Ten thousand

10.000 last.fm listenings! I registered on the 11th January 2009, since then it remembers my tracks, and I subscribed on the 1st May 2009, which is the day of work in Hungary and a perfect occasion to celebrate. In this period could I gather 10.000 listenings, which is 31 tracks a day. Depending on the viewpoint the milestone was Simple Plan – I’d do anything or Drumsound & Simon “Bassline” Smith – Get Through. About my genres:

udi86 genres

The punk label in the middle is really bold :D . But you can also see a tiny drum and bass too. The most listened artist list is altered due to that I lost some of my DVDs. I’m an album listener, which means I listen to a whole album, than comes the next. Since I listen to last.fm for a year the artists whom I don’t own an album have 30 listens too, and some previously favourite artists have also stucked on the 30 track level, and so they’re missing from the top20 list:

udi86 artists

For example there’s no Linkin Park, P.O.D., Papa Roach or NOFX. But Rise Against is really strong on the top, which is my new favourite and Kultur Shock is also there, because I like the wild balkan beats. The artist written with japanese characters is Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, after them comes Flatliners who also play ska and on the 5th place comes Alvin és a Mókusok (Alvin and the Chipmunks) a Hungarian punk band.

Improvements of a self-drawing

I need it, ’cause it’s cool. I need it, ’cause people say I’m creative and good with my hands. I need it, ’cause while I draw it I do nothing else. And at last I need a new one. I need a new one because the old one was drawn in Macromedia Flash, and while I took care of the source file I was lazy to actually find it. I only touch commercial (now Adobe) stuff when I have to anyway. So I started to redraw myself in Inkscape. Here it is:

Udi self-drawing compare

Like oil and water. 4 years compressed into some lines and curves. I’m not quite satisfied with that either, it’s too thin and the shoes are lame compared to the other parts. But I thought I share it as a therapy method :) .

XHTML 2 discontinued

The W3C announced that it will drop XHTML 2 in favor of HTML 5. It’s a sad thing because the XML well-formedness could have spared a lot of effort and processing power on different platforms. It easier to write an XML parser, than an SGML parser and since Leonardo Da Vinci we all know that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication so I feel XHTML more symphatic. But we shouldn’t fear, the guys previously working on XHTML2 will boost the finishing of HTML5, and after it is finished, we will have an XHTML5 :) .

Projects for the summer

The university is over, and I still have 2 months left from the summer. I’ll spend the time in front of my computer working on the following projects:

  • move my site to the new 150 gigs storage (which sucks, because I have to migrate from Drupal to another CMS, maybe WordPress)
  • preparing the new storage to the collaboration effort of the new OpenArena website
  • migrate the Young Wind Ensemble of Tapolca site to Drupal
  • LilyPond Hungarian translation project
  • Hungarian Battle for Wesnoth site development
  • (planned) haXe Hungarian translation

That’s all. Every project is open source and a lot of fun :) .

Drupalisation

This word doesn’t exist, but my site eventually went through this process. Instead of the old shattered and torn code the PHP magician Drupal mixes the soup which my site is. I’ve got all my old content here but this is the first time that my page is bilingual. If you want to read more about the past of the page, and the future I have in mind, please read about that in my blog.