Ramblings of a Red Mage

Ten Rules For Being Human

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1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”

4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5.Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”

7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. You will forget all this.

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Abandoning ship

In order to cut unnecessary costs, I decided to stop using Slicehost — I wasn’t exploring it to its fullest potential anyway — and use Tumblr instead. I might change to a wordpress.com hosted blog or something, but I think Tumblr will suffice.

Heck, I might not even stop using Slicehost at all!

EDIT: I just deleted my slice at Slicehost. I’m sad to do it, since their product is so damn good, but tough times lead to tough decisions. Thanks guys, it was awesome to be your client.

Book Meme

In the new light (the rich reddish-gold illumination) the interior of the medicine shop took on the strange opulence of an old oil painting; everything became transformed beneath a thick veneer of gleaming obscurity.

1. Pega no livro mais próximo.
2. Abre na página 56.
3. Procura a quinta frase.
4. Coloca um post no teu blog com o texto e seguido destas instruções.
5. Não escolhas o teu livro favorito, o mais cool ou o mais intelectual.

Djangology

Django 1.0 was released two days ago (3rd of September, 2008).

I know everybody else already knew this and that I’m late to the party, but who cares?

Some small things changed, some easily fixable, other not so much. Thankfully, there’s a porting guide for 0.96 -> 1.0, which was very useful in updating apathy engine.

As you might have noticed, if you use a standards compliant browser (I’m not talking about you, Internet Explorer—go sit in the corner!), I’m using inline svg for the skull and crossbones in the navigation sidebar. Creating that was fun:

1. Open Inkscape and paste a raster image of One Piece’s Strawhat Pirates flag.
2. Create paths from the initial image and remove it when finished.
3. Edit the resulting svg in vim, in order to simplify it and reduce its size.
4. Check if I didn’t mess up the svg.
5. Goto 3 until satisfied.
6. Paste the svg data directly into the xhtml.

So, I’ve gone from a 9,9 KiB unintelligible svg to a 3,1 KiB easily readable one. It was a nice learning experience.