exomel

A final post?

Remi — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:34:35 +0000

Well well well… I just launched Effair and I’m writing my last post on exomel.

So, well, thank you for reading my weblog.

And for you, french (or québecois) readers, I strongly suggest you to go to http://fr.exomel.com. ;-)

Update

Remi — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:02:42 +0000

Well, you may have noticed that I don’t post here very often these days; it’s because I’m working on a new web project, meaning that I will have not have the same time to post on this weblog as before.

After almost 17 months of blogging here, I’m getting tired of writing in englis… yeah, really.

You should know more about it in a week or less.

Writeboard

Remi — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:50:46 +0000

Today, 37signals lauched their new web-based application, Writeboard.

It allows you to share a text-based document (the same as Backpack’s) with other friends/colleagues. The main difference between Writeboard and Backpack is, according to me, the ability to compare different versions of the document.

I would like to suggest an alternative name for this software: Semiwiki, or a controlled wiki.

Tags: writeboard, 37signals, backpack

The cite element

Remi — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:57:28 +0000

I argued with a friend this morning about the citeelement in HTML. I thought could only be placed at the end of a blockquote element to indicate the source of the quote. And she thought it was for define citations in a paragraph while I thought that the q element was for them. But we were both wrong.

As it’s said in the W3C HTML 4.01 Specification, CITE contains a citation or a reference to other sources.. Well, the example is more explicit:

As Harry S. Truman said,
The buck stops here.

The cite element is mostly used to define who said something.

That’s quite confusing, isn’t it? , and

are really different, but are used for the same thing: quotes.

Tags: HTML, cite

Multi-Column Mania

Remi — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:29:59 +0000

A List Apart (which also offers great t-shirts) has two great articles about two different things related to multi-columness: one about multi-column lists by Paul Novitski and another one about the “experimental” multi-column CSS3 module by Cédric Savaresse. Worth a reading.

Tags: CSS, design

My laptop

Remi — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:07:06 +0000

I ordered my laptop yesterday evening at Dell.ca.

Dell Inspiron 6000d: Intel® Pentium M 740 (1.73GHz/2Mb cache/533MHz bus); 15.4 inch WSXGA+ LCD Panel; 1Go DDR2 SDRAM 2 Dimms; 128Mo ATI’s Mobility® Radeon™ x300; 80Gb Hard Drive; 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer write capability

Can’t wait to receive it.

Tags: laptop, dell

Lost. Addicted.

Remi — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:06:37 +0000

In the same topic as Jeff Croft’s one, I have to admit that I am addicted to Lost. I watched the first season in french at bought by Radio-Canada and loved it immediately.

Now, I’m watching the second season on fridays — I know it’s on Wednesday — since I don’t have ABC here; but it’s more, more interesting in english than in french.

Anyway, I’m addicted. Spoiler just there -› Can’t wait to see wednesday’s episode to see who’s that Desmon living under the island.

Lost in Wikipedia
Informations section about Lost in Francophone Wikipedia — especially great stuff about the numbers
Lost on Wikiquote
The “numbers” on Google

Tags: lost, tv

Relative Links plugin

Remi — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:49:55 +0000

Relative links () are an important accessibility feature each website should have. A lot of websites got their data structured like a directory, like WordPress powered sites, and users should always have the opportunity to navigate in this structure without the help of the navigating system provided by the site (eg. XHTML+CSS navigation menu).

So I’m finally releasing my plugin for WordPress called “Relative Links“.

As it’s written in the work page:

This plugin places relative ’s in each page header, such as rel="next" and rel="up", which allows some browsers to take advantage of this feature, by
providing sequential and structured navigation for a website to the user.

So, basically, what it does is: it puts relative ’s tags in each page header. It adds:

Top link based on weblog’s name and URI
Up link based on requested URI’s structure
Next, Previous, First and Last links based on the selected post/day/month/year.

The plugin is still in beta state, so it’s normal if you find bugs in it. Reading the “Notes” part included in the file before using it would be a good idea.

The plugin is here: Relative Links.

Enjoy!

Tags: wordpress, plugin, relative+links

On laptops

Remi — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:08:44 +0000

I’m looking for a laptop. The two best choices I’ve got yet are:

PC: Intel Pentium M 740 FSB 533 ~~1.73~~ 1.8Ghz; 80GB Hard drive; 1024MB RAM; Mobility™ Radeon X600 128MB; DVD/CD burner combo; Price: $2,065.30 CDN + tax

Mac: 12′ inch Powerbook G4 1.5Ghz; SuperDrive (DVD/CD burner); NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64MB DDR); 512MB RAM; 80GB Hard drive; Price: $1,899.00 CND + tax (student price)

The only thing that keep me from buying the mac is that Apple are supposed to change their PowerPC cpus to Intel’s ones. Plus, my iriver H10 isn’t mac-compatible… but did I mention that if I buy a Powerbook, I get a free iPod mini?

What do you think? Would buying a Mac at this time be a good idea?

Tags: apple, pc, laptop, powerbook

The big “M” is back

Remi — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:59:27 +0000

Back in the old 2002 web, my first experience in a web community was with VirtualPlastic. Modzine (the big “M”) , Winmod, Skinnables, Tek, etc.

But when I kinda left the community to become more active in the blogosphere and the web design community, Matthew Malensek (known as pogrelz) had shut down Modzine for weeks I think.

I kept posting on Winmodz forums for few months after that, and I completly left it when pogz lost the database that contained all the forum data since its beginning, on May 2003.

But this morning, when I came to my friend Joël’s blog, akikaze, and I saw that his latest post was titled “the Big M“, I thought “omg“; Finally, we’re gonna see that nice “M” again! YAY!

Say hello to Modspots!

Tags: windmodz, modzine, modspots, customization