Pierre-Nick is dynamik » Dynamik http://www.pierre-nick.com Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:10:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 To-Do’s http://www.pierre-nick.com/2009/02/18/to-dos/ http://www.pierre-nick.com/2009/02/18/to-dos/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:05:49 +0000 Pierre Nick http://www.pierre-nick.com/?p=133
  • Steer away from Facebook
    I’ve been wanting to do that for a while. This just seems to push me faster towards the exit. I won’t shut myself of it just yet though: my existing content is theirs forever anyway, right? Facebook remains fun for some things.
  • Use Twitter and Flickr more
    I prefer to use Twitter and Flickr as a result of #1. Twitter brings me closer to people similar to me: those liking the tech, the geek, the awesome. Flickr allows me to use my own copyrights, is so clean and full of beautiful. They both feel so fresh to my mind, a strange and strong feeling of weightlessness. I’m also finally learning to use Twitter properly and up to what it can do.
  • Change my blog theme
    And well just about everything about it. Make it lighter: I’m micro-blogging way more these days, unfitting for how this blog currently is. Maybe split it in two blogs: the randomness vs the geek + those essays about geeky stuff I’m glad i’ve written.
  • Join things, comities, groups, contribute to a project … but outside of school
    To prepare myself for what is now the scare of my life: post-university. I don’t want to ever say “the best years of my life are behind me”. This makes me think a lot. I need to keep the awesome going on forever, but most probably in different ways. And i know i’m not the only one.
  • Finish coding the telemetry system of my baby
    This was started out as my senior project and I sometimes wish this could be my full time job. We need an awesome energy management system.

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    Other random to-do’s:

    • Reinstall Mac OS X. Had it for 1 1/2 years. I feel dirty.
    • Find a use for the computers I have laying around, set up servers because there are never enough servers.
    • Study for my midterms..
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    Oh Hai.

    I’ve got so many drafts on WordPress, it’s kind of crazy. One day I’ll do a mega blog post with all of those incomplete bits all mixed up together randomly. That should be interesting. So basically, for all this time, I’ve been trying to write stuff on here, but never finished anything. I’ll come up with something, and prevail, for ever, and ever, and ever.

    But eh! There’s a photoblog tab on here now! How did that happen! 
    Since everyone I know has one (no, I don’t know anybody else), it was time I posted those photos I felt were really nice – for a reason or another.

    - Pierre Nick

    ]]>     http://www.pierre-nick.com/2008/05/26/horrors/feed/ 0     Facebook status fed to my veins! http://www.pierre-nick.com/2007/07/13/facebook-status-fed-to-my-veins/ http://www.pierre-nick.com/2007/07/13/facebook-status-fed-to-my-veins/#comments Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:05:14 +0000 Pierre Nick http://www.pierre-nick.com/2007/07/13/facebook-status-fed-to-my-veins/ If you haven’t noticed yet, I just put online the script I created to make a nice banner image for my blog from my Facebook status, making Pierre-Nick truly dynamik. In 2 words, it uses SimplePie to fetch the RSS feed of my own status, grabs the latest one and creates an image (with ImageMagick) if not already created, based on date (a kind of simple way to cache).

    The font I use is Elements from the free fonts website Urbanfonts. There are probably a few bugs.. If you see any, do tell!

    Update: there is an uncaught exception causing fatal errors once in a blue moon (goes away when you reload) (update 2: it does it when the feed is unreachable: Facebook under maintenance, etc). Sucks. I need to put in a nice try and catch sometime ;)

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