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CODE IS POETRY

Monday, October 30th, 2006

“CODE IS POETRY”
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I’ve put up a very early version of QuailPress. It’s a WordPress plugin for Facebook’s Share feature. You activate the plugin, configure some display options, then add “<?php quailpress_share(); >” wherever you want the Share button to appear (typically under each post). This is an initial shot, so it’s rough and will need some work. I’ll add some new features as I get time, please give it a try if you use WordPress. I could use some button images and suggestions/testing!

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Snapshots for your [Mac|Linux]book

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Given enough time it happens to us all. We clobber some important file we’ve been pouring ourselves over for the last 4 hours, and *poof* it’s all gone. Many companies setup regular snapshot copies of your home directory at regular intervals so when this happens you can quickly go to your snapshots and pull your lost file out of the ether. While you may only use this occasionally it’s like an insurance policy that’s really worth the regular cost.

I do a lot of work on my laptop and until now I didn’t have the luxury of regular snapshots of my work. Using a program like dirvish it’s easy to setup an automated snapshot of whatever files you want with minimal disk usage. Because dirvish uses hard links to store the incremental backups each backup copy will only consume the difference of the changed files. This way you could store multiple snapshots at a given interval without multiplying the disk usage, here’s how I did it on my Macbook, other Unix systems should be nearly identical.

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Oracle Buys SOMA

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

I walked down my street, past the crowds of laynard people. Past the giant projection screen showing Oracle ads. Past the street closed with the giant Oracle tent. Past the three Buildings dedicated to Oracle OpenWorld. Past the Oracle buses and Oracle bus stops. Past the posters plastered on the sidwalk. To a sliver of a cofee shop on market, where I order a medium hot earl grey tea, and I find this:

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Leather chaps and butt cheeks

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

SF is great because you always get to see the most interesting things. So Folsom Street Fair is one of these things.I really should have taken more pictures, like the two guys playing with themselves in the middle of the street…. or the guy tied to a tree with a jock around his face…. or maybe the on-stage riming show by porn stars…. well you get the idea….

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Monome 40h has arrived!

Friday, October 20th, 2006

So this actually arrived a while ago, but my site was down so… let’s pretend this it’s three weeks ago. My much anticipated Monome 40h arrived and while it was a little difficult to get it up and running, the support forums were enough to get it going. I’m working on a library to be able to program this directly in python/php/c etc, should be available soon (assuming the server stays up that is).

Sounds like Monome won’t be making any more of these so they can concentrate on their next project m80h? I’m very happy with it, and can’t wait to see what they do next. My only dissapointement is that the led intensity is for all the entire unit and not each individual button. Here’s some pics from my gallery…

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Oracle OpenWorld

Friday, October 20th, 2006

I recieved a community notice that Howard Street would be closed all week long. Turns out it’s for the Oracle OpenWorld Convention, seems like they’ve closed down the entire street so that they can join the two convention buildings with a tent. How much room do you really need? At least it’s easier to jay walk without getting hit by a car now.
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