February 2005
Switch-Case February 2005 Zeitgeist
Its that time of the month again!
Feb 01 – Feb 28
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Appcasting — the next big thing
Probably the simpliest way to push application updates to your users. If you know what podcasting is, think about Appcasting for a moment.
If you don’t know what Podcasting is, read this and then think about distributing application updates and patches to your customers using the same underlying technology.
Think about having the newest version of your favorite program (i.e. Netnewswire,...
GeoURL, where have you been!
GeoURL is back! and they’ve got a blog
You use to have to go find your lat and long yourself but now they have an awesome form that’ll find out all the information for you and even generate the meta tags for you!
I found so many cool blogs back when I was at Purdue via GeoURL (like [Feministe.us])
So if you’ve redesigned your blog and removed the GeoURL tags, go put them back in, and long...
Wedding happy fun time
Jacqui, Me, Steve, Kari
This is both the stupidest and funniest thing I've...
Basically, Microsoft’s new anti-spyware tool thinks Firefox is a HIGH RISK to your computer because it lacks security updates!!!!!!!!!
Yes, it did require nine exclaimation points. Yeah its probably a fake too, but its still funny…shut up :)
We had so much fun at the wedding!
We had tons of fun! Excellent food, laughing, I had some wine ( I hate wine, wtf? ) but I’m alright now, and dancing. Speaking of dancing:
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Pray you never experience this in person!
More pics if you wanna live out your wedding fantasies through some pics we took at someone elses’ wedding :)
Hot-t-t
Sci-Fi Channels offers free download of Battlestar...
Just read this over at slashdot and I know that a few people read my blog that love Battlestar as much as I do :)
The season’s been over in the UK for a while now and I’ve watched all of those episodes so I’m done for this season (and [patiently awaiting this summer]).
Well now the Sci-fi channel is offering the first episodes of the first season for download (in realmedia format) from...
Back in Chicago
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We just arrived here in Chicago after driving 5 hours immediately after getting out of work today. I thought it was going to suck like the other long drives I’ve had to do lately for work, but driving with Jacqui is probably the funnest times I have ever had sitting in one spot and starting at farmland :)
We sing and laugh and gossip about...
World's largest cheeto
A forum poster (Steve Yun) in the Lounge at the Ars Technica forums thinks he’s found the World’s largest cheeto
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Just you wait 1 week and this story will be all over CNN !! :)
The bacon MUST FLOW
Well not flow…literally. Liquid bacon would be kinda gross, especially if they made it a Gatorade flavor :-X
Speaking of bacon, here’s a [weblog devoted entirely to bacon]! bacontarian.com grapples with tough issues such as “Is bacon ever a side dish?”, “Bacon and egg sandwiches”, and “Bacon, bacon and more bacon”
Via Kottke
Battlestar this summer
SCI FI Channel announced that the second season of its hit original series Battlestar Galactica will premiere this summer with 20 new episodes, after earlier confirming their commitment to the show. Production will resume in March in Vancouver, B.C., with the entire ensemble cast returning, along with executive producer and writer Ronald D. Moore and executive producer David Eick. Averaging over...
Amua: A last.fm controller for OS X and a plug for...
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If you’re a paying member over at Audioscrobbler and Last.fm then you know how absolutely cool the Last.fm personal radio station is :)
Audioscrobbler is a web-serivce that tracks what artists and songs you listen to and builds an online profile of what kind of music you like. This is done by installing a plugin for your music player of choice (they...
How to protect your T-Mobile voicemail
Kevin Rose reported this morning about the T-mobile voicemail vulnerability and has since redacted (because he posted a full MP3 of Hilton’s voicemail online) the post that looked something like this:
The hack is a simple one that I duplicated easily. If you have Sprint or T-Mobile and have auto voicemail login enabled, you are vulnerable to this type of attack. I have auto voicemail login...
Best knife block ever
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Unfourtnately you can never buy it. Stupid artists >:[
(Via [Gizmodo]).
3CDC is kewl OR Cincinnati has the unique...
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Wow! Talk about a long title ;) An article in the Cincinnati Post today has gotten me very excited about the possibilities coming up within the next year for the place me and Jacqui call home. We both live at 7th & Race and while there are a number of very cool places to go eat downtown, much of the night life is several blocks north and to the...
Tacky, sure. Bored, absolutely.
I saw this quiz over on Jacqui’s blog so I decided to take it :) You’ll notice we got the exact same score!
Your Brain is 53.33% Female, 46.67% Male
Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female
You are both sensitive and savvy
Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed
But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve
What gender is your brain?
Paris Hilton got hacked because she's stupid; big...
If you’re famous and everyone in the world knows what your dog’s name is because you parade it all over TV, then its not very wise to use “What is your favorite pet’s name” as the secret question on websites. It turns out that Paris was using her dog’s name ‘Tinkerbell’ as the answer to these secret questions and anyone in the world was able to alter her password and gain access to her...
Getting a MCSE hurts your salary
The title is a little misleading, but this article is a pretty interesting read. Its all about how certifications, Microsoft certifications in particular, affect your salary. They also look into some other variabled that have an effect (job title, experience) but the main focus is on certs.
According to MCPmag’s 2004 survey of 5,000 MS cert holders: people who hold “Any MSCE”...
Audioscobbler/Last.fm Album Cover Montage
A collage of album art from my most oft played albums courtesy of [Last.fm]:
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My Last.fm Profile My Audioscrobbler Profile
(Via [Plasticbag.org]).
IRAN
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I said back in January that I thought we’d be attacking and occupying parts of Iran within the next 3 years. If the blurbs coming out of the White House are any indication, then we can expect to be invading even sooner!
Quotes, dates and links taken from the linked article above
Feb 22, 2005: “This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack...
Andrea on CSI:Miami March 7, 2005
Update: The episode got pushed back to March 7th
I feel like I’m quickly becoming the lone member of the Andrea Silvers internet fan club :P
I posted about her appearance on Will & Grace last month and I guess I’m now the top hit when you search for her name on Google:
Anyways she emailed me (or someone emailed me for her):
Don’t forget to watch Andrea on CSI Miami next Monday...
MiniApache
MiniApache – A pared version of Apache for use on versions of Windows, NT and up. There’s even a version that supports PHP.
The fileset has been brought down to the bare minimum required for decent functionality and subsequently the file size has too. The config files are simple to understand and edit for yourself.
Double snaps!!
10:45:44 -> Jacqui: rofl 10:45:55 -> Jacqui: did you know that your website is the 2nd hit when you search for “oh snaps”? :P 10:46:07 -> Clint: lol 10:46:44 -> Jacqui: and my site is like the 6th 10:47:43 -> Clint: lollers
yes we IM each other across the apartment :P
Lexingon Ars Meet
This is my uh…6th Ars meet? (Indy x 3, Purdue meet, Chicago, and Lexington). Its the seventh if you throw in the mini meet we had with Jon and Elle [last month], and they just keep getting better!
Last night we met up with about 10 people from the Ars fora and ate dinner at a local restaurant (chain?) called Cheddar’s. We had to wait about 20 or 30 minutes to get a table. The...
Mark this day
February 20th,2005: Clinton Ecker’s 24th birthday and the day Paris Hilton’s Sidekick II pics and address book/notes get pasted all over the internet
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A whole bunch of stuff crammed into one post
Its my birthday tomorrow! I turn 24, I am very old now ;D
I’m going to Lexington tonight with Jacqui for an ars meet. Our friends elle and jon will be there as well as some other people we know on Ars
Cincinnatiblogs.info
I’ve updated some things on the Cincinnatiblogs Planet Aggregator to make it a bit more usable. No, I haven’t changed the fugly design yet, but I’ve linked up the...
Consider me officially freaked out
Miss McDonald
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Enclosure testing
I’ve been informed that Wordpress 1.5 has enclosure support but I can’t find anything about it in the documentation. So I’m thinking that it might be one of those “it just works” things ;)
So I’m linking to an MP3 and I’m going to check and see if its added as an enclosure in my RSS 2.0 feed.
Update: Hmmmm, doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas, smart people? :) I’ll probably end up grepping...
Transmit 3.0
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Transmit 3 is Out! I was a beta tester on this release and it was very fun and very enlightening. Panic is awesome and relentless in their testing and quality control. When the first beta arrived, it was in pretty awesome condition. Over the next few months they probably fixed hundreds of tiny annoyances and issues that people found.
In fact I...
Super secret Wordpress download counter
http://wordpress.org/download/counter/
As seen in the photos taken at the WP 1.5 upgrade party last night. (Wordpress is the software which powers this blog)
Has version 1.5 really only been downloaded 11,000 times?? The picture that indicated 6,000 downloads above was supposedly taken before it was even released!
Knives
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We got these knives custom made by one of Jacqui’s clients for whom she was doing some custom logo work for. He made us these knives in compensation for the work she was doing and they are seriously some awesome knives.
He made for us a 6”(?) Santoku knife and 6”(?) filet knife that we’ve been getting some real good use out of!
More...
The weather is beautiful in Cincinnati
Today is the kind of day you wish would be around all year long. The weather is perfect, like March in San Francisco. People are out in the streets yelling, talking, hanging out on the street corners.
It’s the slightest bit chilly in the shadow of a big building and pleasantly warm when you stand in the sunlight! The wind is blowing gently through the big windows in our apartments and...
IE7 Announced for Windows XP and Longhorn
Looks like the team is finally talking [blogs.msdn.com] about where and when we’ll be seeing IE7.
The team mentions that IE7 will be coming out in beta form this summer (Q305 I suppose) and will just have a bunch of security fixes I guess. No mention of features, no mention of bringing their browser inline with existing standards: CSS2, XHTML, PNG Transparency. You know, the stuff people...
Wordpress 1.5 released
Wouldn’t you know it, just when I upgrade to 1.5 using a CVS version they come out with a stable release.
Also, the new Six apart website design is up , looks neat :)
Updated: The new look is actually across all of their sites, so check them all out I guess ;)
Typepad MovableType Livejournal Professional Network
FlySketch
Flysketch 1.0 is out. It was written by Gus Mueller, creator of Voodoo Pad, so you know its going to be awesome.
Basically it lets you position the flysketch window (which has a transparent frame over anything (website in safari, terminal window, photoshop, ANYTHING)) and then draw, highlight, and annotate and capture all of that into an image that you can drag and drop for documentation or...
Spent the day in Indianapolis
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I am really getting tired of riding around the tri-state area. First I spent 12 hour going to and from Chicago and today I spent four hours riding to and from Indianapolis today for a meeting involving every engineer, technician, and manager in the Cincinnati/Indianapolis area.
The meeting was pretty cool, except the environmental system was making me...
Lightweight, free spreadsheet app for OS X
Does such a thing exist? I don’t care about interoperability, I just want something quick and free and with a minimum of spreadsheet functionality (cell, formulas, MAYBE sheets)
Update: I did a google search and found one! [BC Spreadsheet]!
Looks like it does what I want:
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Update: Nevermind, I need that cool excel feature where you can start...
New threads
Me and Jacqui went shopping today (she returned some stuff, I bought some stuff)
I bought a T-shirt:
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and a pair of shoes:
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Mapping Google Maps
An interesting article explaining how Google Maps work. I read this article on my cell phone during the boring training this past week and I wanted to link it up here, but forgot.
So there it is :)
Battlestar Galactica renewed for second season
Excellent!!!
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SCI FI Channel has ordered a second season of its hit series Battlestar Galactica, which has aired five episodes of its first season of 13 episodes. Details of the renewal — including which cast members will return, how many episodes will be produced and when the second season will commence — were still being worked out at press time.
URI: SCI FI Renews...
Andrea Silvers on Will and Grace
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My dad called me up yesterday and said that he’d heard that someone I went to high school with was going to have a short part on Will and Grace last night. He probably remembered her name because she scratched my Festiva and we had to do this whole thing with her parents to get reimbursed for the damages.
Anyways, I got a cap of the...
Boring training, long car rides
Well I went through our training yesterday. I can honestly say that I got nothing out of it that I didn’t learn in the OLS class I had to take in college. We did the personality test (DiSC) and then talked about it.
We went over mood elevators, results cones, broken squares and value pyramids. blech
The class was 8 hours long and I was bored to tears for 7.5 of them. The second worst...
Safe and Sound in Chicago
I’m happy to post that I’ve safely arrived and am posting from the wifi network in the lobby of the Clarion near O’Hare. A long boring drive I’ve seen a million times before and I was spent, I fell asleep in my hotel room.
I was awakened to go eat with the guys from Indy and Cinci at Outback and now here I am ;)
iBook Battery, I love you
I’ve got my screen dimmed down to one-notch, Airport turned off, Bluetooth is on because that’s how I’m getting online, processor speed set to reduced, and the hard-drive is set to spin down when deemed OK. I’ve been using my computer for almost 3.5 hours now and I’ve got just under 2 hours remaining on the battery! :)
This is because I never use the battery on my iBook its connected to its...
Google updates their image index
ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME. I’m seriously tired of thousands of 404’s from people searching for ‘ipod mini’ on google images hitting my site everyday looking for a picture I deleted over a year ago!!
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Google Image Search is now worth 1 trillion, 187 billion, 63 million words. Yes, that’s right, math majors; we’ve updated our image index, and...
Google maps
I checked out Google Maps this morning and its freaking awesome. DHTML zooming and panning that makes your mouth water. Printing the directions didn’t seem to work so well though.
One minor think I thought could be worked on. If I pick an address like 312 Elm St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 it shows me the pushpin in the right place, it then asks me if I want to get directions TO or FROM that...
On the way to Chicago
I was hoping I could’ve made this post from my desk this morning but it really didn’t pan out that way! I was rushed out the door because one of the switch guys at work called me while I was getting ready and told me I needed to get to work right away!! like it was some sort of huge emergency.
Well I rushed to pack everything and hurried to work and it was a non-issue because our vendors were...
Pathetic, McDonald's sets up fake blog
It’s supposed to go along with its stupid Abraham Lincoln french fry commercial that sucked so much during the superbowl. Here is a link to the fake blog
iPod Shuffle RAID
Quite possibly the coolest looking RAID setup ever:
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