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The Sims 2

I have bought The Sims 2, and I must say that I’m not dissapointed (at least not yet). It has a lot of new twists to it which makes it differ from the original and a lot more fun and variated. The only bad thing about it is that I don’t have the time to play the game :)

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Debianart using Smarty... soon

I have started rewriting debianart.dk to use the Smarty template engine. I gives me better overview of the coding and it also provides me with tools which helps me create a better website. Although I have already encountered a few quirks with it. I had trouble concating smarty variables with smarty variables and text strings with smarty variables within a smarty function. I use the Smarty plugin: PNG image with Alpha Transparency to display PNG images with transparency in IE.

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GAIM notifications

I found a promising GAIM plugin, Guifications recommended by a friend. It displays buddy states similar to MSN with a popup box in the cornor of the screen, which disappears after a few seconds.

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Hanging in there

The limited number of posts the last month is evidence that work have been taking too much of my time lately. Now I’m really looking forward to my vacation. I’m going to look closer on the code for art.gnome.org and see if I can reuse it for debianart.dk.

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Substitute "Mac" newlines with unix ones

At work we have been struggling with bad newlines in php-pages created with dreamweaver on a Mac. The newlines screwed up grep results and was mainly just one big pain in the ***. This is a little note to my self about how to solve it.

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King Arthur

Yesterday I went to the movies with a friend of mine to see “King Arthur”. It had been a while since we last met. We went to the big movie theatre in Copenhage (Imperial) where we spend some time before the movie to catch up. I had a great time and the movie was good, not like Braveheart or Gladiator but okay entertainment no doubt.

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