wtf?

The advantages to being in Mexico are quite many, and I won't bother counting, or comparing to whatever other country you live in. I'm reaaally good where I am now, and sad that I shall return back to France “soon”.

However, one major drawback is that I get an incredible amount of mails from friends (and ex-friends too... wtf go away!) trying to get in touch, and deserving a response. So, if I'm slow responding to your mail or IRC queries, I'm really sorry.

However, I also realized how little mails and phone calls I got from my family since they're now flooding my inbox quasi-daily. I still have a handy macro in mutt that deletes any mail bigger than 1MB, which helps. :)

... but in the end, playing dead with your mother/father is quite a nasty thing to do, or is it?

This is the key to the iPad that nobody has figured out. The iPad does everything that a regular computer user does. Facebook. YouTube. Email. Web browsing. It does all this out of the box.

Hm “regular computer users” by these standards sure look like retards. Sometimes with tremendous success of such vendor lock-downs and net-neutrality failing, I'm a little bit worried about the future of computing. But hey it's all good for the “regular user”, so don't worry and smile.

What's so great about the nuclear threats in Japan, is that apparently, one must choose between two antagonist positions and explain to the internet in great length why it is the best...

The ecologist believes the accidents are another proof that nuclear energy is a mistake, plus they produce so much waste, blah blah blah.

The rationalist with a hidden agenda believes nuclear plants are the only sustainable option, and perfectly safe once you've dismantled the antiques built according to designs from the 70s.

At any rate, our greed for energy would seem to be the root of this problem ; which leaves us two choices: being less greedy of our resources (laugh here), or annihilate a good part of the human population (with some help from the pidjins). But please, whether you're an ecologist (yay for green energy!), or a rationalist (yay for critical thinking), shut the fuck up about it for once. Thank you.

A lot of tools exist to read news. From mail readers, RSS readers, various micro-blogging clients, or IM bots, and what not. However, I noticed that I consume most of my news through the first two of this list, mainly mail readers and RSS readers...

I'm quite happy with mutt as a mail client. Being the one that "suck less" is probably his main quality, and with a good deal of macros and vim to write the occasional answer, I'm good. However, there are no "RSS reader" that would suck less. The most used is probably Google's Reader, which I've been quite happy to use for some time. However, I don't like my data stored in Google's cloud, for every government to peek at... You can call me paranoid. Although the truth is I'm also quite annoyed by their ugly interface (and no, I don't want another custom CSS through a browser extension, thank you).

I could use newsbeuter, which is said to be the "mutt of newsreaders", and furthermore sync it with Google's product. This would allow me to read the shit out of my news in a terminal or in a browser. I like the idea... but not so much Google's Reader for the reasons mentioned earlier. Luckily, newsbeuter is also able to sync with a tool called TinyTinyRSS.

So my question currently is wether I should install another PHP application (PHP is the keyword) on an server, or leap from idea to code, and start writing this modular news aggregator that would directly feed news to a single store with different consumers: from a web interface to a bunch of IMAP folders to read news with mutt... Or should I just try to setup NewsBlur?

Damn... so many questions, so little time... and meanwhile hacker-news is still bubbling with more things to read.

Now I sound like I have AD/HD, but I'm just brainstorming. Thank you for your brain-time too,

Apple's public image is really starting to suck out there on the Internetz... Sadly, they just reek of greed now.

Oaxaca, Oaxaca has landed. It's a small (incomplete) jekyll powered blog, where I'll post updates and pictures mostly for friends and family. If you're into that, check it out. It's in french since my parents, and most of my relatives, do not read Shakespeare's mother tongue quite as well as you (probably) do.

Also, I should mention that I am officially in love with jekyll's simplicity. :)

It's been 6 days since I took off from France... What can I say about Mexico? It's great. In some ways it is like I thought it would be, with a good deal of surprises, and discoveries too. I don't like very much what I have seen of Mexico City, although I did not spend an awful lot of time there, and will be staying around Oaxaca a lot more... Oaxaca's definitely my cup of tea. My spanish's still bad but improving. I've already tasted a few types of mezcals from here and there, learned that the tourist season is expected soon, and and whole lot of other stuff I don't want to explain for lack of time or motivation to write everything down here. :)

When I'm less lazy I'll post a bunch of photos on a jekyll log for those who want them. I'll keep you posted on that, don't worry.

I guess it's already "tomorrow" in Paris, so I'll let you to your pillows. Hopefully we'll meet again in may. ;)