Two Updated Plugins For WordPress [en]

WordPress users, this is for you! Two useful plugins for coComment have been updated:

  • coComment Enhancer by David has gone up to version 1.2.3b, with bug fixes as well as French and German translations.
    This plugin will integrate coComment into your blog. This means that it will ensure that coComment gets accurate data (post name, blog name, post url, etc.) independantly of the way you set up your template.

    It is definitely the easiest way to make your blog friendly for coComment if you’re using WordPress, and it ensures that coComment gets the right data even if you change your template.
  • Show coComments by Pablo has now been bumped up to 0.2 stable release after some bugfixes.
    This sidebar widget allows you to easily display your comments or conversations on your WordPress blog. It also works as a normal plugin if you don’t have a widget-enabled theme.

Thanks a bunch to David and Pablo for taking our feedback into account and updating their plugins. If you don’t use WordPress, all is not lost: check out our Integration page for instructions about integrating coComment into your blog (the little imps tell me it might very well be updated soon, so keep an eye on it). To display your latest comments on your blog, use a blog box which you can customize to your liking.

technorati tags:, , , , , , , ,

Initially posted on the coComment blog.

Difficultés à comprendre le fisc vaudois? [fr]

[en] This is part of a printout from my tax declaration, or whatever you call that in English.

Déclaration d'impôts

Maintenant, vous savez pourquoi!

Surprise Meet-Up Last Night [en]

[fr] Une rencontre totalement imprévue avec un pote d'IRC qui était à Lausanne pour la semaine. Je l'ai appris par hasard la veille de son départ -- du coup, on est allés faire un tour en ville!

So, last night, before the sad news hit me, I was just hanging out online while digging through the bottom of my GTD inbox when I was drawn into #swhack by a highlight. (If you don’t live on IRC, you probably don’t understand what I’m talking about — don’t fret.) Usually, highlights in #swhack mean the bots are getting chatty, but anyway, I peeked in. An irrelevant mention of Bugs Bunny (now you can guess what I highlight on) was all it was, but as the channel seemed alive for once, I stayed to exchange a few words with those who were there.

The conversation topic quickly drifted to Switzerland, and for some reason I didn’t quite grasp straight away, people were suddenly very interested in the fact that I was in Switzerland, and, more than that, in Lausanne.

A few lines later the penny dropped, and I realised that crschmidt was chatting with me through the free wifi provided by my hometown! He had been here all week for the FOSS4G conference. He works for MetaCarta, who were sending him there.

Half an hour and a park name confusion (my mistake) later, we were meeting up in Parc Montbenon. We went out for a drink, a stroll in the Roman ruins and a short photo session by the lake. We talked about History classes in Switzerland and the States, looked at satellite maps of Lausanne (blurry) and Geneva (I got to see the building the coComment offices are in!), and all sorts of other things that add up to enjoyable conversation without having to be blog material.

Before I knew it we had chatted away until past 1am and my tiredness reminded me that I had planned to go to bed early. But nevermind! It was worth it, nice to be able to meet Chris before he left this morning. Hope you had a safe trip home!

Chris and Steph in Vidy
Proof of meet-up!

VaudTax et mon MacBook [fr]

[en] Seems the official tax program around here doesn't work on Intel processors. *Firing up winbox...*

Dites, j’ai la très sale impression que VaudTax 2005 ne tourne pas sur processeur Intel. En tous cas, je l’ai installé sur mon MacBook et il plante en silence lorsque je le lance. J’ai installé la mise à jour, et VaudTax 2004, lui, semble accepter de démarrer.

(Oui, je suis au courant que c’est pas très tôt pour faire ses impôts, merci de ne pas trop remuer le couteau…)

Donc, a priori, j’abandonne et j’installe tout ça sur ma machine Windows (quitte à rentrer à nouveau toutes les informations qui auraient été normalement reportées des années précédentes). A moins que quelqu’un ait des informations contraires, en quel cas j’essaie encore un peu secouer la bête?

Rob Levin (lilo) of Freenode Just Died [en]

[fr] Rob Levin, fondateur du réseau IRC freenode (plus connu sous son pseudo lilo) est mort des suites d'un accident de la route.

I’ve just received news of Rob Levin’s death (lilo on freenode) when logging on after coming back home from a surprise evening I’ll tell you about later, given the circumstances. Needless to say I’m pretty shaken.

I’d never actually met Rob, of course. But I remember many conversations with him on freenode — about nickname issues, about freenode and the underlying concept of community it was built on, about leaving New Orleans before Katrina arrived. He was somebody I always enjoyed chatting with, and I was always amazed at how he would take time for small issues like my nickname problems. He struck me as nice, patient and understanding for the little I knew him.

As founder of freenode, he was of course an important person to me. Freenode is a place which lies at the center of my online social life. But more than that to me, he was also simply a person I chatted with every now and again and really appreciated. I’m going to miss him.

I’m doing something I usually tell people not to do: publish stuff when emotions are fresh. My excuses therefore, if I sound a bit rambling or whatever — but there’s just no way I can just head for bed right now as I was planning to do when I got home. Hopefully writing this here will help me accept what has happened and feel a little less sick.

Bye, lilo. My thoughts are with your family and friends. You will be very much missed.

Related:

–

–

  • and
  • (with IRC transcript)
  • (transcript)
  • click on the tags below for more and latest news

Pourquoi faire simple… [fr]

[en] Just an administrative letter which takes a way too convoluted route to explain something which is actually pretty simple. I suppose they needed to make the letter long enough for it to be worth using a whole sheet of paper.

…quand on peut faire compliqué.

Tout d’abord, tentez de comprendre l’explication donnée dans la lettre ci-dessous (oui je sais, ça date un peu):

Lettre M-CUMULUS

*Cliquez dessus si vous voulez la voir en plus grand.*

Maintenant, voici la traduction, en une phrase: “Vous n’accumulez des points CUMULUS que sur les montants que vous avez *vraiment* payés.” Bon, j’en rajoute une deuxième: “Vous n’accumulez pas de points CUMULUS sur les achats que vous avez payés avec des points CUMULUS.”

Bon, je m’la coince. Bonne nuit!

Eh ben mince, alors! [fr]

[en] Too bad. Digital cable TV here does not allow me to do what I do with normal cable TV: listen to movies and TV series in English instead of the dubbed French versions. Bye-bye digital TV. Don't want you if that means I have to watch CSI in French.

Je viens d’appeler Cablecom au sujet de la TV numérique par câble. (Oui, je sais, cet après-midi vous pouvez suivre mes faits et gestes en lisant mon blog.)

Eh bien, la sentence tombe lors de la réponse à ma première question: pas de bicanal!

Excusez-moi, mais c’est vraiment nul. Je garde mon téléréseau normal, à ce prix-là, et je continue (merci beaucoup) à pouvoir regarder mes séries préférées en anglais sur trois chaînes.

Quant aux autres questions (quelle capacité de stockage pour l’enregistrement d’émissions, et y a-t-il possibilité d’exporter les données enregistrées), je ne les ai même pas posées.

Déçue, là, franchement.

Où sont les correcteurs? [fr]

[en] Typo. And an article on why it's stupid to try and solve the "dog bite" problems by outlawing certain breeds and making dogs wear muzzles in parks.

Réponse: y sont partis! C’est le correcteur orthographique de MS Word qui fait le boulot, maintenant.

Lausanne-Cités 13-14.09.2006

A part ça, à lire dans le même canard, un article tout à fait pertinent sur la problématique des ‘chiens dangereux’.

Blog Design: Big Footers [en]

[fr] Je commence à voir l'intérêt des immenses pieds de pages que l'on voit sur certains blogs, et qui servent en fait de sidebar secondaire. Je me demande s'il existe une modification du thème K2 qui offre ça (widgets à la clé, bien sûr).

Just a note to say I’m starting to see the interest of big footers with “secondary content” stuffed into them. Look at this slightly extreme example.

Are there any K2 mods around with big bad-ass widgetised footers?

Vidéo: utilité des blogs en entreprise [fr]

[en] Subtitled interview (in French) of Joanne Colan talking about her role at Rocketboom and the relevance of blogging in a business context.

J’ambitionnais de me coucher avant minuit, mais Kevin m’a attrapée pour me dire de regarder l’émission Rocketboom d’aujourd’hui. Eh oui, chers amis francophones, c’est pour vous aujourd’hui: Joanne Colan explique, dans un français parfait auquel s’ajoute un joli accent britannique, en quoi consiste son travail pour Rocketboom et surtout, elle donne un exemple de la pertinence de la démarche “blog” dans une entreprise. Je vous laisse écouter, je ramasse le chat, et je file me mettre sous mon duvet.