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. ;-)

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.

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.

I argued with a friend this morning about the citeelement in HTML. I thought <cite> 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 <cite>Harry S. Truman</cite> said,
<q lang="en-us">The buck stops here.</q>

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

That’s quite confusing, isn’t it? <cite>, <q> and <blockquote cite=""> are really different, but are used for the same thing: quotes.

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.

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.

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

Relative links (<link rel="" />) 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 <link>’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 <link>’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!

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?

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!