fragility

About one year after the release of Year Zero and less than 6 months after the release of Ghosts, the Nine Inch Nails have released a new single and apparently are preparing to release a new album as well. The single was first released to radios (and ETS went crazy once again) and later in the day was posted on the official website.

The single sounds like something out of With Teeth, as if it was some weird mix of The Hand That Feeds and Only (which means, dance away bitches !) and it’s really catchy. Sure it’s not oldschool NIN or Year Zero weirdish NIN but I still like it (and I have to admit that I really like With Teeth, not unlike most NIN fans).

Speculation is starting to run wild about whether Trent was holding out on his songs these last few years because he wasn’t happy with his contract with Interscope. Personally, I think he might be more willing to try out different things now (like Ghosts) than before and pick up old ideas because he can just release it if he feels like it and not have it been rejected by some stupid executives.

If people like it or not it’s a different story, but hey…it’s his own thing and from what we can understand from his flickr updates looks like he has more people working with him on his new stuff these days so a lot of the crappy stuff surely gets filtered out really soon (or at least influenced by those persons opinions).

As a hardcore NIN fan that I am, I can’t wait for this new album to be released and for another european tour. Please, don’t fuck up Trent.

Instead of posting that damned shell history meme why can’t people just write posts about the apps they use and why they use it ? It would be so much nicer. Think about it people. Maybe you could even submit some nice articles to sites which need them.

Yes, I’m bored and kinda pissed.

Did anyone spot one of these ? I’ve been in the Oriente station a few days ago but I didn’t have the luck to spot them.

Update:
That link doesn’t seem to be working right now, try this one (which doesn’t have all the pics): http://tinyurl.com/2pqdfe

As I’ve written before, I’ve been using Firefox 3, and as with everyone else, one of the first changes I noticed was the Awesome Bar. At first I didn’t really knew what to think about it, and then it started to annoy me a bit but when I changed my mindset and started using it the “Gnome Do way”, I started to get along with it.

However, something still annoys me a lot.

If the mouse pointer is hovering above the area where the bar is going to appear, then the option below the pointer gets automatically selected. That way, if I want to use the first result given by the awesome bar, I can’t just press the down arrow and use it. I either have to press the up arrow some times or move the mouse there, and that way the awesomeness disappears. It completely defeats the purpose.

This didn’t happen with the old bar, and it doesn’t happen with the search box. On the search box, an item only gets selected with the mouse pointer after you move the pointer.

I’ve been searching the bug tracker but I haven’t found anything similar. Can anyone confirm if this is still present on the latest builds ?

Hopefully this will get corrected before the final release, otherwise this is going to be a huge usability flaw which is sure to annoy many more users.

As I’ve written before, I’ve been adventuring into the world of Python lately, namely with PyGTK, Zope/Plone, and Django. Although I’m a huge newbie with these technologies, I’ve been picking up stuff pretty fast and I love Django and the speed at which I’m developing an application with it.

So after I started doing some stuff with newforms, I hit a wall. Newforms lets you generate a from from a model, and represents most of the model’s attributes in the form attributes format, except for one very important field: error_messages (or, if it does, is not yet documented).

After looking around for a while, and using a couple of tips from #django @ freenode, I came up with a solution for my problem, and since I haven’t found any exact reference to this problem anywhere else, here it is:


class myForm(ModelForm):
..def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
....super(myForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
....self.fields['field_name'].error_messages = {'required': "This field is required"}
..class Meta:
....model = myModel

(Sorry for the lack of indentation. Wordpress code tag doesn’t seem to like spaces.)

Maybe it would be a good idea in the future to specify a model attribute to contain those messages.

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