20091231

COlivri is back online after a 12 months hibernation. Upgrading Flup fixed the stability issue with my fairly old server and it just took a little bit of tweaking to get the ISBN scrapper to work again as expected.

Why now you may ask? Adrien saw the light and wants to build a COlivri like community for coaches. I suggested the name coACHlivri and ... felt like getting my hands in some code again :D He/they can use the group functionality for a trial run and assess the relevance of deploying COlivri or another similar platform on the dedicated domain.

I have started talking with Raphael about turning it into an open source standalone easily deployable solution for whoever to use on their own domain. I find Fossil inspiring but I'd rather stick to Python :D

I decided not to renew the IEforge domain name, which I slightly regret because it is now used by others who had nothing to do with the Inline Search / IEforge adventure and debacle.

6 months ago my laptop was stolen. I thought it was a great opportunity to acquire a Mac at long last. I treated myself to a 13" MacBook Pro which did a very good job at keeping me happy till I wanted to get back into programming again. There is so much to re-learn, re-install and re-tweak. I will try not to resists the temptation to just go Fusion > Ubuntu :D

I have an itch to do something with BoardKulture again, inspired by Alltop and the many daily surf news one can get nowadays (Aquabumps, Saltmotion, ...) just for fun ;)

Last but not least I acquired a water housing for the G10. Not a sport camera I know but should be fun all the same.

20091223

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

-– Frederick Koenig, first read here

Over 12 months without a post! Twitter and Facebook probably got the best of me (or the worst :D). The quotation above triggered it all.

20081201

COlivri is getting some media attention (read here).