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Archive for May, 2008

Podzilla on PC fails to refresh menus

May 24th, 2008 / projects

As a pet project, I spent some time setting up Ipod Linux on my iPod. Works quite nicely (Othello, for one, is a nice game).

So I decided I would also run podzilla on my desktop to experiment with programming for my iPod myself. However, I found that the menu failed to refresh completely: the new menu was drawn over the old menu without clearing it first.

Luckily, the solution is pretty easy: just select an other color scheme (”Settings”>”Appearance”>”Color Scheme”) and it works perfectly. Hopefully more updates soon!

The Great Exciting Beer Test 2008

May 18th, 2008 / Miscellanea

[Bavaria] After the 2004 edition and the 2006 edition, last weekend again it was time for the Great Exciting Beer Test.

The set-up is quite simple: 18 beers are served in anonymous glasses — this year by Hilde, thanks very much! The participants then grade on a scale from 1 to 10 for looks, smell, taste, aftertaste and general opinion, and try to guess which beer is which. Of cource the combination guarantees some fun results when people fail to recognize malt beer, or when they give low grades to their predeclared “favorite beers”. The beers tested this year, in alphabetical order:

Alfa, Amstel, Amstel Malt, Bavaria, Brand, Carlsberg, Chimay Trappist, Dommelsch, Duvel, Export, Grolsch, Heineken, Hertog Jan Grand Prestige, Krusovice, Mongozo, Palm, Schutters, Warsteiner

The best beer

Let’s first look at the most important result: the best-graded beer. The following table summarizes this:

Naam PC PPL SD UI AR SM NS E
1 Bavaria 5,0 1,6 0,6 6,8 7,2 7,4 7,3 7,3
2 Palm 5,4 2,0 1,2 6,0 8,1 7,0 6,8 7,2
3 Mongozo 5,9 3,0 1,0 6,2 5,3 7,3 7,2 6,9
4 Dommelsch 5,0 1,5 0,6 6,1 6,9 6,6 6,2 6,7
5 Grolsch 5,0 0,0 0,5 6,0 6,7 6,4 6,1 6,6
6 Duvel 8,5 4,2 0,8 5,8 4,3 6,6 7,1 6,4
7 HJ G Prestige 10,0 3,3 1,6 6,7 7,5 6,8 6,8 6,4
8 Chimay Trappist 7,0 4,6 0,8 6,5 5,5 6,7 6,5 6,3
9 Alfa 5,0 1,3 1,3 5,7 6,2 6,1 6,0 6,3
10 Amstel 5,0 1,7 0,8 6,3 7,1 6,4 6,0 6,3
11 Export 5,0 0,8 1,1 5,8 6,6 6,1 6,1 6,1
12 Brand 5,0 1,8 1,4 5,3 7,4 5,5 6,0 5,9
13 Carlsberg 5,0 3,0 0,9 5,7 6,9 5,5 5,6 5,8
14 Heineken 5,0 1,8 0,5 5,5 5,2 6,1 6,0 5,7
15 Schutters 5,0 1,0 0,8 5,5 6,5 5,3 5,2 5,4
16 Krusovice 5,0 3,9 1,4 5,0 7,7 5,5 5,0 5,3
17 Amstel Malt 0,1 1,8 1,5 6,3 6,3 5,0 5,4 5,3
18 Warsteiner 4,8 3,0 0,8 4,8 4,7 5,8 5,3 5,2

More results later; for now, enjoy the raw data and this graph:

Wordpress patch: depth option in pages widget

May 1st, 2008 / projects

Another small thing I needed for the Inchperfect website: a configurable depth for the pages sidebar widget.

The depth option controls how many levels of subpages are shown in the pages hierarchy: 0 (the default) means everything; -1 means all but in flat form, and a value of >0 means pages up to the given level (see here under “depth” for details). To see it in action, the depth setting is set to 2 on the Inchperfect website, and this page is of depth 3, so it is not shown in the pages list.

The patch modifies wp-includes/widgets.php: grab it here! Tested with Wordpress 2.5.0, will test with 2.5.1 soon.