Finally I could allow myself to get home right after work. Recently the
amount of various parties increased dramatically. So I started worrying
that I wouldn't be in time (before the end of January) with an article
about daemons in UNIX environment for the
argc & argv magazine, which I
promised to finish in time. Usually I get my promises seriously. Also
there was a need to tell my site visitors about recent activities of
mine.
Now I'll tell you some about parties I recently visited. One of the most
intresting ones took place last Sunday when in the same room a whole OON
gathered. Gustavo called this kind of party exactly this way, for there
only Africaans speaking people were not represented. There were Spanish,
Franch, Russian (me), Latin American, Canadian and several Romanian
guys. Funny thing was that the latter formed a kind of a national
minority there :) The rumble was organized in the appartment of one of
the Spanish guys (he was Basque in fact), which travelling Europe
stopped for some time here in Iasi. For guests he prepared quite an
intresting drink named "cocamucho" which was a mix of "coca-cola" and
wine. We renamed it into "cacamacho" immediatelly :) Now several
observations of mine go. First, speaking with one French guy we
discovered the Real Language of International Communication. The point
is that both of us being foreigners in Romania spoke with each other not
in English, Russian or French. We spoke Romanian, and this fact amused
me a lot. Also, a compatriot of his demonstrated really cool linguistic
knowlegde. Appears if you throw a showball to a cute and nice French
girl she starts crying out Russian curse words. And I didn't tought her
ever before. Wow :)
Till this moment I'm under impression of a book of George Orwell, "1984"
which I have read recently. Probably this old literature (it was written
in the year 1949) won't sound a disovery for the majority of site
visitors. And it's strange I haven't read it before. Nevertheless, if
some of you haven't done this yet it's strongly suggested to read.
Finally, about my programming. As soon as a release version of
libicq2000 sees the world, I'm gonna release the new version of
centericq. Indeed, it's a major breakthrough in terms of functionality
in comparison with 4.5.0. Recently implemented in
libicq2000 whitepages
search and self information update functionality found its place in the
brand text interface. Also some bugs were fixed as well as several new
features were implemented. After the release adding long awaited support
for AOL Instant Messenger protocol is planned.
By the way, now the
program has its own
fan club. Probably I should feel like a
real rock star now :) Besides, it's not the first site of such a kind,
for several years ago, when I was developing another quite famous
application on my own -
Tornado, several fan
club sites existed. This one is called
centericq.de and
Wolfram Schlich takes care of it.
He with some other guys gathers releases, useful advisories and answers
in the mailing list, makes screenshots, and so on, creating content for
the site this way.
And also, I repaired my sms address. Now you can send an e-mail message
to
phone@konst.org.ua or
pager@konst.org.ua adress, and it
will beep on my mobile phone immediately. I implemented it in quite a
complicated way. The point is the my current
Connex mobile operator doesn't have its
own e-mail -> sms gateway. So I had to setup the e-mail's going through
the
smssend
program which was using the
mtnsms.com site to get messages
delivered. mtnsms.com was the only site which supports
Connex, for no others including
ICQ are able to work with it.