Like I said there was the slight chance that i got everything wrong.
As someone noted in the comments for the earlier post i should multiply the price in € for the dollar value of 1.30, not divide by it…
Oh, well, shit happens… 
Monthly Archives: January 2007
iPod Index
One of the buzzwords of the day in the apple related blogosphere (1 2) is the so called "iPod index" that the biggest Australian bank (the Commonwealth Bank) decided to use to compare the value of diffent world currencies.
From what Yahoo reports it looks like people from Brazil pay a hefty 327$ for what people in the US pay for a 2Gb iPod nano.
The piece on Yahoo states that: "Purchasing power parity surveys compare the prices of goods in different countries and at their simplest level can help show whether one currency is undervalued against another.".
In simpler words it means that the chart simply compares the iPod price in different countries and the exchange rate between different currencies, not the real purchasing power of a standard salary.
I think there's something wrong here.
Here in Italy a 2Gb iPod costs 149€.
As of today 1€ is worth a little more than 1.30$.
It means that buying an iPod in italy costs around 114$ while the chart states that it would cost 192$.
I think that either they did something wrong or the Yahoo article is reporting a grossly oversimplified version of the parameters involved.
Oh, sure, there's also a slight chance that I did get everything wrong 😉
Eschatological Taxonomy
from Jamais Cascio's Open the Future weblog, through Warren Ellis' Blog:
He should absolutely get in touch with Exit Mundi and categorize every item on their list. My favourite still is the Bible's own Apocalypse with its multiple comebacks and delirious timeline.
Lifetype templates – reprise
During the new year bug squashing session we (Shah and I) managed, to check and fix some of the templates that had problems. We found the cause of the "<ul> error" that afflicted some of the themes (probably most of them are afflicted, but we fixed only the ones that only had that single error): when a link category had no links the template would create an <ul> with no <li> elements, causing a validation error. We had to add an IF smarty directive to check the presence of links and leave the whole <ul> out when it contained no links. We also added links back to noblogs and autistici or admin and album links to some of the templates that lacked them.
The list of validating templates has thus grown a little:
- blufill
- cab
- connections
- darkfire
- dots
- drove-all-night
- flower
- flyupsky-daytime
- flyupsky-evening
- gutenberg
- human condition
- innerscape
- mars-spirit
- minitemplate
- outback
- pink_lilies
- reic
- reic1
- ShadedGrey
- StreetCorner
- toni
- water_play
We chose to let user-modded templates untouched, so if you were using one of the templates that we corrected you may want to go back to their default version and reapply the changes you made, so you can take advantage of the fixes.
Unfortunately it looks like deleting existing templates can cause some troubles so the "they-give-you-motion-sickess ugly" ones are going to stay.
Unglyness is never out of fashion.
M
