Whoo hoo!
When I turned on my desktop computer this morning the Gmail tally in my taskbar had some trouble logging in. Worried that I had lost my internet connectivity (not that unusual if you’re a Blixtvik customer) I fired up Firefox and logged into Gmail. It worked. Then I noticed the Older version link at the top right hand corner and realized that Gmail version 2.0 had arrived!
It’s not just faster. Or the undo messages in a paler shade of yellow. The URLs are finally meaningful. For example:
https://mail.google.com/mail/#all
Show you All Mail, while…
https://mail.google.com/mail/#drafts/10d2c8f89c01a8fe
…is a specific mail, in this case a draft.
During the weekend I decided to hack together my own last.fm radio player in Python. I had found the My Playlist station pretty useless after being treated to the same three songs over and over again, and set out to code a player that would autoskip any songs I’ve already listened to once during a “session”.
So I combed the web and the official developer forum for useful information and even ended up digging into the official desktop client source code to find the answers to my questions. All information needed to implement a client (bar already officially documented components) have now been compiled into one spec-like entry in my last.fm journal.
I have been playing around with the Amazon Web Services and S3 in particular over the last couple of days. It’s something I have planned to do for a long time now but never have come around till now. But I got a kick in the but to wake up and smell the Amazon Kool-Aid (ok, too many mixed metaphors and pop-cultural references) when I heard Jeff Barr’s presentation “Web Services: Fuelling Innovation and Entrepreneurship” from d.Construct 2006 about AWS, especially how easy it is to get started and play around with the services. One of the tools he mentioned, S3 Firefox Organizer, a Firefox add-on, had me up and running in matter of minutes.
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To quote Kenneth Himschoot:
Our W3C, which art on the net:
Hallowed be thy markup.
Thy workingdrafts come.
Thy Specs be done in Mozilla as they are in Opera.
Give us this day our daily XHTLM and forgive us our hacks and workarounds, as we forgive all tablebased designers.
And lead us not to invalid code but deliver us from IE5.
Amen.
November 26, 2006 – 12:51
I haven’t posted anything here in a while, so I composed this somewhat dadaistic poem below from the subject lines of the spam in my inbox:
Wanna check it out?
The so systemic,
Was a revision
On deficit;
Got her broown with highhard
Do accordance;
The is stolen
His highlight;
Time is now,
Spout means no mess pouring!
Did you know that Antarctica has its own top-level domain, .aq ?
Those who are interested, understand swedish and might be tracking this blog instead of my swedish one: I’ve begun, starting this week, to republish my articles about filmmaking that were online between 1996 and 1998 on my previous site IndiPage.