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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.