Loose thoughts
A set of ideas, some developed, some not more than a single
sentence, for which I haven't found a better place yet. ([fr] =
in French; [nl] = in Dutch)
- Short thoughts
- A page of ultra-short ideas.
- What's playing on FIP?
- A script to show the current song in a terminal window.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2023) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- Bug in MacOS Terminal.app setting LC_CTYPE
- When you get errors like ‘warning: Setting locale failed’
under MacOS (e.g., when you ssh from MacOS to another
machine), it may be due to this bug. But there is a
workaround.
- safe 1.5
- Version 1.5 of my password manager for the command line,
built on gpg and grep.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2022) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2021) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- BBC Radio streaming URLs
- The URLs for listening to the MP3 streams of BBC Radio in a
media player are hard to find on the BBC web site. So here is a
handy list.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2020) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- safe 1.3
- Version 1.3 of my password manager for the command line,
built on gpg and grep.
- r2sync
- A program to synchronise two (remote or local) directories,
similar to unison.
- The dates of the summer closing of the libraries
of Antibes/CASA [fr]
- Because the original site requires 2,7 MB of JavaScript and
PDF for the same information and still doesn't work on a
mobile phone.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2019) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- safe 1.2
- Version 1.2 of my password manager for the command line,
built on gpg and grep.
- vorbiscommentedit 1.4
- Version 1.4 of the program that allows to edit tags in Ogg
and FLAC files with a text editor.
- ‘Safe’, my password manager
- ‘Safe’ is a password manager for the command line, built on
gpg and grep.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2018) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2017) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- The BezahlCode
- The BezahlCode is a URL scheme in use by some German shops,
not very different from my “pay:” scheme.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2016) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- Flactags
- Flactags is a small command-line program to print
information about FLAC files occording to a printf-like format
string.
- vorbiscommentedit 1.3
- Version 1.3 of the program that allows to edit tags in Ogg
and FLAC files with a text editor.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2015) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2014) as
icalendar [fr]
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- Train tickets: April's Fool in May? [nl]
- This summer (2014) train tickets in the Netherlands will
become € 1 more expensive, because they will have a
micro-chip. A chip of a few cents. (A bar code would not have
cost anything at all.) And you'll have to pay to get on the
platform, just like in the '50s of the last century.
- Patti Smith sings her support for Edward
Snowden
- Patti Smith gave an inspired concert in Vence on July 18,
2013.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2013) as
icalendar
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- The “pay:” URL scheme
- Instead of filling in unfamiliar forms with credit card
information when you need to pay for something online, you
could click on a ”pay:” URL that opens your bank's standard
payment application.
- Gasiorowski et Médée [fr]
- About the painting “Les Fatalités ou les
liens de la famille: Médée” by Gérard Gasiorowski,
at a temporary exhibit at the Fondation
Maeght.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2012) as
icalendar
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- “Une moderne antiquité” [fr]
- An exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Antibes and a new
museum: the Museum of Classic Art in Mougins.
- The ice museum in Mazaugues
- Mazaugues (Var) has an interesting little museum about
storing the winter's ice for use in the summer, in the 18th and
19th centuries.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2011) as
icalendar
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- Vorbistags
- Vorbistags is a small command-line program to print
information about Ogg Vorbis files occording to a printf-like
format string.
- On
not changing the keyboard focus in Web documents
- Why it is a bad idea to use Javascript to set the keyboard
focus in Web documents.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2010) as
icalendar
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- La Pala
- About the book (in French) La Pala by Christian
Maria.
- Lustrummusical 1987 [nl]
- Only interesting for members of Hendrik de Cock at that time:
recordings of the songs from the lustrum musical of May 1,
1987.
- Un livre imprimé en 1768 [fr]
- I have a book that is more than two centuries old.
- The “Soirées estivales” (2009) as
icalendar
- The content of the HTML pages converted to ICS.
- Cut & paste between X and Mac applications
- If cut & paste between X11 and Mac no longer
works…
- La nuit des musées 2009 [fr]
- The 2009 museums night was a great success in Antibes.
- Two interesting reads in support of “net
neutrality”
- An article in the New York
Review of Books and another in Libération talk about the dangers of
centralisation om the Web.
- Roman theatre and cinema of Antibes
- Just a coincidence: the current cinema of Antibes is on the
site of the roman theatre (but the theatre was considerably
larger).
- DJ-1000 digital camera
- The contents of the two original floppies; and my own C
program for converting the proprierary image format to PPM.
- Tagging classical music
- How I tag classical music in Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.
- vorbiscommentedit
- A little Unix shell script to make it easier to edit Ogg (Ogg
Vorbis) and FLAC comments with a text editor.
- Finding local events
- There are many sites with information and despite that it is
difficult to find what is happening in a given week.
- Matisse, Viallat and some anonymous statues
[fr]
- Some beautiful painting and collages by Matisse, with the
response by the Nice painter Viallat. But the winner is the
exhibition of old statues in the former cathedral.
- Three villages [fr]
- Strange road signs at the city limit of Cagnes-sur-Mer,
unless it is the city limit of Villeneuve-Loubet…
- The school museum in Antibes
- A small museum, driven by a very enthusiastic team.
- Honouring font preferences in browsers
- A setting in browsers that re-maps all font sizes in a page
instead of only the smallest ones might help make pages easier
to read.
- Les chaises et le bagne [fr]
- A small essay on two plays.
- “JavaScript, the worst invention
ever”
- That phrase of mine has been quoted and commented by others
on the Web. Let's add some context: it's about JavaScript
in HTML.
- One trace of Roman Antibes wiped [fr]
- A small part of the remains of the Roman aqueduct of Antibes
has been removed. A pity.
- news.wanadoo.fr
- If news.wanadoo.fr doesn't work, it may be because of
Wanadoo's undocumented DNS trickery.
- Online literature shop
- You can buy music online and download it immediately, but you
can't buy books that way.
- What is a good standard?
- An essay about rules of thumb for the design of a good
technology for the Web.
- An API for WWW Applets
- Documentation for a set of APIs for a browser that is built
completely out of plug-ins. Dates from early 1995, but is still
an elegant architecture.
- Cables and travelling
- The modern business traveller has his methods to keep the
cables he carries untangled.
- Navigation menus
- It is time the LINK element of HTML gets used for what it was
made for: site navigation.
- CSS and device-independence
- A short "position paper" for a workshop.
- Ideas for ways of linking style sheets to
documents
- Some missing technology on the Web: how to associate style
sheets with document, when you cannot add a link to the
document.
- The paradox of portals
- Portals were invented to concentrate Web traffic, but there
are so many now that they rather help to distribute the load
than concentrate it.
- The "meta-location" HTTP header
- In January 2003, some people proposed an extension to HTTP to
associate meta-data documents with other documents. It's very
simple and therefore worth consideration.
- Installing a USB reader for Compact Flash on
Linux
- I had to patch the kernel source, but it works.
- Le service après vente de France Télécom
[fr]
- Does it exist?
- Web
applications
- An essay on the technology needed for possible “webapps,”
small programs that can be downloaded and executed in a browser
(like Java applets, but easier to make for small applications).
- A proposal for Webapps
- An essay focusing on the requirements for the technology to
make webapps as easy and as robust as possible.
Bert Bos
Created 17 February
2002