I must say, I'm pretty proud of the helmet :)

I've been recently rather hooked into last.fm, and, pardon the pun, it rocks. Well, except that someone had already registered the username "Ozh" and I had to twist a bit.

I've always liked statistics and useless figures, so a service computing charts of most liked artists and tracks I'm listening to is fun. I even wish the site would keep track of all tracks played, instead of just the 10 recent ones, so I even wrote a script that checks the list every 30 minutes to log everything ever into a MySQL table :)

The best thing to me over there is the radio station defined by my "neighbours", i.e. users with similar tastes. I've been listening to this particular station the whole night and not clicked the "skip track" button once (something I do usually very easily).

I love this site.

So, if I had the slightest interest in politics, it seems I would be a moderate libertarian, a Social Liberal (61% permissive) and an Economic Conservative (65% permissive). "You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness", it says.

Ok, who cares about my results in the test, anyway. The interesting stuff on this test were the questions. I'm not an american citizen, and obviously 80% of the questions seem completely weird and even unbelievable. Like, "heh, really, are they wondering this kind of things ???".

For a foreigner, not really a political test, but a view on the average US citizen concerns maybe :Þ (via)

I have a new face (get your mouse over me) (this post is not feed reader friendly, sorry :). I'm not completely used to it yet, the previous one lasted 10 years :)

We at home have the ultimate weapon against telemarketers, those annoying people who hassle you with phone calls at indecent hours, when you're expecting some quietness at home after work. Our ultimate weapon is : the 3 year-old kid.

Everytime the phone rings, Oscar runs and gets it. And starts talking just as if Grandma was calling : "Hello, I've had a good day today, at school Julia said I'm a good kid you know what ? I have a big red truck ! Also I have a new book" and goes on and on at a frantic pace.

The funniest thing is, if the telemarketer actually manages to insert a couple questions in this one-way discussion, like "is your mother at home right now ?", don't know why but Oscar usually replies something absolutely incongruous and unexpected, like "no, she'll be here Monday".

My wife and I are literally rolling on the floor laughing. This is deliciously hilarious :)

This screenshot of the "About…" splash screen is here to make French readers laugh. And they surely will, as the translation is by far the ubermost badest I've ever seen in a software, to a point that makes it pathetically funny.

The whole interface of Station Ripper is more or less as gawky as you would expect from the above screenshot. Honestly ugly. It looks like what I used to create in Visual Basic ten years ago.

Besides this, the software actually works pretty well. It's ripping Shoutcast streams into separate mp3 files, and hence claims to be a legal way to download music. Just as legal as recording a FM radio on a tape, I guess.