Amen, kitteh.
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(Actually, I was spared from today’s dronefest. Next one’s Thursday, though.)
Read more...Rock Band has “Won’t Get Fooled Again”?! Holy crap. We really need to finish tour mode.
Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again
Remember my earlier rant about karaoke song quality? Definitely doesn’t apply to Harmonix. In fact, now that I know just how hard it is to get the rights to these songs and get the lyrics and timings right, I appreciate them a lot more.
(I’m also appreciating The Who more.)
Read more...Akismet is doing a good job blocking blog spammers, but now and again I’ll get a registration from a .de address or someone named “Nataljia” or so forth. I’m getting so I automatically delete these users without a second thought.
It must suck to be an Eastern European geek… You try to post an honest question, and everyone automatically assumes you’re a spammer…
Read more...Jotted this dream to myself in the wee hours of the morning...
The baby woke me up about 2:40 AM, so I can recall the dream I was having… Diana, Judy and I are all living on some kind of air platform with a whole city-full of other people, and the bottom level was about to fall off. I was scrambling to get my company’s data backed-up to CDs, including data for some game a co-worker was working on, so it wouldn’t be lost.
Read more...So I’m at the gas station and on top of each of the pumps is an LCD TV, it looks like 720P resolution, provided by pumptoptv.com. It looks a little bit hardened against vandalism, but I can’t believe that it’s not going to get trashed within a couple of weeks. It shows advertisements and local traffic and stuff, the traffic at least is cool. But I’m not sure who accepts the repair bills, whether it’s PumpTop TV or the gas station.
Read more...Got a phone call from my Mom this morning to let me know the photo of my niece wasn’t visible - to everyone besides me. Guess I had a little too much faith in Flock; I thought it would save the image and then upload it to Wordpress, but it just linked it from my GMail account (to which I have access but no one else does). It’s also crapping Technorati tags all over my entries instead of using Wordpress categories. I may be reverting to Firefox soon.
Read more...Who Needs Nozbe?
So I experimented with Nozbe for a while and then discovered that its main benefit was the next actions list, which could just as readily be replicated with a next tag in Gmail.
So I’ve got everything I can do as a next action on the Next tag there, and my Nozbe account sits unused. Guess I don’t need to spend that $5 a month.
Read more...Flock Browser - Supported Services | Flock
Trying out Flock’s “blog this” functionality. Here’s a link to the services they support:
Flock Browser - Supported Services | Flock <p style="font-size:10px;text-align:right;">Tags: applications</p>
Read more...Flickr Interestingness and image integration...
Here’s “blog this” applied to an image…
Finally, blog printing!
I really didn’t understand why blog-to-book would be so hard… Blurb’s Booksmart blog slurper was cumbersome at best and incompetent at worst, and the only other competitor in the field closed up shop a couple years ago.
Well, Qoop has rolled out BlogPrinting.com, and so far it Just Works. I know their site looks like it was made to harvest passwords, but enter your info and you’ll be treated to a nicely-formatted PDF preview of your blog in book form, complete with embedded images, in about 3 minutes. My <pre> tags (meaning all my code snippets) all got wrapped into a messy blob, but most folks don’t use those. Posts marked private are included (a good thing for me), but you could probably filter them by setting up a special login for the site to use.
Price is quite reasonable, too: $22 for a 379-page 6x9 book in black and white. (For gods’ sake, don’t leave it on color (the default), it was $120 for the same book.) I’ll follow up when I actually get the book, but so far this is really nice.
WordPress, Movable Type, and TypePad are all supported for now. Not sure if my LiveJournal friends can use the Movable Type option, but if not, drop me a line and I’ll walk you through exporting to WordPress.
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