I had a bad meal on campus on Thursday, and it hit me rather hard. Turns out it was food poisoning. All I ordered was a veggie burger, thinking it was safe and relatively healthy. OK, I ordered fries with it, too, but that was to balance out the healthy side of things…
I was so dizzy that I didn’t even get to enjoy the ambulance ride. And why does ER make it seem so much more exciting than it really is? There weren’t any neurotic one-armed surgeons or anything…
UPDATE: Yup. This is going to cost me about a grand… (by the time I pick up Bluetooth module, Airport card, 512MB RAM, 80GB drive, a DVI-Video adaptor so it can talk to my TV, and an EyeTV200 so I can Tivo stuff…)
Figure I’ll pick up one of these eventually and slap it into my entertainment system at home… This is exactly what I was hoping for! DAMNThank you Steve!
It struck home with me a bit, since, well, my weblog is rather tied into the ucalgary.ca domain. That would make things rather difficult if the situation ever changed (no, Mike - I’m not planning anything :-) I’m just saying…)
Over the years, I’ve changed employers a couple of times (until returning to the U of C, where my old account was reactivated after a couple years of dormancy). I’ve also switched ISPs a few times, so ISP-provided addresses get invalidated rather frequently. I’ve got my .Mac account, but that’s only valid as long as I decide to keep paying the ferryman.
I tried an experiment with my iPod running iPodLinux last night. I stopped by Wal*Mart and picked up a Cheap Ass AudioConferencing Headset 3000™ (for a whopping $19.95), came home and rebooted my iPod into iPodLinux. I set the recording sample rate to 33KHz and tried recording a few things to test it out. Worked well enough. But don’t try to playback the files under iPodLinux - it will crash.
Also, while recording, it seems to record the file to disk every 5 seconds, with an audio electronic feedback hum while it’s doing it (it only lasts for about half a second, but it’s quite annoying). I wound up recording about 45 minutes of nothing, just to see if it would crap out on a long recording. Turns out, since it’s recording to disk every 5 seconds, that it isn’t the bestest thing you can do to your iPod’s battery… Although the linux side was showing full battery strength, when I rebooted back into the Apple iPod OS, the battery was showing almost no juice left. I wasn’t too worried, since it often shows little juice, but “warms up” or calibrates or something over a few minutes to show the actual level.
So, I bit the bullet and migrated my weblog from Wordpress 1.2.2 to Wordpress 1.5 Alpha (the nightly build from January 9, 2005). Woah. That sounds scary! Not really… The nightly alphas are surprisingly stable, and I tested stuff out on my laptop before making the jump on the server.
The main plugins I use work fine, so there should be no issues there. The only thing that should be visibly different is the lack of the second line of the cheesy subtitle in the header of the site. Wordpress 1.5 appears to not like html tags there, so the tag was being displayed as source… Oh, well. Probably for the better anyway…
I just upgraded my OmniOutliner license to OmniOutliner Pro 3.0 - what an awesome upgrade. I just did a quick outline file to use as a “project dashboard” for the APOLLO project. This is something I had done in hand-rolled HTML on other projects, but here, I get a beautiful, dynamic, standards-compliant outline that I can edit as part of my regular workflow, so I’m much more likely to keep it up to date…
I just installed iPodLinux on my iPod, hoping to play around with it for recording podcasts. I was going to just use Audacity on my laptop, but the fan wouldn’t turn off, so it was waaay too noisy to record in my office.
So, a quick run of an installer, and a quick search to figure out how to reboot into linux (reboot the iPod by holding down the “menu” and “play/pause” button until something happens, then hold down the “rewind” button until you see a penguin). It’s pretty darned freaky to see a linux boot on an iPod.
Thanks to a link from BoingBoing, I saw Kiddie Records Weekly. That’s just awesome! They’re taking a bunch of old vinyl albums of kid’s shows from the 1940s and 50s and releasing 1 each week for the entire year 2005 - free for download.
I’d found Gerald McBoingBoing a while back from another source, and it’s one of Evan’s favorite tracks on my iPod (after D-O-G Spells Dog, by Mel Blanc - I even get to perform that one sometimes). Really looking forward to getting all of these classic shows!
Brian’s XServe is acting up, and we’re trying to figure out wtf went wrong, and trying to work with his IT folks that are managing the box for him.
In our quest for answers, I came across these resources (which have been dutifully bookmarked, delicioused, and added to my DevonThinkPE cache). I’m adding them here as well…
