Why aren't you an artist, a scientist, a hero ?
Dont you feel the urge to be more than you, but no more than anyone ?
Dont you hear further than the noise of living ?
Dying of being average, simply replaceable copycat.
Arent you tired of your mechanical reactions ?
Dont you see the unbearable mighty numbers ?
Everything's temporary, transiting bodies and futile hapiness
Could you be more, do you have what it takes ?
Would you be able to salt reality ?
To deliver something new.
To create, invent, inspire.
Extirpate the divine out of you.
Build a death with a meaning.
To let the place tidier or cuter.
Dont you smell the fear of your own destiny ?
If life's a bitch, who's creativity ?
Craving to be high but you're too heavy.
Addicted to the very instants tasting god in your veins...

if you had like me this kind of problem when trying to install or uninstall a package with PECL or PEAR:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16 bytes) in /usr/share/php/PEAR/Registry.php on line 1012

Than your version of php is older than 5.2.0, either because you didnt reinstall it for a while or because you're under ubuntu for example.

After this version they figured out that the memory limit by default in PHP is 8M, which is very low, so probably you have all figured out how to increase this value in the php.ini !

Yeah but pecl and pear are not using the php.ini sadly, not even the "cli" version that you have under ubuntu or other installation. It is just PLAIN DEFAULT values.

So the trick is to edit the pecl script which is locate here under ubuntu (at least 6.10) :

/usr/bin/pecl

edit the last line where << exec $PHP ... >> is written and add << -d memory_limit="-1" >> just after $PHP, this should look like :

exec $PHP -d memory_limit="-1" -C -n -q $INCARG -d output_buffering=1 -d safe_mode=0 $INCDIR/peclcmd.php "$@"
 

What if my repository has changed its url ?

Forget svn switch it will only work if the domain name has changed (and yes especially if you used --relocate)

You can checkout again. Yes, but what if you changed some of the files and didnt want to commit them ? And you dont want to check out again 350 MB of data ?

Special attention for lucas.

Time for a second sneak peak

Processing the pictures is quite a pain. Ah bloody digital photography : countless pictures saved, total liberty for editing them !

Fewwww I wish I could not change anything at all.

I'm just like Sisyphus...

On the left, well I'm sure you know what is it.

Below this is a bouddha from the Yungang grottoes. The small one on the right actually remind me of someone, you know somebody at his peak of power ?

And here is the chinese solution to reduce CO2 emissions !

I've just watched Enchanted... and pretty proud to find it great. Ok ok it's christmas and this is a disney movie : 2 reasons to avoid paying 17.-- CHF and get stuck watching an over-sweety "life is greaaaaat" kissy kissy piece of celluloid.

Don't get me wrong, some are great such as Mary Poppins - Julie Andrews is actually the narrator of Enchanted - but lately apart of the pixar productions, the disney movies and animes have not been very exciting lately.

This one is a touchdown. It's cleverly written, full of wit and even the usual nauseous songs are finally a real catch since they have their own logic in the movie... and dont be afraid, the good thing too is that they're kept to a minimum - the longest one being in the park.

The actors are quite good, especially Amy Adams who is just perfect in the role and James Marsden is impressive as the pain-in-the-ass "perfect" prince. Only Patrick Dempsey is just about average but is sufficient enough.

So whichever you're a little child, third ager or heavy metal biker, run to see this movie and if the christmas spirit is not coming to you... Let it snow because this is just a bloody good entertaining movie.

Ok I've been busy lately, my girlfriend took me on a nice week end off, weather has been bad bad bad and so on... plenty of excuses made me dont move on very quickly with the whole piccies thinggy. Who am I kidding ? It even kind of stalled for a moment ! But still I made some progresses... sort of.

So as I do am a clever guy full of ... wonderful ideas, I've lost spent some time to make a picture counter ! Yeah. And I still don't figure out why I've not received the nobel prize, don't I ?

Anyway, you can see on the left how far am I real time. God bless technology... and the holy ghost in the machine.

Problem of the day :

under IE if you want to have buttons without too much space on left and right ( which cannot be removed by neither margin:0 nor padding: 0 ), you can use this trick : { overflow: visible; } which works on all version of IE.

But you may just trigger another bug in IE7 : when you scroll the page the buttons display start to be corrupted ( they disappear / vanish pieces by pieces) and fixed only if you move the mouse pointer above them ! Cool...

This is because you used the directive { height: ...; } which seems to make IE try to "stretch" the box and therefore triggers these problems.

To fix this you just have to use { line-height: ...; } instead of height and this will work better in FF as well.

Example of a nice button : (without the complete rules as on the trick above)

PS: yes I really need to implement some styles for the code !

[EDIT] : done!

A little Update Some figures first : 2755 Pictures Kept at the end of the journey (before sorting). 4.127.362.796 Bytes = 3.84 GB After 10 hours of processing, I've (hum) done around 75 pictures out of 2755... This may take a little bit more time than even the worse of my previsions ! I should hurry a little bit more I'm afraid. As a little preview here are some pictures, probably it wont be the last one before the end   The picture on the right has just its canvas cut. It's from a garden in the forbidden city.

The next one (below) is a piece of one of the roof. This picture has been heavily processed : sky was not as blue, colors have been changed a little bit and because of direct sun the part in the shade has been greatly improved. The result looks pretty much like it should be in the end of afternoon.

Roofs in ancient China empire follow strict rules :

• See the yellow/orangish top : it is the emperor color.
• There are several (up to ten) beasts on each corner. They are always the same and on the same order. The number of the beasts represents the social rank : the greater the merrier. 10 is for the emperor's room.
• Just below it is usually green or blue or in-between.
• The walls themselves are red because it represents joy and happiness. Same for the flag nowadays.

The last picture is from a garden near the lake Zhinghai and lake Nanhai, very next to the forbidden city.

Tell me what you think ? 

For the latest 3 weeks I've been travelling into China. I'm actually in Canton and this is the first day I had enough time to write a little bit on the blog.

Anyway the point is not to make a complete weblog about the travel itself - to be honest I prefer exploring than geeking on the computer ( I m doing it enough the rest of the time  ) - but just to keep updated and to announce that back from china I'll post some of my best pictures on the web and some explanations / figures / funny stories. If I have enough time I'll build a complete photo show from the 4 Gigs of pictures I've shot during the trip.

So stay tuned, I've brought the D50 with me this time and I've got some XP on how to use it now...

One more week in this wonderful land of China. And that's gr8.