Have you checked out the O’Reilly Radar lately?
Tag overload!
Or as I like to call it: tags gone wild!
It’s like Web 2.0 on steroids!
Just over a year ago we wondered if Garmin Hates Macs? and at the time, it seemed they did.
Has anything changed? Supposedly on January 10, 2006 they announced GPS Product Support for Mac OS X. Cool! Though they might want to update their FAQ, which says “Garmin does not support Macintosh computers at this time and does not have Macintosh software or connectors available” to match the above statement.
Honestly I don’t know what the Garmin statement means yet, I may have to ask the macmap Yahoo! Group to decipher it.
Update: See Garmin’s Mac Outpost in the Desert… and the Garmin Blog: Apple/Mac category.
I started toying around with Amazon S3, looking at the some of the code samples and just trying to get an idea of what I might be able to do with it…
Matt Croydon uses it to backup Flickr photos, and I’m sure others will come up with neat ideas, as well as working code do to some very cool things. Give them hackers some time, I think this will be big.
So far I’ve done little more than make some buckets, put files, and get files, but eventually I’ll probably dig into the Perl or PHP code a bit more and see what I can come up with. Thanks Amazon!
I finally got around to uploading all of the Buried songs from "Leaders, Machines, and Lies", and they are now at Ourmedia in the popular MP3 format.
You can also find them linked at milwaukeehardcore.net’s Buried page, which contains plenty of other info about Buried and the other bands of the time. What is milwaukeehardcore.net you ask? Well, it is…
…an attempt to document the Hardcore & Punk Rock scene that existed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and surrounding areas) during the 1980’s and 1990’s…
It’s also a wiki, so we’ve had a lot of people filling in the holes in our memories…
The Buried songs are all released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so you are free to do with them what you will within the confines of that license. (If you have other needs, please contact me.) Oh, one song is not licensed as such, but has a traditional copyright. Where Have All The Flowers Gone? was written by Pete Seeger, and the rights holder is Fall River Music, Inc. I’m 98% sure it’s ok to publish this song, based on what I’ve read at Ourmedia and elsewhere. (Buried has not existed for over 10 years and gains no value from this song being made available.) I will admit though, dealing with cover songs and traditional copyright is a pain…
It’s Day #1 with Mozilla Lightning, and so far, so good!
I’ve stopped using Sunbird on one of my computers and am now using Lightning with Thunderbird. The big news is, alarms work! They never did in Sunbird, and a crazy Perl hack with cron job was all that did alarms and alerts for me previously…
Don’t get me wrong, Lightning needs work, but I’m hoping it gets the attention it needs and keep getting better. I’d start with adding in all the features Sunbird has that Lightning doesn’t.
See Also: Mozilla Lightning
If you’ve followed this weblog for a long time you’ll know I’ve mentioned my experiences with Mozilla Calendar, or more accurately, Mozilla Sunbird. It’s good to see people interested in Lightning.
Lightning has a way to go, but it’s a good start. I’ll be testing it as a replacement for Sunbird, and I’ll let you know what I come across in the process… MozillaZine already has some good comments about Lightning.
I’ve been meaning to try Ruby on Rails, not because I like Ruby, or even use Ruby, but the Rails framework is supposed to be the big payoff there. But now there’s CakePHP (and other frameworks) that try to do the RoR thing in PHP.
So far I’ve just worked through the CakePHP Wiki’s blog_tutorial_-_1, which all made sense, though I was very disappointed to see GET’s deleting data… Didn’t we learn this is bad? (GET and HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval) In the apps I build, the ‘delete’ is typically a GET request to a page that then does a delete via a POST. That might not be perfect, but it works, and adds a confirmation to data deletion that most users seem to appreciate. (Ok, it looks like there is a Javascript confirmation at delete with the blog_tutorial_-_1 code, but in my opinion, that isn’t enough.)
Other than that little data deleting issue, CakePHP looks interesting, and I’ll dig in a bit deeper and see what it can do.
In Extreme Snoring I suggested you might want to use the recording to “annoy the neighbors” or some such nonsense. Well, today I got an email:
I just had to say thanks for the snoring sample. Its a work of art and couldnt have been found at a more opportune time for me. I am having probs with the neighbor and they just refuse to stop being a-holes and just leave me alone. On top of that the neighbor lady has a bad snoring problem, so bad I swear she is in the bed with me. She seems to think that the walls are super thick and no sound goes thru but she is wrong and thanks to your snoring sound sample I look forward to letting the neighbor know just how well sound travels. Thanks again and have a good one. :)
I’m glad my ailment could be of use to someone. I may have to record more of the annoying sounds I make. (There are many!)
I afford myself few luxuries in life, but one thing I don’t skimp on is yogurt. We eat only Stonyfield Farm’s Yogurt here at RasterWeb World HQ and we make no apoligies for that…
But last week something happened. While enjoying a nice cup of strawberry yogurt, I found a small leaf shaped thingy. I was a bit concerned, and immediately went to their contact page to let them know what happened.
Later in the day I got an email apology, and a note about some coupons they were going to be sending me. Hooray for Stonyfield! I’m guessing I’m not the only fan, as 1/2 the time I stop by the supermarket, they are low on supply. Keep up the good work Stonyfield!
I used Interarchy back when it was Anarchie, and I even bought two version of 6.2 years ago, and sometimes I use them! (Mostly I used the command line for scp and sftp, but now and then, a graphical client is nice.)
Anyway, I was dismayed after trying it on one of my Macs (still running Mac OS X 10.3.9) to see it didn’t work. It would not connect to servers using sftp. I took a quick look around and found an Interarchy Users Group that had two posts that seemed to mention the problem I was having. The weird thing was, command line sftp was fine, but Interarchy was not. I tried Fugu and that did the right thing… puzzling…
I then remembered that I upgraded ssh last year. Aha! It seems Interarchy was using /usr/bin/ssh and not /usr/local/bin/ssh. A quick symlink set everything right.
If you need a graphical client, Interarchy is very nice. The copies I bought were dirt cheap years ago due to some expo special or something. If you want free, Fugu is pretty nice too…
We’ve got an internal wiki, which now holds tons and tons of valuable information. Recently navigation links were added to many pages, offsite things, other stuff, etc. and I realized that this was probably done for the “common user” and by that I guess I’m calling myself the “uncommon user” which seems odd, because I’m sure I’m one of the top two people who have created and edited pages, and pretty much always have at least one tab open with a wiki page loaded.
My own wiki usage in finding (not creating) pages consists of two things: the Recent Changes page and searching. I hit Recent Changes to see what is new, and do a search for almost everything else. All the sidenav links are wasted on me, and actually pushed the two features I used the most (Recent Changes and searching) way down the page. Argh… It makes me feel all 37signalish and almost makes me want to focus the wiki’s usability on me. (I know better than those pesky users, right?)
Did the WordPress Upgrade, expect breakage…
So far, I’ve managed to fix my feeds (WordPress ships with broken feeds) and work around some wacky rewrite issues, but there are still bits and pieces here and there that may not work, so be advised…
Crud! Plugin breakage as well. :(
Web Designers: Do you think I have super vision?
You are probably under 30 years of age. Your eyes are still good. Some of use do not have good eyesight. Please do not make the type so freaking small. (Luckily, most browsers can deal with this problem quite easily. I just increase the font size. Of course that usually breaks your layout. sigh…)
Web Developers: Why must you take the lazy approach?
Some things are just not that hard. At least that’s how it seems to me, which either means I’m a pretty amazing developer, or you just plain suck. Or somewhere in between. Either way, try not to suck so much…
I guess what I’m really saying is that I need to beat some designers and developers with a cluestick. Repeatedly.
I just donated money to the following open-source projects: Scuttle, Adium, XAMPP, and WordPress…
See? Ads aren’t all bad…
(Oh don’t worry, I didn’t give it all away, I also renewed my Flickr pro account.)
Hopefully, I’ll be able to donate at least a little bit to various open-source projects that I like every month or so. Is your blog making money from advertising? If so, would you consider doing the same?
There is much handwringing over Creative Commons. Is it broken? What is commercial use? Opinions differ, discussion goes on…
Meanwhile, over at Flickr, there is talk of Schmaps trying to use CC-licensed photos.
My gosh, it’s like Movable License all over again! What constitutes “commercial use” anyway? Google ads? Amazon affiliate links? PayPal donate buttons?
The sad thing is, unless the parties involved can agree, it will probably take a court of law to determine such things, and if that is the case, then it’s really simple: The side with the most money/best lawyers wins.
