RasterWeb!Good gosh, how could I have not recommended Human Dog before!
You know those goofy viral videos that are sort of funny? Well, Human Dog is like that, only well done, with good production values, and what appears to be good writing, and it’s actually funny and… Ok, I suppose it’s nothing like those goofy viral videos, except that they are “video on the internet…” done right.
I ended up wasting too much time today trying to add a feature to a CMS I wrote a few years ago.
See, between the code, the templates, and the database, it passes an id to keep track of each piece of content. I had to add the ability to write out static text files for a Flash application to read in. (What, Flash can’t read data from MySQL yet? On a sidenote, I actually thought about adding a feature like this years ago as a file cache that would use includes rather than dababase hits. I might still do that, but anyway, back to our story…) The application uses the id, but not the path, which is what I needed. My first attempt added about 10 lines of code, but didn’t work due to the path variable not being there. After much thinking about the code I’d need to write, I finally realized I didn’t have to write any more code than the 10 lines I already wrote! I just needed to add one line to a template file to pass the path data as a hidden variable.
I like to keep things simple, and use GETs and POSTs whenever possible rather than cookies and session variables which always seem to cause problems in the apps I’ve been given to work on in the past…
Anyway, that feature is done, and it’s on to the next one…
Over the years I’ve tried a number of TO DO lists. Some running locally, some online, some that output OPML, or RSS or some other crazy thing, but they all required some sort of work, and they still were not in my face enough. I scrapped it all and went lo-tech…
I’ve moved all my tasks to my Simple GTD Board. There is a magic marker, bits of paper, pushpins, and a few labels. It’s a simple system, but aren’t those usually the best? It’s right above my left monitor, and I can’t walk into the office without seeing it, so it’s in my face pretty much all the time. No site to visit, no app to launch and keep running. Simple is better, right? Now, back to getting things done…
Sometime between now and April 26, 2006, please head over to the mke blog of the week contest and vote for tinkernet. I mean, if you feel like it. I just think it’d be nice for a videoblog to win. Ok, thanks…
I’ve got two old beige G3 Macs in the home office, which are mainly used by the kids. Since they’re Apple hardware running Mac OS X, they’re pretty solid, even though they’re going on 8 years of use…
So today one of them had some problems starting up. Blank screen. We rebooted a few times, tried to start from a CD, and then tried all those things again. Finally, we switched monitors and determined it was a monitor problem. I can fix Macs, but fixing monitors? I don’t do that.
We though all was lost, but if you’ve ever fixed things, you know the last (or sometimes first) method you can try is the old “hit it” method. I gave the monitor a quick smack on the top, and it came to life. Success! It’ll probably die soon, but for now, it’s working just fine…