I'm usually not too fond of Flash, but I admit things like Flickr (my Flickr test gallery) have seriously impressed me. Speaking of which, I've found at Air Tight two pretty excellent Flash based tools, allowing one to create "Flickrish" galleries in the blinking of an eye (ok, maybe a couple of blinking)

I had already uploaded pictures from my last summer holidays in Malta in my regular Coppermine gallery. Creating just two simple .xml documents, I've been able to set up this Flash gallery. Not too bad (download links embedded in the Flash objects)

Another entry added to my ever-growing never-shrinking to-do list : script something to easily create flash galleries from a Coppermine gallery. Could be neat.

Something I can't get off these days is the awesome Google Maps service. A year ago I went for a really nice trip through south-west National Parks in the US, and I think I've done all the trip once more with Google :)

Here are some interesting links, gathering the most noteworthy places to see in North America. Can't wait for such a service, on a global scale (yes, tried Keyhole, but I'm far from being as impressed as I am with Google maps)

• Google Sightseeing: Why bother seeing the world for real ?
• Interesting Google Satellite maps: armchair sightseeing!
• Google GlobeTrotting: explore everything that can be seen from space !
• del.icio.us links & Flickr photos (unsorted links, quality may vary)

There are also a few presumably interesting links I'll note here for my own future reference if I ever happen to understand anything related to xmlffsxslt

• Google Maps Standalone: Google maps… in your site (unofficial, unauthorized etc…)
• Google Map Hacking Wiki

Major redesign complete ! If you're not a first time visitor, you probably didn't notice anything, but the whole site has been redesigned.

Visually, almost nothing has changed, except for a few things here and there. The most noticeable one is that I'm now making use of gravatars in the comments, little "avatars" than can represent you all over the web. Go sign up for a free one if you haven't already !

Besides this, I converted my site into a proper WordPress theme (it was still a mix of dirty hacks and files from my first install with WP 1.02 one year ago). The css is clean, the source contains no javascript, and all the javascript actions are dynamically created at load time. I borrowed a lot from Phonophunk, one of the best designed blog I know, and whose .css and .js have been my daily read for some weeks :) The whole stuff, of course, as if it were important, validates as xhtml-anything.

Any comment on this site layout ("ok", "sucks", "cool" ?) is very welcome !

Here is something odd : is Google supposed to deliver different content depending on the browser used ? While doing my periodic check on how the Wikipedia page about online poker rank in Google when looking for these terms, I noticed different results in MSIE and Firefox.

What the … ? I double checked Google's search options and preferences, I am positive there were no difference between the two browsers, but they still returned different results. And I don't really see why it would behave like this. Ever noticed something similar ?