This is the archive for April 2006. Recent posts can be found at the main blog page.

Paradise Now

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 ★ 00:07 ★ Category Films ★ Permanent url

Dutch-Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad tells a very intruiging story of two friends recruited for a suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv. Two people, no future to live for, no hope at all. Complete silence in the cinema after the ending credits faded away.

Photo courtesy of Reel Movie Critic

Paradise Now was awarded several prizes from various film festivals all over the world.

Les poupées russes

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 ★ 23:52 ★ Category Films ★ Permanent url

Les poupées russes (there’s an official site too) is the sequel to L’Auberge Espagnole, in which some students in Spain were depicted in a humorous (sometimes even hilarious) way.

Image from CinéLibre

Les poupées russes is about a reunion (a couple of years later). Some of the former students have changed, others clearly haven’t. Once again, several hilarious scenes. A good laugh, although this genre is not really my favourite.

GNOME Mines, first try

Wednesday, April 19, 2006 ★ 19:55 ★ Categories Gnome, Misc ★ Permanent url

Tijmen is a loser.

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Happy Easter!

Sunday, April 16, 2006 ★ 12:22 ★ Category Misc ★ Permanent url

Happy easter

Standardizing AJAX XMLHttpRequest

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 ★ 10:11 ★ Category Programming ★ Permanent url

From the W3C weekly news letter:

The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of “The XMLHttpRequest Object.” The draft documents features of the XMLHttpRequest object, the core component of AJAX. The interface allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

For more information, see these sites:

GNOME Goals rock!

Monday, April 10, 2006 ★ 22:35 ★ Categories Gnome, Programming ★ Permanent url

Yesterday Michiel and I made a plan: fix 3 GNOME modules each day in order to complete a GNOME Goal that makes all modules use the file po/LINGUAS instead of embedding all language codes into configure.ac or configure.in directly.

Michiel patched bug-buddy, eog and gdm2 shortly after I had done the same for Evince, Sound Juicer and Totem: