I have bought The Sims 2, and I must say that I’m not dissapointed (at least not yet). It has a lot of new twists to it which makes it differ from the original and a lot more fun and variated. The only bad thing about it is that I don’t have the time to play the game :)
I’m going to implement types/categories on sumbissions for Debianart.dk to classify them. I friend send me this great link on how to implement this and at the same time think of performance.
I have started rewriting debianart.dk to use the Smarty template engine. I gives me better overview of the coding and it also provides me with tools which helps me create a better website. Although I have already encountered a few quirks with it. I had trouble concating smarty variables with smarty variables and text strings with smarty variables within a smarty function. I use the Smarty plugin: PNG image with Alpha Transparency to display PNG images with transparency in IE.
I found a promising GAIM plugin, Guifications recommended by a friend. It displays buddy states similar to MSN with a popup box in the cornor of the screen, which disappears after a few seconds.
I wanted to update my kernel to the 2.6.8 kernel but I had some troubles compiling the Madwifi source code because a change in the kernel source code. I found a patch for the 2.6.8 kernel (only) and a Howto for applying the patch.