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The Pod people

I'm all hip, young & trendy again, cause I bought myself an iPod. The 2GB black Nano is a worthy replacement for the 512MB Creative Muvo I bought 2 years ago. As for iTunes, GTKPod on Linux seems a good alternative.

Carved pumpkins

This must be one of the first topics I ever blogged about (I started blogging around 2001, so this exists already a while), but somehow the article got lost during a transition from PHPNuke to PostNuke, I guess. Villafanestudios.com is an impressive site with examples of beautifully carved out pumpkins, for all your Halloween decorations.

Firefox 2

Firefox 2 has hit the streets. Download it from getfirefox.com. You can't yet upgrade Firefox through the Help > Check for upgrades dialog, but that will be solved soon : next week, 1.5 users will get an update to 1.5.0.8, which will offer a choice of upgrading to 2.0. In the meantime, here are some interesting Firefox 2 tweaking tips.

Videodinges

Zo'n goeie acht maand na het trouwfeest hebben we een mooie verrassing gekregen : twee dvd's met de videoreportages van de mis, recepties en het avondfeest. Wat een leuke herinnering ! Een dikke dankuwel en proficiat aan Jan & Johan voor hun noeste arbeid. Respect !

iPod killers

I'm looking around for a mp3 player with some more space; and by looking around, one cannot ignore the Apple iPod. I still wonder why iPods have so many success : the feature/price ratio of them is way lower than its competitors. I only can attribute the success to the sweet design (though I find the new Nano with its square corners plain ugly) and the combination with iTunes.


Mp3newsire.net features an early Xmas article with a list of the iPod killers; though I cannot really see anything the would threaten the iPod (except maybe the Zune or the Creative Zen Neeon 2).

Vim for Perl developers

Even more Vim goodies : Leonid Mamchenkov posted some clear and simple instructions about Perl programming with Vim. Most of it covers the scripts for Perl on vim.org, but it listed some nice vim settings I never knew about (eg the listchars option for vertical indentation).


Only thing I miss from a modern IDE (eg Eclipse with the EPIC plugin) is the option of showing command definitions (foreach, confess, split, ...) with a function key. You can summon Perldoc from Vim, but that does not cover function and statement syntax. Can someone provide any clues ?

Lego ice cubes

What's more geekier than this Lego ice cube tray ?
There's only one drawback I see, and that is that you can't stack the cubes : there's no bottom mold, so the bottom is flat.