This post is for a great friend of mine. I know this webpage is not really “important” or indexed but it worths.
I just want to advertise his first (i hope the first of a long long sequence) disc.
It’s really particular. The first time i heard it i didn’t fully understood it, i needed 2-3 times to appreciate its details and realize how original it was.
Ok stop talking. Due to some shitty logistic issues (bastard company!!!!) it’s really difficult (probably impossible) to hold the real cd in your hand, but you can find and buy it on the web, even on iTunes.
As usual, as every year, it has been full of news, good or bad.
Once i want to be just optimist, despite everything shitty happened this year, in the world, in Italy, some job issues, some personal issues, with three lovely persons left us to reach the heaven.
Despite all, we’re still here, enjoying all the smallest things we’re lucky to have.
Despite all we’re not alone, we all have a person close to us ready to give a smile everyday. Most of time is enough, it’s a reason to go ahead.
Things may go worst, but who cares, we’ll be there to fight.
Goodbye 2007, 2008 is here. it will not find us unready.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a great mail, news and rss application which lacks the calendar support.
The alternative may be using one Google Calendar service, but if you want everything integrated it’s disappointing.
There is a project, Mozilla Calendar which has two branches: Sunbird and Lighting, one is a standalone application (useless for me!!), the other is a nice Thunderbird extension.
The bad part is that Mozilla provide Windows, Linux and Mac builds only for i686 systems. So amd64 and newest Intel users (x86_64) cannot use it.
Or better they must use Thunderbird 32 bits binary + Lighting extension build by Mozilla.
So bad.
I’m a Gentoo user, whole system is 64bit and i refuse to have 32bit binaries.
So as Gentoo does not provide an ebuild i compiled it manually:
1) download sources
2) unpack them: tar xjf lightning-sunbird-0.7-source.tar.bz2
3) cd mozilla
4) ./configure –with-system-nspr –with-system-nss –enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 –enable-xft –disable-freetype2 –enable-application=mail –enable-extensions=default,lightning
5) make
you will find Thunderbird binary in the ./dist/bin dir, while our Lighting release is in dist/xpi-stage.
Ehi lots of time i didn’t write…
i had some time today, so i did some activity on the website.
Firstly i added some statistics to Piazza del Popolo, the blog (in italian) where i share some toughts and funny things with my friends.
Secondly i added a second RSS feed parser to the homepage so it’s fast to monitor both blogs.
In the meanwhile i upgraded some php internal stuff and slightly change the javascript script to let the rss post window desappear on second click.
Of course i kept the XHTML 1.1 validation.
What else…waiting for the upcoming wordpress 2.3 release and i will update both blogs.
