10.11.04

Lightning Seeds

Posted in General at 2 pm

KNRK just played the Lightning Seed’s “Pure”.

This radio station is scary. I like it.

10.08.04

New at ThinkGeek

Posted in General at 8 pm

I (um… accidently!) clicked on a ThinkGeek banner at Slashdot and ended up finding lots of cool toys, but two that really stood out for me:

First up is this Macally Bluetooth Mini Mouse which might be the closest thing to the Bluetooth mouse I’ve been looking for. It may be too small though. It’s only 3.7″ long as opposed to the 4.3″ long
Pocket Mouse Pro Wireless from Kensington, which IMNSHO is the perfect balance between portable and comfortable. (Come on Kensington, get with the program.)

The other doodad is this USB to PS/2 Adapter which would be cool to have, simply because I keep seeing these cheap old keyboards that look like they’d be cool to try out on my Mac, but they’re all PS/2 port-based, which is a non-starter on my Macs. This specifically says that it’s Mac compatible, so it would be great to have around for this stuff.

Maybe someday. A couple more pieces of crap to add to the wish list, right?

10.03.04

Rapid Electric Movements

Posted in General at 10 pm

Michael Stipe demands ringtones for electric cars:

The idea came to Stipe when he nearly got totalled by a battery-powered vehicle in Los Angeles. He then experienced a blinding moment of clarity in which “I suddenly thought to myself: ‘This is going to be a big, big problem. People will be run over by electric cars all the time. They make no noise. No sound. They’re silent!”

Stipe quickly rejected the idea that electric jalopies should mimic the sound of a petrol-driven engine on the grounds that it would be “stupid”. “And then it struck me – ringtones,” he says. “People will program their car, as part of the insurance policy that states: ‘Don’t run people over with your silent car’, with ringtones.”

[Did anyone catch the double meaning in the title of this post? Yeah, I thought so.]

09.30.04

National Volcano Service

Posted in General at 10 pm

This is really pretty cool.

National Weather Service, Portland Oregon

“Mount St. Helens erupts? Just in case, you can follow NOAA’s current projection of ash. Also, the latest mountain data from the US Geologic Survey.”

I’ll take a volcano in the backyard over a hurricane any day of the week.

09.24.04

The Jefferson Syllabus

Posted in General at 12 am

Amy and I were discussing the reported anti-semitisim in Gibson’s Passion of the Christ and I was looking up some stuff on the The Jefferson Bible, and the site had this line, apparently from Jefferson,

“He pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.”

Nicely written.

09.23.04

GUI access to a shell command

Posted in General at 3 pm

Found this at Apple’s site:

Wrapping a Command Line Application with a GUI Interface:

“If you just need to run a shell script by double-clicking it, and have no need for a GUI, you can simply rename the shell script to end with .command and it will open in Terminal automatically.”

Not quite automatically, as I did have to modify the “Open With…” association, but at least I now have one click access to my qtplay music player, which saves me the GUI overhead of running iTunes.

Next up: a quick calendar display:


 > #! /bin/bash
 > cal

09.21.04

Stalker on the hunt

Posted in General at 7 pm

So I checked the error logs on a whim, and found this:

[Sep 21 17:51:00] [client 209.218.1.2]
File does not exist: /dwelling/images/haircut04.jpg
[Sep 21 17:50:53] [client 209.218.1.2]
File does not exist: /dwelling/images/haircut01.jpg

Ah, so someone was looking at my haircut pictures. But wait. They were poking around hard enough to try and find pictures I didn’t post. I posted haircut03.jpg and haircut06.jpg, but the other images aren’t on this site, they came from Amy.

But who was it? The hit came from an IP address owned by New Edge Networks. Trying to hit the IP address with a browser give me a sign-in dialog that may be part of an HP networking device of some sort.

Well, if someone is really interested in seeing my face, let me know and I’ll be more than happy to chat. (Still seems kinda weird though.)

09.20.04

Unexplained Downtime

Posted in General at 2 pm

http://www.ordersomewherechaos.com/uptime.txt returned “success”.

It was last reached by Uptime at 2004-09-20 07:07:40 (Eastern Time (New York)).

Currently our database thinks it is 2004-09-20 18:47:00.

In other words, your server has been unreachable for approximately 699 minutes.

—

Oh… well okay then.

09.17.04

Divs to the Center

Posted in General at 4 pm

From http://forums.devshed.com/t166611/s.html

[body style=”text-align: center;”]
[div id=”centered_div” style=”margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;”]
Foo
[/div]
[/body]

This should be cross platform compatible.

A Day Late, A Screen Shot Short

Posted in General at 10 am

From a client:

I passed the screen shots onto the training cd developer. So far, so good. At this point we need anything else, but I will know the status for sure as we keep working on the training cd.

Of course, it’s after the delivery of the screen shots that I find this…

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15966

which will create good sized screenshots in one fell swoop, instead of having to get 4 or 5 separate screen captures stiched together.