Zeta-Puppis.com

And finally here it is: I launched right now this site’s redesign. I haven’t put a lot of work on it but I’m pleased with the final results. I like min­i­mal­ism and mono­chrome designs, and even though this isn’t the most min­i­mal­ist design ever, I think it’s a good com­pro­mise. Taking advan­tage from oppor­tu­nity, I added some new fea­tures to the site (and removed some old ones).

The biggest change is the right column: now inte­grates my pownce feed. I’m still trying to under­stand why it doesn’t show noth­ing but simple posts, but I’ll fix it some­day (that’s not my fault though, I’m using a word­press plugin). And all the stuff that pre­vi­ously were on the right, now are on the very bottom of the page.

Just a couple of rants: I wish this was pow­ered from django and I hate wordpress.

Despite the fact that I usu­ally develop cool web stuff for other guys, I’m not really into the whole web2.0 thing. Although I sub­scribed to ser­vices like flickr, last.fm and google reader shares, I don’t use them very much (nor I pub­li­cize them a lot, although there’s a whole sec­tion for them on the right).

This time I decided to give to a web2 app a new chance of get­ting me addicted: twit­ter. Quite sure that I won’t last that much, but at least I tried… See you on twitter!

This is more a remain­der for me: in order to make the sur­round work for mp3s with the CA0106 driver with alsa (for me it’s a Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit), here’s the .asoundrc that should be used:

pcm.!dmix {
   type plug
   slave {
       pcm surround51
       channels 6
   }
}
pcm.!default {
   type plug
   slave.pcm "dmix"
   slave.channels 6
   route_policy duplicate
}

Just sub­scribed to Pownce. Still trying to under­stand if I’ll ever use it.