TOKI WOKI. 

Wow, the blog is 2 and I almost missed it…

Just got me a Canon 7D, went out and played with it a bit (no Pho­to­shop trick, except for the text, obviously).

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

Facts

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!

Big news.

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.

Hey there reader! I’ve had this blog for more than a year now, and I have to say I’m pretty happy with it, but I’m won­der­ing about you…

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.

Done.

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.

Hi there, fellows!

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!

I just came back home from Canada and USA but I’ll be abroad again tomor­row ; for a train trip across Rus­sia, Mon­go­lia and China with the Trans-Siberian Railway…

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!

4 cities, 4 (almost) ran­dom pics, and some words.

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!

Just came home from NYC.

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