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I’ve made a leap back into helping develop the back end of the
themes.Wordpress.net theme viewer after a brief hiatus. Things are moving along so nicely. Alphaoide and Shadow have been doing some absolutely fantastic work, and I’m extremely pleased with how cool this project is. There’s a page set up to show you the feature/bug list and the changelog.
Our Brother SE-270D sewing/embroidery machine arrived yesterday, woot!
Here’s what was in the box, woot indeed!
Hey, look, it even embroiders into the wrong fabric, without stabilizer! Crapily! AMAZING!!
This is the backside of the cloth in the previous photo. Yuck.
Lots to like in this machine!! I’ll take some video and post it later tonight if I get a chance.
I can tell you right now that the new Treo just jumped the shark. Palm just jumped the shark. My treo 650 was the last great thing they ever did. As long as I can still get batteries for the next 3 years or so, that’ll be fine, all will be well in the world. But… putting a microsoft OS on your phone… what a horrible idea. The next phone I get ain’t gonna be a M$ device… count on it.
This is right where we’re at for conventions in new orleans. I can’t even comprehend what’s going on there. nola.com is the web version of the Times-Picayune newspaper. The photos are heartbreaking. Please go donate some money.
Wow, look at the public demand for iBooks in Henrico county! You’d think that would send a message to the school board. :-\ Would people stampede for used dells? Would they actually wet themselves for a dell? Yeah, no, I don’t think so.
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Wow. The first san jose grand prix was BAD ASS. We had a fantastic vantage point from the Adobe buildings. Here’s a movie of the opening of the race… and another movie from lower in the building. If you’re a glutton for punishment, you check out all the media I recorded from the day.
Check it out, Rudy Rucker has a post about the grand prix as well.
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Welp, I did my first useful thing with applescript today. I’m marking my calendar as a big day. It was "Connect to a remote server and specify a remote folder location", in addition to a script I located today to save email attachments from mail.app. Mail comes in with attachments, I have the script connect to the remote box, and save the files to a specific location. From there, I have other processes that tear the file apart, load it into a database, and do all kinds of other painfully band-aid-like-things that I probably wouldn’t need to do if we had any kind of common architecture, or… open systems. 
in case you’re curious:
mount volume "afp://my.server.com/Users" as user name "user" with password "pass"
And assume that everything’s case sensitive…
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Hey, I got the second podcast up, check it out over on the music blog: Some Sounds We Like 002 – Derek Scott of DoBox Recordings
My friend Chuck took me up on my offer to set up a blog for his trip to Thailand, go read up on it here!
Hoooooooly crap!!
Not including all the one-off websites I made back from 1996 or so, but starting from about 2001 or so, I started up a blog.. before they were really called blogs. In fact, I was using PHP-Nuke, then PostNuke, so there’s probably some posts that are older and turned into digital dust, long ago blown away with the winds of server changes.
Anyway, this is my 1000th post. I started noticing the counter getting into this range for the past month or so, and it kind of freaked me out a bit.
“The 1000th post should be something witty. Something important. Something profound.”
But as I crept up on it, I got more and more wrapped up in the idea of the 1000th post.
“The 1000th post MUST be funny, important AND profound.”
So, in order to take my mind off this, I started up a music blog and I made a more serious effort to do something with my fine art blog… I figured, hey, I’ve had some guest bloggers here, but my guest bloggers don’t really post too much, so what I’ve posted on my other blogs probably makes up for the number of guests posts on my main blog. It’s not so much important that I have precisely 1000 posts (although the counter says so) so much as it is a “neighborhood milestone” . Now it’s more like this:
“Wow, I’m in the neighborhood of 1000 posts on my blog!! What a milestone, sort of!”
So, Maybe not the most witty, important, and profound thing I’ve ever posted, but thanks for visiting, read on. 
I’ve figured out and turned on mod_rewrite and permalinks, so it will be interesting to see what happens to traffic post-google-dance… probably nothing spectacular, but, it’s always nice to be as searchable as possible.
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Most excellent. I just had a text chat with Olivier Gillet, of bhajis loops fame. What a nice guy. I’m planning on a podcast interview with him for my music blog, some sounds we like, probably in the august timeframe.
This is one SMART DUDE!! You don’t even know yet! Holy crap!
Technorati Tags: music, podcast, techno
Check it out, my man Jason E. points me to the Apple Distinguished Educator podcast blog at NECC! Very cool! Hey, here’s another page with more info: NECC Podcasting Marathon.
I’m starting to get pumped about all the cool stuff going on this year!!
Technorati Tags: NECC2005, podcast, education
For those keeping score, it’s official… I’ve been awarded a Bachelors Science degree in Business/Marketing. I received my official transcripts today, and my diploma is waiting for me at the local post office. I finished my last class January 2004, but procrastinated over a year before prepping for, and taking, the Humanities CLEP exam. Once I had those credits awarded, I was done… I shouldn’t have waited so long.
Next up, we’re expecting #2 in Sept. After that, I’ll start thinking about the GMAT…
