There it is, my very first real plugin for WordPress ("very first" meaning of course you can expect two or three more within the next 200 years). This plugin guesses your visitor's Country from his IP (check these examples). Based upon the very good ip2nation free data, I've simply packaged it as a plugin.
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em : definition. I had never really wondered what exactly and how much an em is (as a relative unit in CSS). Interesting read, by the way
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By the way … I still have a couple of Gmail invites and just couldn’t find any friend that hasn’t got a Gmail account already. If you want one, leave a comment (name, email) and be happy.
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Drag & Drop for images and layers : fun, simple to use and install javascript code. Could be used for example in a “do it yourself” layout : users would rearrange things on a blog to suit their likes, and then save their layout in a cookie for future use…
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While waiting for my 2 year-old son's dinner to be ready, we were sitting together at my computer to watch a few pictures he likes. Then, wanting to see more, there we go for some image googling. What do you think a 2 years old boy wants to see ? Cars, trailers, trucks, bikes, animals, teddy bears. What do you think Google showed us ? Porn, porn and pr0n ! Have a (warned) look at these : nounours (teddy bear in French), velo (bicycle) or singe (monkey).
To be honest, I was more amused than shocked : Oscar is too young (at least I hope he is) to notice nasty details on a thumbnail page that I scroll fast when I see unwanted things on it. But what when he is 5 or 6 years old, on his own computer ? God, this internet is such a jungle … :)
Dog > Cat : as in $ cat .bashrc. Some interesting features, especially with HTML files, as described in the man page. Via dju`.
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EaZy RSS reader : Working at office and stuck in a Windows computer you cannot install software on ? Missing your home feed reader ? Use Excel ! (via PointBlog)
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Top 100 des blogs français : un avis somme toute personnel, mais à voir, par curiosité, pour trouver de bons candidats à ajouter à mon blogroll …
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I’m now using Matt‘s Asides, i.e. short items, mostly a la linkblog, I’ll fill under “Shorties”.
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I'm getting quite bored with something I'm seeing more and more : Firefox proganda.
On several websites, especially blogs, there is a small Firefox button, just as you can see here a button for planetOzh or WordPress. It's ok : on your own page, you're supposed to tell and show what you like. Be it Firefox button or an "I love French Fries and Mayonnaise" banner, it tells about you as much as a post about the last movie you've seen.
What gets boring is when the first thing I read on a page is a message like "Man, I can see you're using MSIE, Jeeeesus, that sucks big time, time to switch to Firefox dude !". It's like when I read on a website that I should use a Macintosh. I mean, cool for them if they are happy with their so-called Unix in Windows XP For Teletubbies disguise, but if I really wanted to use a Macintosh, I wouldn't be precisely using a PC. Same thing for Firefox.
In Windows, I'm using MSIE, because I want so. I know Firefox, I've extensively tested it and I'm using it on Linux, I use it now and then to check how a page displays, but my primary browser is MSIE, and more precisely the excellent IE based MyIE2. Im my opinion, it's just ten times better. There are dozens of features in MyIE2 that I can't find in Firefox plugins (not even talking about how many are bugged as hell), security in MSIE is very good when you're smart enough to tweak it and not let it by default (never had a trojan), and more important to me, it doesn't take as long as 30 seconds to start, to eat 20 Mb of RAM and not to display pages faster than IE.
Firefox users, you wouldn't like me to tell you that you should use MSIE because it's better than Firefox, would you ? So, stop telling me I should use Firefox. I'm big enough. I'm a free man. It's my choice :)
