Something new has happened lately. I have become a huge Nine Inch Nails fan. I always listened to them and thought it was ok. Now I find myself listening to the music all of the time and all of it seems to stay bouncing around inside of my head.
It all started when I went down to Yokohama a few weeks back. I saw a CD store and figured I should pick up a new CD. The only thing that looked good was a new Nine Inch Nails release "Year Zero". I picked it up and forgot about it for about a day, then finally listened to it. I thought, this is OK, a few songs are good. A few days passed and I listened to it again. This time I was blown away, the music really sank in and I was able to get it all.
Next thing I know I went to their website and found that they were having a concert in Tokyo. I got tickets to the concert and it was amazing. I never thougt of them as a rock band, but Trent came out with his Epiphone Les Paul and created some of the heaviest sounding guitar riffs I have ever heard.
I just bought a new CD/DVD (WITH_TEETH):
Today I received a mail on the enlightenment file list and I was suprised to see a little icon displayed in the mail header. As you may know, I have working on mail filtering servers before, so I am very familiar with how e-mail works and the various headers.
I was supprised to discover the X-Face header. It seems to be a pretty neat idea but its rather limited, See below. Anyway, I was just wondering what happens if I try to clear up the image a bit. I applied a 5.0 px gaussian blut and I got what looks like ablurred photograph.
Now, if everyone placed their own faces in their emails using this technique I might be inclined to write a patch for my mail client, Sylpheed, to automatically apply the blur. The only problem is that this is not very popular at all.
Well I moved to Japan. I actually moved in December 2006. So I havent updated this blog in a while. There is a new picture up at the top. But I need to get a new one.
A few months ago I found this firefox plugin called StumbleUpon. It allows me to randomly surf the internet by just clicking a button. The feature I like is that I can collect my bookmarks and keep them available on a website. Below is my stumbleupon page.
http://shorne.stumbleupon.com/
I wrote a language / Locale configuration dialog. Its just a simple idea right now but it does the basics. Right now it only supports la_CN.enc@mod format. See below for a screener:
