Archive for August, 2005

We spent the day in the mountains with my folks, celebrating my dad's 70th birthday. seven-oh. We had an awesome day at their timeshare cabin at Banff Gate just outside of Canmore (not far from Banff). Got lots of great pics, and Evan had a blast. The coolest thing about today was that dad wasn't... »

Over the years, I have taken several series of quick-and-dirty panorama photographs. No tripod. No careful alignment. Just snapping a series of shots at various angles at cool or memorable places. I've been hoping that the software would catch up and make it brain-dead simple and quick to make high quality panoramas. Autostitch has... »

I know my battery life is really sucking on my 3G iPod. I get JUST enough juice to commute home and back to work (a grand total of 1 hour of use) before having to plug it in for enough charge to repeat the cycle again. On the weekend, if I just leave it... »

For the Pachyderm project, we wanted a way to automatically update, build and deploy a WebObjects application and its supporting framework. The initial reaction was to just use a shell script, with xcodebuild running on the server to build the appropriate projects. That didn't work for us, because our server is still running 10.3 (with... »

Yeah, I'm switching again. I'd used Notational Velocity before, and really liked it, but switched to DevonThink PE to manage stuff that I don't necessarily want Google to find (password, bank account info, and random notes - code snippets and the like - that don't make sense being blogged) I just tried the full DevonTHINK Professional... »

Looks like our on-campus networks are being hammered by W32/IRCbot.worm - the Learning Commons webserver, Pachyderm, APOLLO, as well as the main U of C website are all being affected by terabytes of virus traffic taking over the network. Even though our servers aren't running the Biggest Security Hole Known to Man, and are themselves... »

Gizmodo linked to a new machinima talk show: This Spartan Life If you've seen Red vs. Blue, or some of the similar movies made using "in game" videography from some games like Halo or Quake3, you'll know what machinima is. But This Spartan Life takes it one step further - instead of being a scripted "in-game... »

I've been really bad about updating the iPodder.org podcast directory educational category in a timely manner. Mostly because it's rather a huge PITA to manually update the .opml file - very carefully editing the xml in BBEdit, then validating using the just barely meaningful online OPML validator to make sure I didn't bork it. I... »

I just got the most bizarre email spam. Obviously it was triggered by some Google query, as some key words that show up in my Google referrals were used repeatedly in the email. hello, i have had numerous sites telling me that your site has the key to seing my house no matter what country... »

Alan's got a rant-on about "reality" TV, and the impending doom of civilization as we know it. I kinda agree, but don't think it will stop until we've seen the likes of "Switched At Birth" - a "reality" series where they swap babies between a rich family and a trailer park family, and follow... »