X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2009%2FApril;h=e9fa8edee4174f926264822991ad071082dfaa36;hp=a5df07209fca5190bba8b8bf23cba13e8b7fe725;hb=03109647700d3d5645a33c051b588461029bbafb;hpb=c47f39d6ca60ba894f50dd26305bd02fa7faf2df diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April index a5df072..e9fa8ed 100644 --- a/blog/2009/April +++ b/blog/2009/April @@ -1,17 +1,51 @@ == Bernie's brain dump as of April 2009 == -=== April 29th === +=== April 30th: Departure === -In the morning, we went to visit the [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site]]. -At some point one should grow bored of Shinto and Buddhist temples after seeing so many of them -all over Japan, but visiting Nikko's temple area was an extraordinary experience once again. -And I could finally spot a few [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko]]s too! +TODO -{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=800}} +==== GEEK UPDATE: Productive flight ==== + +On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time to add lots of new goodies to [[GeekiGeeki]], +including a nice grid view for photos, the possibility to specify css style for links and inline objects, +and automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs, which should make the wiki markup +much cleaner. As usual, these additions resulted in simplification of the codebase rather than code bloat :-) + +{{{ +git diff --stat v3.0..HEAD geekigeeki.py +geekigeeki.py | 709 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- +1 files changed, 352 insertions(+), 357 deletions(-) +}}} + +If you see any regressions in the output, please report them to me. I'm hoping to release +4.0 soon. + +Tags: [[tags/stuffthatmatters]] [[tags/!bloat]] [[tags/assimpleaspossible]] [[tags/nosimpler]] + +=== April 29th: Back to Tokyo === + +TODO === April 28th === -The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko|first batch of photos from Nikko]] are now online. +==== Guided tour ==== + +Pictures of our day-long [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour]] are now online. +Our friendly guide, the Buddhist monk whose name I forgot, answered many of our pending questions +about Japanese traditions and religion. Hiking through these sacred mountains and woods was an +enjoyable experience. + +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour/00038.jpg|maxwidth=800|The Yutaki Waterfalls}} + +TODO: assemble a good video from all the scenes I took along the way + +==== Nikko Temple Area ==== +In the afternoon, we went to visit the [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site]]. +One would expect to grow bored of Shinto and Buddhist temples after seeing many of them +all over Japan, but visiting the Nikko temple area was once again an extraordinary experience. +And I could finally spot a few [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko]]s too! + +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=800}} === April 27th ===