April 2005
Ars Technica: John Siracusa reviews 10.4 Tiger...
I’m just going to copy what I wrote on HTmini
If you’re a regular reader of Ars Technica then you’ll definitely remember John Siracusa’s in-depth and delightfully technical reviews of OS X’s progression from Developer Preview 2 up til 10.4 today.
Just moments ago, Ars and John unveiled their 22-page (106 in PDF) review of new and changed stuff in 10.4 Tiger. You’re going to have to change...
Ars Technica Journals: Infinite Loop
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This is what’s been consuming 13% of my time over the past few weeks. I’ve been posting news to no one in particular. Just tonight the site, named Infinite Loop, has gone live! The “journals” are meant to be supplementary to the regular content on the front page.
You should probably just read Ken’s explaination of the goals for the Journals.
Oh yeah...
Cincinnati > Boston
So many good quotes from this article: We’re the Hub of the Universe, but Cincinnati is eating our lunch
‘’When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always 20 years behind the times.“ – Mark Twain
Charlotte Otto, global external relations officer at Procter & Gamble, said she was reluctant to come to Cincinnati to work for P&G after graduating from...
Smaller fountain
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I decided to take Vine street home today because its a bit more Photogenic than good ol’ Race street.
I stopped by fountain square and got a picture of one of the few smaller sculptures that circle...
Gigaom: Why T-Mobile Should Offer the iTunes Phone
A pretty good read, there’s obviously some things that Om is unaware of right now and so some of his pivotal claims are wrong (not all of us can work for T-mobile :D ) so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. That said, I personally don’t think that people would get the “iTunes phone” unless they could download songs over the air.
To me, anyway, I think that’d be the bigger selling point —...
I don't mean to be rude but...
I just recieved two forwarded messages from my Sister and I have a confession to make.
Not once have I ever read a message that was forwarded to me by anybody, unless it was important information that someone wanted to get to me.
My family (hi guys!) and some people I met in college have forwarded me cute little things all through college and I seem to keep getting them. I never reply and...
Cartoon Clint
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Yeah I know its old, but this tool is new and cooler and I saw it on Lauren’s blog!
Flickr: 704 Race
If anyone out there is getting Flickr friend requests from 704 Race, that’s us! I’m sending some phonecam pics to it now, so we’ll see how that works out :)
New Music I'm likin'
I checked out my “Reccomendations” at Audioscrobbler a week or two ago and began sampling music from those groups. AS looks at every song I listen to in iTunes and builds a profile of the music I like and at some point begins suggesting other bands I might like.
Well I tried that out and I found a few! However, by far the best I found was a band called My Chemical Romance ([iTunes link])
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Flickr!
Herschell has hooked us up with a flickr account! Wee! I’ve already got a Flickr plugin setup with iPhoto and I’m ready to go!
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Microsoft thinks you're a dinosaur
Wow, Microsoft seems to really be flailing around with their two new marketing endeavours:
Microsoft recently launched two ad campaigns to breathe new life into its flagship businesses, Windows and Office. The first, called StartSomething, tells customers to get Windows XP and begin a new journey using 2001 technology. The second, called Evolve, tells customers (represented as dinosaurs) to...
Catblogging 4/18/05 edition
Cats like dual G4’s:
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Got started early today!
Today started out with a bang. I’d just gotten cleaned up and dressed when I plopped down at my desk and saw someone mention that Adobe had purchased Macromedia. “gasp“, I thought to myself (you begin to think this way when you starting writing topical news on a regular basis).
This was somewhere around 7:20am. I began writing up the story somewhere’s else I can’t mention right now and...
Cat blogging
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Hey check this out:
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It's been quiet around here, sorry about that :)
I’ve been working on a lot of projects in my spare time, [HTmini], a new PHP/mySQL project for [Cincinnati Advance], not nearly as much Independent Eye stuff as I’d like, and of course some cool things at Ars Technica that I hope will see the light of day this week :)
Lets see, been working on some problems at work. Its a big balancing act to get network issues worked out, keep certain...
Hamilton County continues to lose population
The Enquirer is reporting that the 15-county Cincinnati Metro grew 2.4% last year, bringing us to a total of 2,052,372 people round these parts.
The bad thing is that Hamilton county (where the city of Cincinnati is located) is once again losing people at a pretty fast rate. In fact Hamilton county lost residents at the second-fastest rate of any large county in the U.S. (second only to San...
eJacqui == Pr0n
After reading Feministe… not safe for Sunday School I went to the URL to try plugging in some sites I knew of.
I plugged in phaedo.cx and it said “Arts/Entertainment”, Arstechnica was “Information Technology/Computers”, then I stuck in “eJacqui.com”:
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Bwahaha! :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRUTUS
YOU ARE ONE YEAR OLD!!!
Four years of Phaedo.cx
I just realised that My blog has been on the air for approximately 4 years now in some form! My first “post” was on April 6th, 2001.
Of course phaedo.cx has been around since late 1999, so I’ve had my own little corner on the net for nearly 6 years now!
Purdue: Rube Goldberg
The Rube Goldberg event and skeet shooting seem to be the only things Purdue teams can consistently win.
Slashdot: The complicated way to turn on a flashlight
Steak cuts
Finally, now I’ll know all the reasons a rib-eye is different from a New York strip!
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Men’s Journal: Raising the Steaks
Comment problems?
David mentioned to me today that he was having problems leaving comments. Is anyone else? I couldn’t reproduce it logged in or logged out.
Thanks in advance!
The tripod + obligatory cat pictures
Here is the tripod I mentioned in my earlier post
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here is a picture of Rameses being content:
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finally, here is a picture of Ramese being pissed because I’m shoving a camera and tripod in his face:
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and here is Brutus looking...
Simcity: <3
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I played this game obsessively on my Grandma’s old 486 computer that ran Windows 3.1
The 1UP blog has put together a crucial classics peice on the game that I found enjoyable.
Jason Kottke updates us on Micropatron funddrive
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Jason has posted a bit about how well he did with his 3 week funddrive to fund his new experiment — making a living off blogging. He made up a nice little graph and explained how the entire process went down.
Maybe someday I can make a post on my blog and have thousands of people give me enough money to live for a year without leaving my...
Cincinnati people: do I need to file a City of...
Or will I be alright? I know I paid 1.8% of my earnings last year (at my job in Cincinnati) right out of my paycheck. Do I need to do anything?
iTunes server, Taxes
I finally filed my federal taxes after FINALLY getting my Purdue W2 last week. Thanks for making it speedy, guys!
Also, remember when I was whining about wanting an iPhoto server that’d share out my albums to other computers running iPhoto. I wanted that functionality without having to load up the iPhoto behemoth on my iBook all the time.
No, no one has made it yet, but here’s a program...
Gmail, Hotmail: Scoble is a doofus
The doofus part was just to get Robert to read my post, although he does post some pretty silly things from time to time :)
In a recent post he made this comment near the end of his post where he thought most people wouldn’t see it:
Also, we already know that Gmail isn’t scalable. Ask Chris Uhlik. He runs the Gmail team. I did at O’Reilly’s Foocamp last year. Ask him why...
Our Sunday
Today we went down to Florence, KY to pickup some ink cartridges from Office Max and ended up buying:
a non-functioning laserjet toner cartridge (didn’t fit quite right, returning)
a camera tripod from Best Buy
We also caught a glipse of [the Mac Mini’s at Best Buy]:
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While down in Florence we took a trip over to Will Read’s place to...
Beautiful weather
Yesterday me and Jacqui went up to Dayton, OH because she had a TFP shoot up there. The weather was awesome!
She got to get some pics taken outside and I think the locations were pretty cool. The area of town is called the [Oregon district]. It was pretty quaint and had a lot of cool bars and little shops.
It also turns out that the Oregon district is one of the neighborhoods covered by...
Lickr = Flickr - Flash
If there’s one thing that’s annoying its waiting for Flash to load up on a flickr page just so I see a picture of someone’s cat. It also gets a little boggy when I try loading up more than one instance of Flickr.
Well this fine human being name Neil used Firefox, Greasemonkey and AJAX to [rip out those annoying flash files and replace them will full functional images and annotations using only...
Battlestar Galactica in HD
Psst, Battlestar Galactica is going to be rerun in HD starting tomorrow (4/10/2005)!
Weird dream involving David
My friend David and my friend Jessie are probably the only two people I’d call friends that I still talk to from High School.
Last night I had a weird dream that kinda involved David, but in a weird tangential way. One of the times I went back to Kansas, David was working for his Dad, overseeing the construction of a house. I went out there to meet up with him, he showed me the whole thing...
PHP: include or require
In PHP there are two ways to bring in code from external files. In fact its a pretty good practice to do so. There are many reasons but the major one is that it can drastically clean up nasty looking spaghetti code.
Consider the following example. This is basically a proxy script that takes in a URL parameter called “type” and dynamically loads chunks of PHP depending on its value. Not...
Never wash your face in a stream
From BoingBoing which claims to be a directory of wonderful things, but today grossed me out:
A woman who washed her face in a stream while hiking went to her doctor to complain of nosebleeds and nasal obstructions. Turned out, she has a LEECH IN HER NOSTRIL. And not just in her nostril. She had a leech partly in her nostril and PARTLY IN HER SINUS CAVITY. They had to anesthetize the leech and...
New iPod, Bella of Cincinnati, Little Shop of...
Just to recap today real quick:
I’m currently in the possession of a new 4th generation 40GB iPod. The improvement is great. Clicky wheel, better clicky sound. I need to update the firmware, but otherwise, PERFECT! I can even fit all my music on there now ;)
We went out to a downtown restaurant tonight called [Bella]. It is located at the corner of 6th and Walnut. It was great...
BoingBoing: What's your personal video game...
BoingBoing has a post up on their site, based on an email from someone doing research. They’re looking for people to expose their video game history. I thought it was interesting, so here I go:
Atari 2600
Hide n Seek
Basketball
Pacman
ET (yeah, I know…)
Air-sea battle
Asteroid
Nintendo Entertainment System
Mario Bros/Duck Hunt (obviously)
A boy and his...
Apple moves 320 spots, now 442nd biggest company...
Forbes has put out its annual Top 2000 report, ranking the 2,000 biggest companies in the world. One of the most notable improvers from last year’s report is Apple Computer. Last year, according to the Forbes report, Apple ranked just 762nd and this year sits at 442nd. Why the huge change in ranking? URI: Apple moves 320 spots, now 442nd biggest company in the world
By Clint Ecker, duh!
Jeremy Zawodny: minor mySQL specialist
This comic made me laugh, I dunno why, but it did. I gues you had to be there (on the Internet), click for a bigger version:
Comic is from Mobile Phone Fan
HTmini: Review of Waterfield's Mac Mini SleeveCase
Just wanted to point everyone to [a review I just finished up]. Lots of cool pics too:
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Waterfield Bags launched a SleeveCase designed specifically for the Mac Mini within weeks of the official Apple announcement. In its default configuration as I received it, the SleeveCase is merely what it claims to be, a case into which a Mac Mini will fit....
Tegan & Sara: I was walking with the Ghost
A cool group and song I came across, check it out
Firefox nightlies are sufficiently cleaned up
Usually I’m a big fan of downloading a new nightly of Firefox every few days to keep up on the newest fixes. However, after the devs merged Firefox back into the Mozilla trunk there have been a crapload of bugs that have made me hesitant to mess around with them.
I subscribe to a blog called The Burning Edge that tracks which major bugs have been fixed in the latest builds, what stuff is still...
More Nifty Corners: Pure CSS rounded boxes
I mentioned the Nifty Corners technique a week or two ago for making rounded boxes completely in HTML, CSS, and Javascript — no images required. The author has refined the technique a bit:
Adding support for IE 5.5
Now works on XHTML pages served at application/xhtml+xml
Improved error detection
You can now choose which border to round and which to keep pointy
Borders!
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Dreamhost pimpage
Dreamhost now offers MediaWiki as a one-click install. Woo!
Google Maps has Satellite View
Wowza
The imagery for Cincinnati is horrid! This is the best you can get:
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My Spacebloom Book
I wrote last week that I’d won a prize for being one of the Micropatrons in Kottke’s grand experiment.
I finally recieved my prize, a very cool hardcover book entitled Spacebloom: A field guide to cosmic Xflora
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The book is chock full of beautiful graphics, charts, graphs and pictorials. Its got a technical and sometimes funny imagined future where...
David Chaney has a blog
David in Kansas plink
Herschell a.k.a. DJ Special Dark is podcasting his...
Jacqui and my friend Herschell has begun podcasting his weekly mixes at his website
Here’s the first one!
Is he the first podcasting DJ? Guess we’ll find out soon enough ;)
Hey Hersh don’t forget to ping audio.weblogs.com :)
P.S. To get your mp3’s to show up as enclosures in Wordpress 1.5+ just upload them somewhere and then just insert a normal HTML link to that mp3 in your post. ...
New NetNewsWire builds!
Yay! I’m stealing this quote from The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Ranchero software today released a new version of NetNewsWire 2.0 beta 37 and NetNewsWire Lite. New Features include Tag subscriptions, for easily subscribing to tag feeds from Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Technorati, Syncing between multiple NNW installations on multiple machines (via .mac or FTP), and — my personal favorite of the...
Wichita trip round-up [with pics!]
Here’s a quick recap of our jaunt to Wichita, KS, in pictures:
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Finally met my 5-month-old half-sister
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Finally met my parent’s new cat Inipi
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Saw a hippo at the Sedgwick County Zoo
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Saw a funny orangatang at...