The last few days were marked by increasing obsession with
watching Noah climbing up the
d/l list at PalmGear. I was wondering whether it'll get to
Top 50 monthly before end of April and it did. Makes me
happy
for some reason.
Preparing 0.65 release - a lot of people complained about
performance so I've improved it. It was so easy that I
should have done it in the first release but it's kind of
hard to get the real feel for speed
when you're running
under the emulator. And it didn't help that freaking POSE
has profiling broken so I don't have hard numbers on
speed-up. But it should be much better and it certainly feel
better. I actually wanted to make it 0.70 relase and include
FOLD (should be pretty easy) but I decided that it will be
better to concentrate on Webster for now. Means it's time
for some
loving the perl-style.
This is one of those strange moments: I just wanted to write
a rant about my oh-so-wonderful idea that I had a few years
back but never bothered to implement. The idea was so good
that I couldn't believe that no-one has done it before.
Wouldn't it be cool, I thought, to have a
your-favourite-mpg3-player plugin that shows the lyrics? All
we need is a bit of programming and lyrics data enriched
with
timing info and you can go wild (star-wars like scroll,
anyone?). I was just to lay out this idea in this e-diary
and
here's what I find: an article in linux.com about XMMS
mentions this
plugin. At least it looks like having this idea is somewhat
connected with being Polish.
The same guy is also working on a (YA){mail,news}reader. I
really would like something better that Netscape and neither
Balsa nor Evolution look like they're ready to rock-and-roll
(with different levels of not-readiness). But that's not my
point. I used to have an Amiga (the only computer that I've
enjoyed using but that's not my point neither). My point
is: check those
screenshots. Am I really the only one to think that
Gnome/KDE/X just plainly sucks as far as visual and
usability goes? Compared to both Amiga and Windows. And the
guy who forced X users to do copy/paste by highlithing and
pressing the 3rd mouse button (that I don't have on my
laptop btw. plus I was never able to configure 3-button
mouse to work as a 3 button under XFree - I guess that's how
you find out that you're not nearly as smart as you thought
you were) was a pervert.
Go and see Time code for the reason of it being truly
amazing. I didn't fell in love with the story (I rarely do)
but picture this: screen is divided into 4 parts and there's
a separate story going on in every part. Try to watch 4
movies at the same time - simply mind-blowing. Of course the
stories and people mix so it's more of a one story that you
can watch from different views and angles at the same time.
Only one out of four images can have sound otherwise it
would be incomprehensible so you tend to concentrate on the
one that you can hear. Anyway the point is: if you can pull
such a movie without making it a completely boring,
sleep-inducing crap (think French movies)
you're a genius and that's how I think of Mike Figgis
now. And the cast was good (maybe beautiful would be
a better word, the name of the character that one of the
actresses played in some previous Figgis' movie is listed in
IMDB as "supermodel").
I wish I had more dictionaries for Noah.