I might as well look as alien as possible because it reinforces a point I am making. My whole thing is that I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It’s the only way I can break so many rules. Remember, my background is totally strange - German classical opera. So I was uncertain about coming from that to rock. It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany. It was another rule I was breaking. You just didn’t do that. And I am helped by the fact that pop and rock, which you would think has no rules at all, is really just as conservative as classical music. So what I do is doubly shocking. The difference is that punk audiences admire that I can shock them. Nothing is sacred to me. Who is making the rules anyhow?
Klaus Nomi

A blast from the past. :)

Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

Dries predicted that there will be at least 10 books about Drupal published in 2008. Good news, he might've been right.

After Drupal 5 Themes (which, I know, was released in december last year) Packt Publishing just released two new books:

• Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6
• Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce

There's reviews to these books coming these days.

Also Packt will be releasing Learning Drupal 6 Module Development in June and O'Reilly a Drupal cookbook.

NexT Cultural Society from Romania decided to convert their original static website to something more dynamic and manageable. I was in charge of implementing the new version using, of course, my platform of choice. Drupal. :) You can view the result at http://www.nextproject.ro/ It's still in beta and there's a couple of small things to fix.

What it uses:

• Image and Imagecache
• Fckeditor
• CCK
• Localizer
• Sifr
• Webform
• A custom module (being contributed these days) to extend the menu (to allow specifying a CSS class or id and to decide what user roles see it)
• A custom module to archive the current festival pages and create a blank structure for a new one

:D
More to come in a week or so. And because of this it's also time to update the Simpy php api. Looking back at the code I wrote two years ago is not an easy sight.

Within Temptation - Blue eyes

Van Noizz - Pas cu pas

Searching for a simple accordion who works with an older jQuery version I'm forced to use and who doesn't have kilobytes of dependencies I didn't come across anything which suited me.

So I wrote my own starting from this blog post.

Simpy Dashboard Widget 0.1

• First release.
• Requires OS X 10.4.3+.
• Displays your latest links.
• Lets you search by tag or tags (separated by comma).
• Attempts to make it use all links rather than a user's links were unsuccessful. This is because the RSS feed for all user's links is huge and loading and parsing it took too much time.
• Grab it here.

Simpy Firefox Extension 0.4

• Changed the name to SFE. In the Linux tradition it means SFE Firefox Extension and not Simpy Firefox Extension as you might think. The name change was done since Simpy implied it being official, which is not.
• Updated for Firefox 3 beta.
• Added the possibility to use a popup when adding bookmarks. Warning: popup does not have group info.
• Some code cleanup.
• Grab it here or, when it's approved, here.

From a well known Apple commercial: "Don't know dude, Macs don't get those cryptic error messages". Yep, they don't...