weechat2

It has been a really, really long time since I used weechat for the last time but now I'm back and I don't anticipate to look back again.

My first irc attempt was with a web-based client (possibly mibbit) Then, when I started irc'ing seriously I started using irssi (inside screen). After that, a friend of mine recommended me weechat (inside tmux). I liked both combinations, but I soon went back to the good old duo irssi and screen. Why? Well, I really made an intensive use of the irssi proxy plugin. With it I could connect to the same core from different clients and different locations. It was very handy for me. (I know that weechat also has a relay plugin but I never bothered configuring it)

Now I really do not use the proxy. I only use one computer at a time so connecting via sshto the machine running my irc client 24/7 is more than enough for me at the moment. But then, the bad news, the machine running my irc client (odin at sdfeu.org) crashed and we were left without the service for an unspecified amount of time.

So I put plan B into practice. Bounce using my raspi, which already hosts my gopher server. In my raspi I only had tmux and weechat already configured, so I didn't spend any time installing and configuring other programs. I directly launched the already existing ones. And wow! what a difference. Now that I'm a bit more into the irc world. I can take advantage of the plugins and scripts that allow you to achieve what you want/need.

One big difference between weechat and irssi is that weechat's scripts and plugins seem to be more integrated (ie. work better) than in irssi. Apart from the fact that weechat has a lot of default options that you can only achieve in irssi installing plugins.

The best plugin, so far, is the aspell one. Once activated, it highlights in red your misspelt words. This way you avoid posting a lot of typos.

The best scripts, so far, are: the buffers.pl, urlbar.py, urlgrab.py, cmus.py, weeget.py, iset.pl and isgd.pl (a url shortening service utility) but there are also a lot of fun and interesting ones, like for example , the games weetris.pl or mastermind.pl. Some other scripts that allow you to manipulate text are, among many others, leet.py, upside_down.py or prism.py

I have played with some others and I will spend the rest of the weekend trying new ones, like for example the beep.pl or launcher.pl ones.

Screenshot of the week 5

This is how my sid desktop looks like after I installed this nice wallpaper of the interior of a toyota celica.

Now while I'm working at the computer I can imagine that I'm driving my car, oh so lovely :p

More celica

I took this picture this morning. (Borat would say: "Wawaweewaa! I like")

Greenhouse

I have been working in the garden for a couple of days building a small and affordable greenhouse for less than 100€. It is not finished yet but you can get an idea of how it will look like once it is done.

Celica photo shoot

This afternoon we made a small photo shoot of the celica. I hope you like it. Thanks to Jesus for the cool pics.

Celestial celica

I have been dreaming about this car ever since I was a teenager. Well, twenty years ago the model was really different, the headlights were round but the sports look and feel were more or less the same.

To tell you the truth, I used to dream about the 1990's model, it is the one that stole my heart. They are not very difficult to find on the net but to be sincere, that model is a relatively old car, not yet a classic, I hope you see the difference and get what I mean.

I already own a toyota and I'm very happy with it. It is the most reliable car I've ever had so far but it is simply not a celica ;)

When toyota stopped producing celicas in 2005 I thought that I would never be able to get one. But guess what, I went to a car fair last weekend (I usually go to all of them) and found it. This happens to be the 2005 model and thus the very last one in production.

Well, I couldn't resist and bought it, so now I have a small collection of toyotas at home, which is cool. I hope to get a discount in my next acquisition for being a faithful customer ;)

Here you are a couple of pictures I took at the fair. I'll upload more photos soon, I want to find a lovely background to show off how knockout my celica looks. Absolutely stunning, isn't it?

Here comes the sun.

I know it took a while until I could place the solar panels in the right location but I've been busy all summer long.

I bought four solar panels at the end of July and they arrived at the beginning of August. First, I made a provisional installation to see if they worked correctly and they did, but they could not take advantage of direct sunlight all day long.

I started building the frame to hold eight big solar panels and I did all the work to put it on the roof of the house. Today I have finally "uploaded" the four initial solar panels and connected the cables. They have been producing good electricity all the afternoon. "Good" as in both "environmental friendly" and " for free", or "gratis".

If the results are good, I'm gonna get four more for Christmas. They are really cheap now so it is the right time to do it.

Here are some pics: