glite@g-lite:~$ sudo usermod -s /bin/zsh glite

I feel it’s the only way I’ll ever give it a serious shot. It looks great from reading and mucking about so far.

I just checked in my baby to Gajim, the new service discovery interface.
I need to find some more service icons, but it’s pretty polished and solid already.

A screenshot:

Unfortunatly, a lot is greyed out there. That’s just the sad state of lots of jabber services, they all use old service discovery protocols. We ditched those.

Check it out!

Just came back from Disney. I’ve been there before, but it was still alot of fun.

Last time I went I was afraid of loopings, corkscrews, and pretty much rode the Big Thunder Mountain to death. I had a chance to make up for all that.

So the things I’ll probably never forget from the first day are the Indiana Jones coaster, and Space Mountain: Mission 2.

The former was a short, fun ride. The line wasn’t too long, so I went in a second time. It had two steep drops, followed by a slanted curve downward and then straight into a looping. The rest was just a bit bumpy, but it was still nice.

The blastoff in Space Mountain wasn’t as thrilling as I expected, but the ride was bloody fast. The ride was pretty dark, so I didn’t see alot, but I sure as hell felt it. It was rather short aswell, though.

Best coaster was the second day, in Walt Disney Studios, the Aerosmith ride. It had a blastoff aswell, so we were sitting there at the spot, and I was thinking to myself the blastoff would be the easy part of the ride. But boy, was I ever so wrong… I was doing roughly 70 kmph before I figured out what the hell just happened. Good stuff.

The best thing is that I really should’ve seen it coming. The boarding room was an L-shaped hall that looked like some sort of metallic music hall. The entrance was on one end, the boarding on the other. After the boarding, the train went around the corner and stopped at the entrance for blastoff.

So when we entered the room, a train was launched right in front of us. It was filled mostly with girls, and they weren’t really paying attention to the countdown, but to the line next to them waiting to board. Imagine the screems when they got sucked down that launch pipe… hilarious.

Over the past couple of days, I’ve been writing an OpenID server. Unfortunatly, my host doesn’t support anything but Perl and PHP, so I had to do it with that. I prefer PHP over Perl, OpenID was originally written in Perl, but I found a PHP OpenID library. Lucky me.

I’ve been hacking the example that comes with it quite a bit, and have a working SQL based OpenID server running on this domain.

The next step will be beefing it up a bit, there’s no way to configure it right now, except for accepting websites. Being able to change the login fields and trusted websites online would be nice. I think I’ll implement a logging function aswell.

It took some messing around—I have absolutely no idea how X11 atoms work—, but I’ve worked up a nasty hack that uses gtkmozembed and some nautilus code translated to Python to get “Active desktop”-like functionality.

Obligatory screenshot

I also wrote a version using gtkhtml 2. I doubt I’ll use either, though. :p