RasterWeb!

I had forgotten that long ago I helped beta test TypePad… When I recently tried to log in, it showed my account as suspended, but had an offer for some discount codes… Here’s the text I got:

As our thanks for taking the time to help beta test, we’re offering you the chance to share the savings of a 20% lifetime discount with twenty of your friends and family members. We really appreciate the community that has formed during testing and we hope that it continues to thrive as the service grows.

They gave me twenty keys to apply when signing up with TypePad, and since I don’t even know twenty people without weblogs, they are up for grabs… (I assume they are still good. I think TypePad came out of beta a few years ago!) Just reply in the comments or contact me and I’ll send you one. (Include your email address obviously!)

Well, I did learn that when digitizing video, do not create a file over 2 gigs in size, since that won’t import into iMovie (at least the version I have installed!)

Anyway, after much importing and compressing (and a little editing) we have the first video from the Madison Zombie Lurch 2005, which I last mentioned days ago…

I’ll get more footage online next week, and I’ll try to get it loaded at Ourmedia as well as at blip.tv…

I remember hearing about XAMPP a while back, but since I finally decided to do something about the old Fedora box at home with Apache, and an old MySQL, and no PHP, etc… I figured I’d give The Apache Friends’ XAMPP a try…

Can I say wow? After downloading, the install consisted of expanding the tarball into /opt, and then starting it up. So within minutes you’ve got Apache (with SSL!) MySQL, PHP, Perl, and other stuff that all works together!

Damn that’s cool… Thanks Apache Friends!

It started like any other day in Madison… until…

“What do we want?”
“Brains!”
“When do we want them?”
“Brains!”

As I mentioned in Shooting Zombies, I went to Madison, I saw the Zombies, they ate my brain… I’ve got a few photos on Flickr which aren’t that good, but that’s because I was also holding a video camera while trying to take pictures… (Video will be up soon.)

Zombies are everywhere:

• Zombie Lurch: aftershocks (From Madolan, the person to blame for the whole thing.)
• Zombies descend on State Street – Set One
• More on Madison Zombie Lurch: photos, video and links
• Chris Kailhofer: Zombie Lurch, State Street, 22 Oct 2005
• Jacquelyn’s Multiply Site: Zombie Lurch 2005!
• abmstudios.com photos
• This Zombie Revolution Will Be Televised
• Zombie Lurch 2005
• slashdot | Zombie Lurch (News for Nerds?)
• Blogs of the Dead: Covering Madison Zombie Lurch 2005

I’ll add to this entry if I find more good links. I’m hoping to have some video online this week, it’ll be over at tinkernet. (I’ve got over 40 minutes to edit!)

Oh poor design (and usability) how you taunt me!

I keep finding that there are certain sites that I’d like to use, or sometimes have to use, but it just pains me to do so because the design is so bad! How bad? Sooooo bad! Often the usability is nowhere to be found either…

…and it hurts… Oh how it hurts!