pm - On a clear day you can see all the way to conspiracy

Very nice story this week on Escapepod!

Well narrated this one also!

12:40 am - Кози обувчици

Много яки кози обувчици, малко като на дявол крачетата, но повече като на козичка:

04:29 pm - Disable third party JS form submission

Let's say you have a very nice form on your page and you dislike people who write user script. Scripts that mess up with your form for example.
Typical form submission with user script would be:

10:38 am - Node js on port 80

Yes, I know, nodejs on port 80 is not a good idea, however if the project completely disregards the proven http servers and completely relies on node for all http traffic we need to make compromises. Or not.

Here is how I run node as main http server:

03:24 pm - Whales sounds

Вместо да четете Дийпак Чопра и неговите измишльотини за неподвластното на времето тяло, горещо ви препоръчвам да слушате китове ето тук
Особено яко е keening/loaning.
Да предупредя, по-добре пеят от Карл Сегън (той нали се опитваше да ги имитира в един епизод на Космос, не особено успешно според мен).

02:57 pm - Deepak Chopra asnwers a question

Може и да не знаете кой е Дийпак Чопра, но е факт, че е продал доста книги, повечето от така наречените 'спиритуални'.

Аз самият за известен период от време бях очарован от този измислен свят на набивалици, чудеса, изцеления, срещи с предишни животи и така нататък. Лесно е да започнеш да си вярваш и да вярваш на тези, които с ткаъв авторитетен тон твърдят измислиците си. Но не това е темата сега, а видеото отдолу. Насладете се:)


Линк към видеото в YouTube

07:10 pm - YouTube changes

YouTube has changed the way they provide the video URL, so Free YouTube script is not working any more.

However the change is trivial, here are the updated bits:

11:20 pm - Note to self

Node is actually perfect for testing JavaScript snippets in console environment when my computer is overloaded with 100 other things and I should not start another browser to just test 5 lines of code.

11:31 am - Javasscript timers and time

Introduction:

Javascript provides means to postpone execution of a function with 'setTimeout' and 'setInterval'. How is this handled exactly and what does it mean for embedded devices/ set top box type of devices using gecko/webkit is used for its interface.

Example:

A basic function of each STB is to display a clock somewhere in the user interface. Bellow is a very simple class that does exactly that.

Calls a function repeatedly, with a fixed time delay between each call to that function.

10:02 pm - Botnets?

Today on New Scientist was an entry about a research from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis computer specialists that states: 

06:18 pm - Хомеопатията срещу 1023

На адрес 1023.org.uk можете да научите какво ще се състои този уикенд.

А долу можете да видите Джеймс Ранди, който отправя предизвикателството си отново към хомеопатите:
Връзка към видеото в YouTube
Защо поствам това? Защото, като доста поболедувал човек смятам, че е важно да се пазим активно от измамници, ако ще измамата да е за милиарди, пак си остава измама. Дори когато я рекламират по телевизията постоянно. Дори когато някой ваш познат се кълне, че му е помогнало такъв вид лечение. Това все още си остава измама. Дори когато 'експерти' обясняват по 'научен' канал на кабелната как всъщност работи този вид лечение и какви дълбоки научни тайни се крият в него - пак си е просто схема за измама, почиваща на недоказани теории, на догадки и често на обикновени, макар и добре скроени лъжи!

За това, прочетете и научете повече. Важно е да знаете кога някой се опитва да ви измами. По новините често говорят за измамници, които взимат парите на хората по все нови и нови схеми. Но защо ли не говорят за този вид измама, с която взимат парите на хората от десетилетия.

12:05 am - Може ли кандидат за работа да каже че ИЕ е боклук?

We shouldn't blame browsers while we are professional front-end developers.

Асене: Може би не, но определено не е необходимо и да им се радваме или да спестяваме коментарите от рода на "IE e боклук'. Защото е истина. Особено когато клиента иска свърхмодерното му, 3d SVG CSS3 transition driven приложение да работи и в ИЕ6. Извинете. Цитат и от професионални програмисти (такива, които не пишат на джаваскрипт, а на  С и се занимават с енджините за които пишем ние ):

09:51 pm - Craigery Morgan TV debut

He became a YouTube sensation a few months ago, he is really cute and funny and now he is on TV! The last night episode of "$#!* my dad says" featured him as Abercrombie sales person. He is really nice looking and great facial expression for comedy too. Bellow is a capture:

01:14 pm - Как не се прави сайт/услуга през уеб

За пример ще вземем 'най-популярния български сайт за запознанства' - gepime.com

Че е популярен - популярен е. Но не защото е добре направен, а защото е пълен с порнография 'на една ръка разстояние'. Това е друга тема и в случая не е от значение.

Това, което ще коментирам е, защо един сайт изглежда така сякаш е събран 'от вол и кон'.

Забележките:

• съобщението, че имаш ново писмо се появява ту отдолу, ту отгоре (тоест или в така наречената лента на състоянието, която като цяло е голяма идиотщина или горе, в иконите, които са доста големи). Понякога се появява и на двете места, понякога никъде не се появява, докато не обновиш страницата. Това, че се появява ту тук ту там, при това ако се появи на двете места не става по едно и също време според мен е голяма тъпотия, ако искаш за едно и също събитие да имаш реакция на две места не ходиш да проверяваш събитието два пъти а връзваш към него множество 'слушатели'. Явно тази концепция още не е стигнала до списващите софтуера на Гепи.
• всички снимки са на флаш - по-голяма идиотщина от това не знам. Ако предположим че го правят зарази възможността за анотации - пак е тъпо, защото същата възможност я има от години и само с html/js. Ако искат да предпазват снимките от злоупотреба (което не го вярвам), какво ми пречи да си направя копие на снимките? Уеб видео - да, ясно е че някои браузъри няма да се справят и там е до някъде оправдано, ама снимки?
• чести и множество правописни грешки в елементи, които не са генерирани от потребителите а от авторите на сайта
• информационни съобщение не се извеждат по един и същи начин: понякога получаваме тъпия надпис, че искат да си платим като диалогов прозорец, но друг път страницата сама се превърта до мястото където е въпросния надпис. А най-мразим когато страницата върши сама неща, които се предполага, че потребителя трябва да може само той да прави. Самата липса на консистенция също ме дразни
• на началната страница няма почти нищо, което да можеш да ползваш, ако не си си платил. Едно е да има подкана да си купиш някаква екстра и да ти се зареждат безплатните неща, друго е да влезеш в сайт, който те посреща все едно няма какво да предложи ако не си си цакал. Аз за това и толкова го ползвам, пускам го само за да показвам калпав дизайн с още по-калпаво изпълнение.
• не само началната страница, но и все повече и повече места просто изчезват и се заменят с надпис : Само за VIP. Защо не пише 'само за платили си'? Някак си по-реално е. И когато почнеш да орязваш едно по едно нещата, които правят сайта полезен какво точно очакваш да се случи, освен че малкото нормални и разумни хора спират да го ползват....

09:59 pm - Cloud 9 beta

It was announced today - cloud9 now accepts user registration, which means one can apply and if approved can start developing applications on their servers.

Unfortunately, as mentioned earlier in this blog, my opinion is that the technology, while somewhat mature and really interesting, is not fast enough to compete with regular editor, like gEdit, which has its quirks also, but at least is not choking my laptops to death when loading several thousand lines of code. Not that I think this kind of code is manageable in one file, but still some libraries come that way and I need to be able to look in the code. If the editor cannot do it, then its no use at all.

What I really want to see added (apart from better performance, which I don't think will happen, maybe one day when I have a gazillion cores laptop and the browser can use them all...):

• code completion with suggestions (because I tend to do lot of typos, it is really annoying to go over fixing typos)
• bracketing selection (because I often forget about them, not only brackets but all kind of coupled things, it would be nice to be able to make a selection and ten just type the leading coupled sign (like '(' or '"') and the editor fix those for you
• automatic indentation - this is not working very well for now, it indents okay most of the time, but does not un-indent correctly. gEdit for that matters does not do it correctly too. Vim does it correctly. 
• properties and methods listing: I do not know of an editor that can make sense of javascript's objects, but if anyone knows, please, please, please let me know. I want to be able to see all private functions, all public methods, all privileged methods, all public properties and if possible all private properties as per the function definition so the following example would be searchable:

07:49 pm - Update pretifier

I have continued to play around with LiveJournal's update page.

I feel I need more space for the entry, so I shrank the metainfo related stuff in expandable (but not expanded by default) div and increased the height of the post entry frame.

The code is available at pastebin.

I have also worked a bit on the editor capabilities, now the image editing with pins on top and shadows is available as button in the toolbar and the code for the other stuff I wrote before is cleaned up.

As with many other things in life, once you get deeper into it, it becomes easy and clear.

So as of now I accept proposals for other functions to be added to the editor.

The script is also available on Usersciprts.org if you want to try it out. I have tested it only in Firefox 3.6. It might or might not work on other user script enabled browsers, depending on their implementation.

And because I love posting pictures of gorgeous guys here is one:

03:18 pm - Update on the Editor script

I have encountered a small issue (GreaseMonkey being 'bad' and wrapping the HTMLElement, thus wrapped elements are never equal, even if they are in the DOM) and I had to use the unwrapped version (wrappedElement.wrappedJSObject).

This makes the script not that ideal, but it still works. The following two paragraphs are for testing of both warning messages and code snippets:

01:11 am - Customize LiveJournal Post composer

I have been developing advanced custom interfaces with JavaScript for some time now and while I still do not think that whole IDEs written in that language are ready for prime time, I do believe we should be able to extend the already present functionality for our fave web sites.

One easy way to do this is using 'user scripts'.

I use some custom classes in my blog in LiveJournal and there is no easy way to add divs with class names in the HTML editor. However it is fairly easy to add more buttons to the toolbar (I honestly do believe the empty space on the second row is left for users like me, who like to add more buttons!!!).

There are however some limitations when working with multiple iframes.

First of all nodes should either be created in the context of the iframe to which they will be added or created in outer context and imported. Other than that there is nothing special.

Sample code follows (assuming it is executed from 'top' context, however the function should actually be created in the context of the draft iframe to attach the event to the load event of the frame we are targeting, so have this in mind if you take the example code and intend to use it for your own custom buttons):

	var button_action = function(){
		var cDocument = document.getElementById('draft___Frame')
			.contentDocument.getElementById('xEditingArea')
			.childNodes[0].contentDocument;
		var cWindow = document.getElementById('draft___Frame')
			.contentDocument.getElementById('xEditingArea')
			.childNodes[0].contentWindow;


		var oSeclection = cWindow.getSelection();

		if (oSeclection.anchorNode !== oSeclection.focusNode ){
			var i, i1, i2, tmp;
			if (oSeclection.anchorNode === cDocument.body )
				i1 = oSeclection.anchorOffset;
			else {
				for (i=0; i< cDocument.body.childNodes.length; i++){
					if (cDocument.body.childNodes[i] ===
						 oSeclection.anchorNode){
						i1 = i;	
						break;	
					}
				}
			}
			if (oSeclection.focusNode === cDocument.body)
				i2 = oSeclection.focusOffset;
			else {
				for (i=0; i< cDocument.body.childNodes.length; i++){
					if (cDocument.body.childNodes[i] === 
						oSeclection.focusNode){
						i2 = i;		
						break;
					}
				}
			}
			if (i1 > i2) {
				i = i1;
				i1 = i2;
				i2 = i;
			}
			var docFragment = cDocument.createElement('div');
			docFragment.setAttribute('class','cod');
			for (i = i1; i <= i2; i++){
				docFragment.appendChild(cDocument.body.childNodes[i]
					.cloneNode(true));
			}
			for (i = i2; i >= i1; i--){
				cDocument.body.removeChild(cDocument.body.childNodes[i]);
			}
			i = cDocument.body.insertBefore(docFragment, cDocument.body
				.childNodes[i1]);
		}
		else {
			var i;
			for (i=0; i< cDocument.body.childNodes.length; i++){
				if (cDocument.body.childNodes[i] === oSeclection.anchorNode){
					break;	
				}
			}
			var docFragment = cDocument.createElement('div');
			docFragment.setAttribute('class','cod');
			docFragment
				.appendChild(cDocument.body.childNodes[i].cloneNode(true));
			cDocument.body.removeChild(cDocument.body.childNodes[i]);
			i = cDocument.body
				.insertBefore(docFragment, cDocument.body.childNodes[i]);
		}
	};

10:06 pm - Harel

I know i am getting boring with all posts about Harel Skaat, but hey, this is my blog, so I will post whatever I want.

First - Words (Milim) in English with Karina Pasian. The performance is stunning!
Video link

End for a final accent - Od yair alay sung live in the studio:
Video link

04:37 pm - Cloud 9

I have been looking into using Cloud9 for JavaScript development. The project has just announced new release.

Installation on Linux (Fedora 13) went smooth, first one will need the latest stable Node from NodeJS project. Download and compile as usual, I have installed it with root, however it can be installed as regular user. Once this is installed I used npm (node package manager) and install cloud9. Start i with

08:17 pm - A few movies.

As many of us know, the holidays can be quite lonely time. If you are also ill it makes the time passes even slower. So sooth my pain and soul I decided to give a few movies a shot. It was about time, since my 300GB hard drive is having only 20 gigs free now, everything else is pending my review.

So here we go. First - Letters to Juliet. A romantic ... something. I don't know, it is very slow paced, very cliche inclined and pretty much we all know what happens at the end. The beautiful scenery simply does not cut it, especially compared to the previous hit of the young lady in the leading role - Mamma mia. And by the way he really good view is coming too late (in the face of Christofer Egan).


Next - David's birthday (original title Il compleanno). Very Italian movie, no doubt. Lands it right in the middle of all other Italian movies about straight guys going south. Nothing interesting really, the only interesting character being the souse killer/brother/uncle. The young Thyago Alves is nice to look at though, however I don't really understand all the Italian/French movie makers - why does the young, hot, awesome good looking guys have to always fornicate with someone twice their age. It looks they do it just so that something dramatic can happen, like being outed or kill someone. I don't get it, why not do it with someone their own age? The scene where Davit is masturbating is really awesome, you can see him sweating in the dim light, its really good. Much better than, say, 'Broke straight boys'.

I would love to add one more, but all of theme would be just waste of your time as it was of mine. Just to protect you from doing the deed:

• You again - really really awful, first it was okay, the rage and vindictiveness in the protagonost were awesome and then she went all fluffy and forgiving - BAD movie!
• Transilmania - American Pie - again, this time even stupider. I bet they did it just to see if a movie can me made even more stupid.
• Unresolved suburbia - total lack of cinematographic skills and actors - just some ugly teens kissing with everything that moves. And that's it.

06:42 pm - My ninja name

My ninja name is: Nokuchikashi!

05:07 pm - End of an era or how we should not favour our past on the expense of the present day

Dear Mr. Mandla,

I am happy to report that my adventurous love affair with your blog is now over.

I find it mostly waste of time for the following reasons:

• while all your arguments and howtos are viable and practical, you tend to proclaim the fallacy that:

  using console interface is the path to the true computing, which is (scientifically and measurably) untrue

  Using keyboard only to navigate between several contexts might look to you like you are more effective, but it is actually not, it just seems that way for you. Adequately measuring the performance from a remote stand point will reveal that this is not the truth, it just is apprehended that way by the operator/user because the brain is actively involved in doing the switching between the contexts, while when using the X (or any other window environment) this is mostly 'brainless' operation, your hand moves the mouse to the point where your eyes see the task/context, you proceed to the task as you see it, you don't have to know where it is, it is simple mechanical exercise.



• your statement discards the true nature of the www

  while it is true that some web authors tens to overuse the styling capabilities of the modern browser environment, it is also entirely true that the user have complete absolute control over the presentation of the information in the browser

  css can be disabled completely, image loading can be disabled, javascript can be disabled, advertising can be disabled, plugins can be disabled. More over, the learning curve for text only browser compared to one time configuration of a modern browser to display the information as text only browser is significantly more acceptable. One can share its browser configuration and while text only browser configuration can also be shared between users still the high learning curve for navigation and adequate advanced uses remains, while regular browser learning curve is pretty much one step - learn to use the mouse to point to an object and click. More over - it requires expertise way beyond the one of the average user to configure video/picture display (content that IS important, unless one is only interested in technical documentation, because all other documentation can benefit from diagrams and other image representation of the data) which is point 3 in your fallacy statements



• all image/video/graphics/sounds embedded in a web page are useless and distract the user from the actual content

  while this can be true in some cases, most viable sources of information at least try to use the tools of modern day web environment for the benefit of the user and not for distraction

  Again, the user have complete control over the user experience received from the web (which is NOT the case for regular application, will get there in a minute). Lots and lots of web applications simply would not exists without the modern capabilities of the browser environment. Applications that ARE useful, like web calendars (I will not go into the cloud vs personal data here, you can run your calendar application on your server as well as on google/yahoo and still make it available on your phone!), banking applications, data mining and visualization, real time data presentation and so on. Using audio directly in the browser is very scarcely used anyway, while using video to present the outlines of a big chunk of information or demoing a large project is very popular and NOT because people are lazy to read the full article, it is just more easily apprehended because it involves presenting more dense bits in shorter time. It is as simple as that, sorry but it is truth. Also images ARE important, how fast can one describe the snow on his street in words and in picture? Even you have to admit it. And it is also true, today 99% of the pictures are exchanged via http. Take for example the density of information you can get from a photo blog using elinks and firefox/webkit - load the blog and go... I bet I will be finished with the blog before you can even load the first 10 pictures. Talking about effective use of our time, not "right way to use computers"



• console applications are more useful: i don't even have to comment on this one, but I will

  while there are some very capable console application, (for example newsbeuter is extremely powerful in its filtering!), the learning curve for them and the usability are much lower, which makes the statement that computing is not for grandpas true, which thank god is not anymore!

  First of all pointing and clicking on well known icon / signs (like the play sign which is UNIVERSAL and well known and easy to remember and recognize) is much much more easy to learn and easy to use than remember how the same action is performed in each and every application (as console applications tend to NOT follow some sort of standard on how things are done, there are almost no music/video players to make the same thing the same way in console world). Second - contest switching from point one is valid here too - one does not really have to switch context first before perform action in another context, while 2 or more contexts can be observed and acted upon if desired.
  
  Lets say I have browser and torrent client. In console I have to first switch from browsing to torrent context, then perform the desired action. In regular GUI i just perform the action should both context are observable (which (if they are) I can decide and not rely on specific predefined configuration like I have to in console (using screen or similar utility)).
  
  And then we have again density of information: representing actions as buttons with well known signs / icons is very powerful, as the sign is the same while the action can be relevant: example: in torrent client play sign will start the file while in music player the same will play the song, in IDE it will run make, in service configuration tool it will start the service. The user can guess the action from the context of it, while in console application while some provide "help" menu somewhere the user mostly HAVE to know how to perform an action. eventually most user will learn, but it is pointless and wasting time. The performance in account of the user interaction will never reach the one of GUI app.
  
  Here we face also the language barrier: most applications are written in English, should the user NOT know the language - we are done. Some console apps can be translated easily, some might not at all, but using icons and buttons IS universal. So stating that using console applications is more powerful is complete fallacy, how powerful an application is depends on the developer not the medium. The same applies to its resource demands: while it is true that pretty much all GUI apps require more resources to run, it is also true that this depends entirely on the developer: I for one have developed WEB interface for an application and the GUI for it is run on the browser, while the application work is headless. The application of its own requires as low resources as one written for the console and still provides more useful interface to its functionality. The fact that most applications rely on GTK/QT/KDElibs is true, but it is related to laziness and speed of development, the original Xlib was a small hell and very very hard to use. This is why GUI libs are predominant, they open the computing world to more developers. Same with Web apps - making useful things with javascript is so easy, pretty much anyone can start using it!
  
  Web app can be very easily translated and can be upgraded and updated as much as the author wants, edge cases (where for example no JS is avalable) can also be handled, more over the application can be easily modified on the user side (using client scripting for example - something that is mostly impossible for you for example, as you do not know C and cannot modify the applications you use, you rely entirely on the developer).

08:55 pm - Those were the days my friend..

Those were the days my friend..
Original lyrics (Russian):

09:42 pm - JavaScript engine differences

Like it is not enough that we have to deal with browser differences in styles implementation (like opacity normalization for example), with lack of DOM retrieval differences (mostly between IE and the rest) - now I have to deal with native objects method differences.

Being a fully fledged JavaScript developer for some time now I have to admit - I hate it when there are differences between execution environments. IE6 is completely out of the picture - if someone uses IE6 - screw him, he/she can browse the Internet with text browser as well! I don't care! But facing issues like difference in the implementation of String methods was something I was not prepared for:

10:32 pm - In between (men)

I have been watching The A-list: NY and it was really disappointing, I mean who wants to watch bunch of gay guys fighting and bitching all the time, like if it was their profession or worse, their true self.

Anyway, it seems there is a better show - In between men. It is a web series format (meaning the episodes are really short, 10 minutes each) but it is also full of gorgeous men and yet - they, while scripted, seem to act more appropriate and more in sync with the real world! I suggest you take a look, it will, I bet you'll find them more pleasing than the asshats on the A-list.

Here is the link to the site where you can watch the series.

06:43 pm - All starts - Let is br

Wow! Just wow!
In the video bellow you can see everyone, I mean EVERYONE you happen to see on TV/MTV and had forgotten! Like 'Bud' from "Married, with children", Rene from "Allo, Allo", Stephen Gately from Boyzone (RIP), Kate Turner and many, many more, including Bud Spenser (my GOD he looks 100 y.o.)! I have seen so many people I recognize in this clip, it is almost impossible, like my brain has hard times remembering them all right now, but just watch it, okay?
Video Link to cover of Let It Be

04:19 pm - Конфигуриране на i3 за нормална работа (за хора идващи от ГНОМ среда)

В този пост ще се постарая да опиша как се конфигурират неща, като "кирилица, превключване между кирилица и латиница, специални символи, мултимедийни клавиши, яркост на монитора, време на заспиване на монитора, настройки на шрифтовете, настройки на темите" и разни други подробности, заради които много хора, макар да не ползват Гном среда, а нещо по-леко и по-бързо в крайна сметка по някакъв начин след стартиране на сесията изпълняват:

• да си оправим темата на малкото стартирани гтк приложения
• да си настроим приспиването на монитора

11:09 pm - Истината зад рекламата

Преди време споделих за малкия подарък от Clinique. Сториха ми се много добри, но това за съжаления трая по-малко от седмица. Много бързо кожата ми реагира негативно, зашеметяващо бързо всъщност, появи се цялостно зачервяване, сякаш съм стоял над вряща тенджера с боб. Въпреки високата си цена, продуктите не се оказаха нито по-подходящи за мен, нито по-добри. Напротив, оказаха се много по-лоши. За да съм сигурен за какво говоря направих експеримент, като всеки добър скептик, спря ги за две седмици и после пак пробвах - нада! Същото се получи, една седмица мека гладка кожа и след това - зачервявания.

Едно трябва да кажа тук, да е напълно ясно - който иска да си купи, нека си купи, не са много скъпи и са добър 'entry level' по пътя към прахосване на пари. Но не очаквайте чудеса. Тези митични истории с това как микро липидни капсули доставяли безценни вещества в дълбочината на кожата да ги разправят на баба ми! Истината е съвършено проста, я достигне нещо до подходящите места, я не, но дори и да достигне я се метаболизира правилно, я не, а дори и да се метаболизира правилно, я е достатъчно, я не. Нека изпитва тялото и кръвта ви недостиг на нещо си, па чакайте кожата да се захранва чрез кремове.

В този ред на мисли, ефективността на помадите на Clinique е почти същата като да се полеете с газирана вода.

И понеже някой някъде беше споменал и за "почистването на кожата с естествени масла" - ойдете се гръмнете, преди да се намажете с смес от зехтин и рициново масло и да се наведете над тенджерата с врящия боб. И между другото крайния ефект е същия - зачервяване на кожата, ставате като домат. Един вид - узрявате.

Та следващия, който реши да ми купи/подари/предложи крем за 100 лева на бурканче ще го изяде. Немит.

01:58 pm - Varna

The dancing stars at the entrance of the Sea garden in Varna, November 20th, 2010

11:41 am - News reading from the console

It is a bit misleading, the tag of this post I mean.

Now that I am no longer running any Gnome applications, the tag should probably be changed, but I will leave that for another time.

Recent years I have been having an affair with the console on Linux. There have been some good and some bad moments. However my wrist pain got worse, so regardless of the 'regular user' pros and cons, I have switched to console again.

Not that I don't run X. Unlike Mr. Mandla, I still want to see some web pages with their images (mostly blog entries with 20 and more images in them, viewing those one by one in links is tedious).

In this case one can use Vimperator, which is an add-on for Firefox, that makes it behave much like Vim. This is all good, but unfortunately firefox starts very slow, it is very noisy (too much output for my taste when started from the console). It is only once process, yes, started once it can be used. Yeah, but I want to view just one or two pages a day, waiting for 15 seconds just to start is not gonna cut it.

Enter 'surf'. The most minimalistic browser EVER. It uses webkit and 10 shortcuts. And that's it. And it loads really, really fast. Because there is nothing but webkit.

For images I use 'feh'. It can load the images from the Internet and locally, so it is all good. I use it to view messages from my news (will get there in a bit) and from elinks. Once elinks is configured to use MIME types and images are pointed to use feh it works really nice. How about flash video?

Enter clive. It is in the repos, so not hassle installing it. Use it with mplayer and you don't even have to switch anything regardless of the medium (i.e. X or no X). Detailed instructions are available here.

What about the news I have mentioned? Well, I was in a limbo for a while now, between google reader and newsbeuter. The thing with greader is that you get your news anywhere. The keyboard shortcuts are great, they provide both list view and page view which is great for image blogs. Sounds all good, except I miss the filter language that is available in newsbeuter. Turns out it is possible to configure newsbeuter to work with google reader! And then again, I have to keep all my things on their servers.

Don't get me wrong, I find it very pleasing especially for emails, because I get my emails on my Android phone. But my feeds.... I don't know why, maybe because I had issues before with the loss of some entries or I don't know... it is just I am not comfortable with everything being there. So I switched back to load URL source for now.

Wrote a little script to handle different type of media from the newsbeuter 'browser' command (so when I start 'open-in-browser' I am actually submitting the link to a script that decides how to handle it, feh for images, clive/mplayer for video, links for html).

The Internet can tell you how to use alpine/mutt with google main, but as mentioned I don't get that much of mail so I use my phone for it.

It seems that this is all, I get everything else from console applications, including mc, mocp, hbn, vim and a few bash scripts to handle various situations.

There is however one major exception. I use homebank to handle my finances, I have not discovered console tool to manage this. I enter my day to day expenses from cli script I wrote and once in a while I import it to homebank, but still this binds me to X.

Anyone knowing any PFM (Personal Finance Manager) for the console?

12:59 pm - Stoning to death

What does stoning to death means? National Post (Canada) explains it for us.

Excuse me, but who will EVER want to live in Iran? I would be ashamed to be citizen of such country!

05:29 pm - The oath of Spartacus

So here it is - The oath of Spartacus - fragment. I like the angle and the accent on the face of the boy.

05:38 pm - My new desktop

I know I am making fun of all the guys (and probably some girls) constantly sharing their current desktops on the Internet, but hey, mine isn't bad! Not bad at all! (What you see is i3 with dzen2 (and probably me1)).

05:25 pm - Из старите писания

Умна жена - приказно същество, съчетаващо красота и интелект
Каляска - спортен модел каруца, две врати, две седалки, до 8 конски сили

12:24 pm - I am gonna be fantastic

Is this how straight guys say 'fantastic'?

I love it!

11:11 am - On the matter of Holly War Against Homos

The everlasting dilema on should we proceed with abortion should we know for sure the embrio would turn out to be homosexual - I aways enjoy the debate and often encourage the priests to go into it, it's kind of funny and stupid at the same time. Here we get it on a new level:

11:46 pm - Quiet

Brian Justin Crum - Quiet (at Joe's pub - Broadway Impact, 2010)


Kyle Dean Massey - What kind of fool am I (at Joe's pub - Broadway Impact, 2010)


Brian Justin Crum & Kyle Dean Massey - Who will love me as I am (at Joe's pub - Broadway Impact, 2010)


And this is what it's all about


(plus you get to see Kyle Dean's chest hair)

02:16 pm - Още един си призна

Харел Скат си призна. Сякаш никой не се досещаше де...

Понеже отдавна 'се знаем' с него, ми беше странна цялата тази тайнственост около личния му живот. Например конкурента му в предаването, с което проби в Израел (пак със същото малко име - Харел Мойал), не съм забелязал да се крие много, като беше в България, чак му се появи снимката по едни 'специфични' сайтове. От друга страна, явно Скат искаше да стане много, ама много известен, преди да се раздуха цялата история.

01:20 pm - Christianity explained

03:04 pm - Linux desktop has saved the cub seal

Years ago I have posted about the findings of UK government study related to e-waste indicating that using Linux operating system can prolong the useful life of the computer equipment.

Those years ago I have not owned a computer for long enough to be able to confirm it. But now I have. My own laptop is 7 years and 10 months old now. Apart from the faulty hard drive (which was gone on the second year) the laptop is still running, the software has been updated many many times but the operability is still there.

My dad is now using it with basic Fedora 12 install (plus skype and video codecs). No significant impairment of usability is observed. I use the same hardware on my work laptop for the last 5 years and I can assure you it is capable of doing almost anything you can think of, except playing really large video files. And then again most computers can't do it.

So yes, the seal cub was saved. Partially by me, I like to think so!

02:26 pm - Няколко снимки от миналия месец

Няколко снимки от миналият месец не намерих ред и място да бъдат публикувани на време. Днес назря момента.

Първата е от изложбата на котки провела се във Варна, в Двореца на спорта миналата седмица. Повечето котки бяха от сивите (явно сега те са на мода), но имаше и един два сфинкса, както и една огромна с много дълга козина, чиято порода не ми стана ясна, но беше върха. Снимката обаче показва една розова котка (за съжаление цвета е малко неясен, защото я заснех с камерата на телефона), само дето котето беше толкова изплашено и озлобено, че дори на снимка се вижда агресията:

12:05 am - Livejournal integration with Vim 7.x

I have played aroun with PyLjVim script to tune it for better intergation with my workflow.

Here are the changes I have introduced to make it easier to work with:

• Instead of always loading the macros (:LJ*) add :au command for *.lj filenames to source the macros file
• Changed macros file to use current file instead of creating new buffer and to keep the buffer after posting to LiveJournal servers
• Edited macros file to set filetype to livejournal to match snippet file (see bellow)
• Source ~/.vim/after/lj.vim from macros file, in after file add settings for closetag vim plugin to be used in LJ posts as html is supported and then source the closetag plugin, invoke LJTemplate also to load template in current buffer
• Edited pyljpost.py python script to support tags when posting, tags and pictures implemented as snippets (see bellow)
• Added snippet file for LiveJournal filetype to implement links, quotes, code and tags/pictures

09:42 pm - Най-нежното удоволствие!

08:21 pm - Buxfer is DOWN!

08:55 am - Outsourced

In the sea of old and new series bombarding the silver screen, if you are like me, each season you are desperately looking for a drop of fresh idea, a nice to watch, interesting enough but not in obsessive ways, new series to watch.

Just like Drop dead diva it is funny, easy to watch, the episodes does not seem to be strongly connected, so you are not in anxiety to watch the next one (like with Glee), and yet interesting enough to force us to enjoy it.

• My generation (pretty awesome, if you are into those kind of realities)
• S#!% My dad says (comedy, not very original, not at all, just put balls on the mother in law in every family commedy you can think of and voilà)
• The whole truth (I confess - I like law)
• The defenders (see above... Indeed I like it)

08:04 pm - The commitment (by Dan Savage)

Okay, I confess, I am a fan. Not that I read his column regularly (and not that I can, since I don't buy subscriptions for news papers). But I have watched his QAs on youtube and I can tell he is a funny guy. And nice to look at. For a gay man on my age this is almost as he's Apollo himself.