wtf?

Since I'm leaving France for a "little trip" to Mexico, I thought I'd sell my current laptop (a sturdy Lenovo X200) to get something more up to date. After a week fighting with TNT's delivery service support morons, I finally got my hands on a brand new X220. Size is the same, weight does not change that much since I wanted a decent battery life, but overall, it's a fucking win.

But.

The engineers at Lenovo thought it would be fun to have a slightly smaller space to cram a HDD in your laptop, and so my good old SSD (Crucial C300, so far so good) did not fit (too big “that's what she said” blah blah). I had to remove a “useless” part of it following this guy's advice, and boot the laptop hoping it'd be happy this way.

... A firmware package download later (wifi driver), the Debian boots up like nothing happened deciphering my home as usual. Er... I wanted to say that I love when software just works, and oh thank the geeks that kindly make it so (you won't never read these lines, but still, thank you guys).

Also, did I mention I got my plane tickets for september, 30th? Did I mention I'm just as anxious as I'm happy about all this? I hope things work out well at my dayjob, and once I get there too. It'll be the second time I'll be living in Oaxaca, but still.

I should find a guide for people relocating to another country, and more precisely "leaving France". There's so much to be done before the end of september, it seems I only add things to my todo list right now. On the "done" front, I'll be without a home at the end of september (which is good news!), and I think I sold almost everything I wanted gone ; now I only need to stash a few things (books, clothes, porn collection, etc.) at my parents' place, or wherever they'd be marginally safe.

Now's the time when I wonder... where I can have my backup-box stored too? It slept at home, gently streaming audio to pulse, or quietly activating at times to rsync with a handful of boxes, but that would be a pain between France and Mexico. That's if I did found a safe place with broadband network to store it too! And I won't travel with 4Tb of data in my pockets. Ideas?

Oh yeah, I should get dressed and go to work. Gotta throw more javascript at that crazy UI thing we're doing for a major french TV group. :)

Advantage: no one's looking at me when I'm singing along LocoRoco's soundtrack.

That's almost a month without an update. Yeah I know... but what can I say, I'm a lazy cow. The thing that may or may not bother you (at least it bothers me), is that I have quite a few “writings” lingering in a folder somewhere. So there may or may not be hope for this place yet. I still have plans to move back to Mexico for a few months more, the easiness of which highly depends on my relation with $work.

We'll see how that part goes, meanwhile I'm still selling a few things I don't plan to use, or haven't been using for a while : I call this "the great cleanup". I'd rather give or sale stuff since I'm always baffled by all the genuinely good things people are trashing in my street from tables, ovens, to LCD screens... I don't get it, but I guess it's a form of gift too.

Deactivated my Facebook account today. Got bored, since it is only a source of noise with little valuable information. It is also redundant with other means of communication with my friends, but really the useless noise's the most annoying thing, I don't have much time to waste at the moment. :)

No, I don't care if you liked another video on Youtube: were it that good, you'd find another way to contact me anyway. I'd also argue that talking around beers (or coffees!) is better than chat windows, no?

So I'm back to France. It's hot, and warm, and the weather's all nice, and the people too. I'm glad to see some friends. The first thing I noticed, is how calm this city seems, really. Barely a noise, less people in the streets or around public places ranting about politics, no one's trying to play you music in bars. No jukeboxes, since we don't have cantinas to start with. The cars here are more efficient I guess, and less noisy, and adapted to their tiny environment. Oh yeah, streets are really fucking small here. More ads, more neons, stupidly high prices, and less mezcal.

So yeah, I miss Mexico. I'm gonna scheme an escape plan soon, first I need to get rid of some things at my place, and hang that hamac somewhere.

I decided I should try to post a few things more geek-oriented on a "tech" blog. However, this was never the real intent of this place (despite some rare apparitions). This is when I remembered that I have had a posterous account for quite some time.

It is finally put to use at http://ephoz.posterous.com. I'll start very modestly with a "stupid ruby tip", and try to write interesting stuff there on ruby, or nodejs, or nosql, and the other varieties of subjects I bizarrely enjoy a lot.

Hope this (will) help (someone).