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.

My ol' Grand Pa' died on sunday morning.

He was born in 1919, yeah quite a while ago isnt it ?. His latest years were tough, too sick to do anything but looking through the narrower window of his pain, behind the curtains of his dispair. Yes that is some sort of sad story : he left hope, he felt bad, lots of pain within the body and into the soul, he was everything but alive - not literally speaking though - until sunday's breakout.

I hope you feel better now : at the very least nothing at all. You deserve it ! More than anyone. You had a great life - amazing AFAIK, I'm sure you'll never forget it, don't let the bitter taste of the last steps prior to the finishing line question the happiness of the big void.

Many thanx pal/t.

It may not be cocomment but this blog has now a new cool feature I dont think any other blog has AFAIK.

When you'll post a comment (see below - click on the "comments" link if you're on the homepage), you can leave your email as usual but you can also choose to be warned when new comments will be posted after you !

This works per article/conversation/page and you will be able to stop the notifications in the very same notification's email : either you want to stop the notifications on this article or you can simply stop all notifications from mi-ange.net if you're fed up with the system.

Please note actually that you can post an empty comment (with at least your email) if you want to turn on the notification without leaving a comment.

Here is something to dress up a bit more the left column. Now that some important persons (re)started to write, why not build some more links on the web.

Oh of course, nothing breath-taking I must admit but links are what's internet is all about don't you think ?

Fascinating.

This photographer became rich by fullfilling an unusual quest : he has been shooting butterflies since the 60s, and besides his work he was trying to find as much as possible readable drawings on their wings. Now he is able to have a complete alphabet and much more (smileys, animal faces etc...)

Is it poetry by nature or humans always need to bring nature expression closer to their own modelled world to appreciate it ?

His gallery of posters, a "hint" website about some of his art.

I was wandering on the internet, ok it is saturday night, 01:24 in the morning and I'm clearly really tired. So just one click here, one click there. Tried to go to youtube but accidently went to utube - tired I told you ! Then read a "paper" about the problems between utube and the video company, clicked there, watched a couple of videos yeah well nothing really exciting. In fact before all of that, I thought I could post a message on my blog - I haven't been there in almost a month - but yeah quite tired and didn't want to bother... until I found this video on youtube. And magically the "white paper anguish" went away.

Ok, usually I'm not very found with all the marketing buzz words toolkit and the happy/slappy/euphoristic infomercials about how great and simple our technofuture is by our best-friends the tech-evangelists. Not that I'm depressed or a sad boy but usually because this is just another way to sell some new bullshit to old consumers. But hey, this video is neat, funny, clever and well directed. Beautifully cut, enjoyable music and I must admit probably the best definition for what the persons from the previous sentences are calling : web 2.0, something as hard to define then finding the graal... 

After the kamini project (beware french lyrics) here is the swiss firemen from the Geneva Airport where I live (again french lyrics):

http://www.wideo.fr/video/iLyROoaftz0r.html

Terrific ! Thx to francois for the info.