February 2006 Archives

Somehow I can’t get that excited that about the iPod HiFi, when my daughter has the equivalent of an iPod > brain interface:

Auria Direct Connect

Your simple audio input connector for easy access to auxiliary microphones, FM systems, MP3 player, CD players, telecoils, and other assistive listening technology and consumer electronics.

I just upgraded this site to Wordpress 2.0.1, and my stats page at Dreamhost stopped working. This happened once before, and I had fixed it, so I had to go Googling for the answer again. Here it is for posterity:

Making stats accessible with htaccess.

I’ve also added it over at the Wordpress Codex:

Wordpress broke my site stats at Dreamhost

I’d say that has some shelf presence!

update: new url

Today our little precious girl is 5 years old! Pics from the party a little later tonight. :-)

Update 03/14: Ok, no pics yet. :-( I’ve downloaded them but have not had time to get them posted.

I tried to access this site while at the coffee shop today, and the wireless was not connecting. Assuming that it was working, I got the “could not connect to redmonk.net” message from Firefox, and freaked out, thinking my site was down. I tried to hit the web panel at my host, and in an amusing freudian slip, I typed

panic.dreamhost.com

into my browser window.

I just got rocked by the Wayback Machine:

This is my world

via Scripting News: Megnut - “Web people can tell you the first site they ever saw, they can tell you the moment they knew: This, This Is It, I Will Do This.”

And I am

I was sitting in the studio at Ethicom in early 1994, and I had gotten Ethicom signed up with InfiNet. I used Mosaic, on a Mac. Unlike Meg, perhaps, I don’t remember the first web page I went to, but I knew then that, as Meg says, “I Will Do This”. It was another year and a half before I get my wish, and I dragged several designers kicking and screaming into the world of the 216 palette, HTML, etc. We beta-tested the first versions of GoLive, we used FreeBSD, and my world was rocked.

The World Leader Pretend

It’s still rocking today.

(That, by the way, is from a post in 2000 on my editthispage site.)

Heh. Meme-fun from Wolf

Passed along from a GoogleFriend, it’s surprisingly wacky to Google your first name, prepending “unfortunately”

Here’s “Unfortunately Steve”:

• Unfortunately, Steve will be incarcerated the entire time - you better believe I will be
• Unfortunately, Steve doesn’t provide examples of Apple’s crappy products - there are crappy Apple products?
• Unfortunately, Steve, the barley straw trick requires bright sunlight to break the humics from the straw down into algicidal by-products - dammit, why doesn’t anyone tell me these things beforehand?
• Unfortunately, Steve could not come due to a “last minute budget freeze” - the wife has my credit cards
• Unfortunately Steve didn’t make it into professional football - I was just too good for them
• Unfortunately Steve died a second time after foiling the plot in question - but the memorial service was really nice

~stevenf wrote a post about how he’s using VoodooPad to store information on his Treo. Very neat. I’ve become a VoodooPad junkie as well, and — while it’s not as neat as Steven’s trick — I have a little trick I’ve whipped up to export a voodoopad document as a singel bookmarks page that I use as my browser’s homepage.

I hacked the template and stylesheet of the included GMDC Blog plugin, so that all the pages that are linked from the document’s index get included in the home page (the original plugin does this) but I stripped it down so that the blocks of links wrap to the page width.

Then I wrote an Applescript that lives in VoodooPad’s script menu that exports the document to /Library/WebServer/Documents/, using my plugin. Now whenever I want some new link available, I drop it in bookmarks.vdoc, and exportBookmarks. Easy.

Oh, I also mark all my stuff up as Markdown, and export the content as such (a setting in the export window).

Download the plugin: GMDCHack

My export script: exportBookmarks