Drank some Birlou, listened to Da Babylonianz, didn't break any of my bones. Dope.

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Since it also records videos it will allow me to shoot a new Beat Battle soon (remember?), with better image quality... Cool, huh?

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So the other day I had an hour to waste, I decided to learn how to use MooTools classes and, as the best way to learn something is to play with it, I played with it.

About 30 minutes after, I had something  running. Dirty and buggy but still, looking cool. It took me an extra 30 minutes to clean that up, make sure it was working on most browsers, add the Google Analytics tracker, push it online and add it to the projects page...

You probably guessed it already, I'm talking about the Scroll Clock. Well this hour might be the least wasted one of my life. Think I'm radical? Read on!

Results

After tweeting about it twice (once to someone who's interested in netart, and once to the MooTools team) things went big. I don't know exactly how this happened but it (the Scroll Clock page) got love from Gizmodo, swissmiss, QBN, Ajaxian, Neatorama and many more. Wow.

A few days after the tsunami, here's what my Analytics page looks like. My daily average of 600 page views has seriously been put to shame, with a climax on the 19th of November: 313,000+.

Side effects

This is probably the funniest part, not only did I worry for the server the site is hosted on, but a few things happened...

I got 3 job offers ; many friend requests on Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo and so on ; received a donation ; was contacted by a Google guy to add the project to chromeexperiments.com, which I did ; and of course had to bother my friends and colleagues about my new web-fame...

Conclusion

The short one: don't spit on Twitter, it might make you a star. Just joking, keep spitting on it.

The long one: the simplest and shortest project of mine is the one which received the most visitors and love, ironic right? What does that mean? Should I stop working on full-fledged AIR apps?

Prove me wrong!

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Boks is running for Best RIA of 2009 on InsideRIA, please vote for it!

The top apps will be presented at Adobe MAX 2009... Needless to say I'd be delighted to be a part of it. Of course this is going to be hard, as the competitors are tough ones but hey, let's try!

Update: I've updated the app with a shameless call-to-action button. Damn, I'm weak.

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Who are you? What are you doing here? Looking for something? Found it?

I set up a quick survey with questions mainly about what you want. So if you're kind enough: fill it! It might not be visible in your feed reader ; if so: jump over to the site!

Thanks, buddy.

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My 3 week trip with the trans-siberian and trans-mongolian is now over. I've seen many places, done many things and met a lot of people... But I'm not good at story-telling so I'll let these pictures talk for me.

Call me lazy.

That was cool.

Want to see more of it?

By the way

The hacking has now been fixed and everything should be exactly as it was. Also, I've updated Boks' javascript files (thanks to a comment and e-mails by Darrell Foster Kirsop), but you probably don't care anyway.

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You may have noticed that something was going wrong with the website and the blog these days, and you were right... Some dumb-ass by the name of mon7b6@gmail.com (go ahead spammers, do the dirty work!) hacked my probably-not-so-hard-to-hack site and added some stuff of his own, overwriting the blog's theme main file and the site's home page...

Being abroad and traveling it has been hard for me to fix it quickly, and I had to disable the blog's theme and create a basic new home page from my iPhone, thanks to FTP On The Go (an ugly but useful app that I've been happy to discovered in the App Store). Everything should be OK now but I'll have to wait until I get back home to restore what's been destroyed.

By the way, I'm in Ulaan Baatar right now and, except the fact that fixing a website is hard, everything is OK here!

Oh! And Link Dump is broken, too. Damn it!

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During this 3 week trip I'll stop (for 2 to 6 days) in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Ulaan Baatar and Beijing. I just can't wait.

I'll try to send pics while abroad but I don't really know how easy accessing the Internet will be. We'll see!

As usual, this is going to be hard for me to reply to comments and feedback, but drop'em anyway ; I'll manage them from an Internet Café if I can, or when I get back home... See you soon, readers!

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Montréal

The first city I visited during the trip. Looking pretty much like a big US city, except people speak french... My brother and I went to see Rancid live, where we ate our first "Poutine" ; funny stuff. We also saw Misteur Valaire and Omnikrom. MV was a good discovery, go grab their album!

Lots of nice tags around "Les Foufounes Electriques", also... And a fireworks battle!

Québec City

Lovely town, small streets, drunk people. It was both "La Fête de la Musique" and the national day when we were there, so empty beer cans were filling up the gutters! I went fishing for the first time in my life and got a trout, yep. We ate it and had some lobster, too... Yay!

Before leaving we stopped for breakfast at a weird place called "Restaurant Madrid" where you get to see monster trucks and dinosaurs on the parking lot. Sick!

Washington

The placed where the NECC happened, and where we had our own booth. Lots of people walking around, lots of huge booths with big goodies... We looked tiny!

Nice city for free museums, the current Feature Photography in Smithsonian's Portrait Gallery is awesome, go visit it! If you prefer dinosaurs or mammals, the Natural History Museum is good too! Of course I had to see the White House, the Capitol and Lincoln's Memorial...

New York City

The craziest city of all.

Went to see "Up" on Times Square's AMC, with 3D glasses and all: loved it. Bought a pair of Bose Supra at J&R. Went to Jonathan LeVine Gallery to see Invader's Top 10 exhibition and some of WK Interact's works. Headed to Brooklyn's Southpaw for Cage's album release concert, with Tone Tank, Yak Ballz and more... Had a breakfast with Lutz, Zoe and their 1-month-old baby in SoHo.

And more. One day I'll live there.

That's it!

Want more? Have some (untouched) pics on Picasa!

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Those last 3 weeks have been awesome, I'll hopefully post details and pictures about the trip soon!

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This is a half work/half holidays trip, of which the main purpose is the NECC event in Washington where we (eduMedia) will be and hopefully offering goodies and an iPhone app I've been working on lately (I might post details/screenshots on that when Apple finally does its job).

If some readers are in the Washington DC area during the event, come see us!

I will try to post photos and thoughts while travelling, if I'm lucky enough to get some WiFi access... And that might not be too hard!

On a side-note, and as some have noticed, I've pushed an update for Boks this week end (0.3) that fixes some issues and adds a few functionalities. I will not really be able to handle bugs and/or questions while abroad but don't hesitate to send feedback!

This post uses a Snips model file for the Google Maps iframe.

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I've been quiet for some time because my laptop died without warning... But happily I'm back with a brand new one (with Vista, ouch!) and just took time to enhance this blog a bit!

First of all I've updated the theme's code so the HTML output is cleaner. Nobody cares, but I do.

Then, I've developed a functionality that will allow me (and others?) to make this blog more active: Link dump. It's still empty for the moment, but don't worry it should fill quite quick!

Basically it allows me to only post links and mysterious titles... No extra words, no image, just a simple link. Click at your own risks.

These links will also pop in your feed reader and to make them look different their title will be prefixed with a funny ∗ character. This is also true for the blog, here's how it will look like:

You'll still be able to comment on the links like you do on regular posts...

Glad to be back!

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Heck.

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See a bigger map at Google Maps.

More pics at Picasa.

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Happy 2009 folks!

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• 86 posts
  • 17 under dev
  • 20 under music
  • 46 under visual
  • and 13 off topic
• 247 comments (and around 5,500 spams caught)
• Around 93,500 visits
• Around 64,000 unique visitors
• Around 126,000 pageviews
• IE represents only 13,5%, yay!
• Windows is used by 75% of the visitors (Mac is 21%)
• Most folks came from the USA, France and Japan
• And they came through
  • referring sites: 51%
  • direct traffic: 41%
  • search engines: 8%

That's it, buddies!

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I've updated WebKut, Shrink O'Matic and Kwot (that hopefully will not get spammed anymore). I've also refreshed the homepage and blog header... Subtle changes, for sure!

Doubts? Here's a before/after:

For you player haters, here are the 2008 and 2009 homepage images so you can compare.

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