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Wordpress 2.0 is out! Let’s see, I needed to manually install PHP Markdown which used to be a default plug-in and also an upgraded version of wp-contact form. But other than that everything else worked.
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| 21:56:04 December 28, 2005, Wednesday (PST) |
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I just haven’t been in the mood to write as of late. I got an email from a reader asking when I’m going to start writing again, so I figured I might as well address it online. I did have urges to post a few times. Especially when Apple announced the Intel thing (WOW) then [...]
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| 20:24:37 September 26, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
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The development workflow If I was developing a site locally on my Mac for a site called http://www.cooldomain.com/ I’d develop it under the domain dev.cooldomain.com that I’m hosting locally on my OSX powered Mac. This way I know, whenever I type dev. before the domain name it’s the local copy and when I have www. before [...]
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| 18:43:57 May 27, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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So I’m using an ‘extra’ powerbook while the iBook gets a new logic board this week. What’s a web developer to do with a new (temporary use) machine? Get Apache, PHP & MySQL running of course. Rather than muck around with the OS and .conf files I figured I’d try out some of the complete [...]
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| 21:34:06 May 24, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
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Well, that didn’t take long. No less than 2 hours after the previous iBook post the iBook finally said no more. Right now I’m in the process of backing it up while it’s in FireWire Hard Disk mode, then it’s off to to Apple Store. Hopefully afterward I can remote access into it and de-authorize [...]
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| 12:09:19 May 23, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
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I should mention that in March I broke down and purchased an iPod Photo (30GB). I’ve been very pleased with it so far. I believe that the newer generation iPods (including the Shuffle) seem to sound better than the earlier ones. I think hear less distortion in the low end. I’m still using the 512MB [...]
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| 11:21:13 May 22, 2005, Sunday (PDT) |
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Yes, it’s been a while. I figured I’d better write something before my iBook goes on the blink again (literally). That’s right my iBook is exhibiting the video blinking symptoms that just scream “Replace my Logic Board” again. I haven’t even done the 10.4 Tiger thing to this machine ‘cause I just have to many [...]
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| 11:12:14 May 22, 2005, Sunday (PDT) |
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I haven’t felt much like writing lately. The past few months have been a series of ups and downs for me. When things are good, they’re so good, I don’t even think about the blog or writing. When things are not as good, I don’t feel that I have anything ‘happy’ to write, and I’d [...]
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| 16:18:37 April 23, 2005, Saturday (PDT) |
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My old 10GB scroll wheel iPod died over the holiday season and I needed something to replace it. I was borrowing one for a while, but I wanted to get something of my own. So I bought an iPod Shuffle. I dropped $99 on the 512MB model, the price was just right. Well, I am [...]
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| 17:36:37 February 28, 2005, Monday (PST) |
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It’s been more than a month since my last post. I’m trying to “catch up” with my life and I haven’t had a chance to write about it. The NAMM show went great. Samson had a hit product with the C01U and sometimes that’s all you need to make a show. The Zoom party on Saturday [...]
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| 14:12:07 February 26, 2005, Saturday (PST) |
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Apparently the loud noise I heard at 5 in the morning on Friday was something to be concerned about. The damage wasn’t all that bad and no one was hurt so I guess I should count my blessings.
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| 12:23:34 January 18, 2005, Tuesday (PST) |
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Ok, the Mac mini is cool, very cool. So I thought about plunking down some cash on one right away (like right after the Keynote right away). Then I thought, better wait, the 1st version of anything tends to be a bit buggy. So my G4/400 will have to wait a bit before it’s replaced [...]
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| 19:27:03 January 13, 2005, Thursday (PST) |
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The [iPod Shuffle][1] is _not_ an [iPod][2]. [1]: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ [2]: http://www.apple.com/ipod/
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| 02:19:35 January 12, 2005, Wednesday (PST) |
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A little more tha a year ago I chose the British 'Mod Symbol' as this site's [favicon][2] for no other reason except that [The Who][3] are one of my favorite bands. Hey, the site needed a bit of identity at the time (it needs even more now) and the colors worked. I started using it [...]
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| 05:19:16 November 26, 2004, Friday (PST) |
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I've been sporadically working on a long form post entitled "The Quark Problem" for more than a year now (I've floated early copies of the document around the office for feedback). I added a few more paragraphs today, but I've got more to say and I don't see the end being just around the corner. [...]
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| 09:11:27 October 16, 2004, Saturday (PDT) |
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[goPod][1] From the read me: goPod is a command line program that allows you to remove the EU Volume limitation on EU iPod's. 'nuff said [1]: http://gopod.free-go.net/
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| 14:09:46 October 3, 2004, Sunday (PDT) |
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Moving from a [Radio Userland][1] based Blog to a different system was a painstaking process. This was one of the reasons for my long hiatus. (Yes, I did want time away, and yes I was busy enjoying myself while away from posting.) Getting the posts to an [MT][2]/[WP][3] import friendly format was difficult, then all [...]
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| 13:26:45 September 22, 2004, Wednesday (PDT) |
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A bit more compicated, but I've successfully moved the handful of comments that were stored on Userland's servers into my [WordPress][1] database. [1]: http://wordpress.org
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| 15:52:46 September 21, 2004, Tuesday (PDT) |
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Well, I had a slight problem with post titles being duplicated to subsequent posts without titles. I believe I've corrected all of duplicates. I still need to play with the mod-rewrite features. Also I going to have to spend a little time getting my own look for this site again. I'm off to Fire Island for tonight [...]
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| 08:50:39 September 18, 2004, Saturday (PDT) |
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I've got a new <a href="http://jumpserve.com/blanco/wordpress/wp-rss2.php">RSS feed</a> so please point your reader to the new location. Thanks icb
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| 16:58:37 September 17, 2004, Friday (PDT) |
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Well, I've thoroughly enjoyed my spring and summer away from this site. I feel refreshed. I enjoyed my summer at fire island and it's just a few months before boarding season. I plan on picking up were I left off here back in January. I've painstakingly repurposed the [Radio Userland][1] content to [Movable Type][2] format (which is what I was going to use) then imported it all into [WordPress][3]. What you see ...
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| 16:19:44 September 17, 2004, Friday (PDT) |
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Well, the NAMM show is over, the Jaco tribute went great, the long hours at work are done (for now) and I'm going to enjoy a few days in Hermosa Beach. When I get back to New York, I'll complete the switch to movable type, post a few essays and try to get back to keeping this thing updated on a more regular basis
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| 08:34:32 January 21, 2004, Wednesday (PST) |
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Well, the NAMM show is over, the Jaco tribute went great, the long hours at work are done (for now) and I'm going to enjoy a few days in Hermosa Beach. When I get back to New York, I'll complete the switch to movable type, post a few essays and try to get back to keeping this thing updated on a more regular basis
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| 07:34:42 January 21, 2004, Wednesday (PST) |
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I've resisted posting for the last few weeks 'cause I've been converting the content of this Radio Userland site to a Movable Type managed site for a few weeks now. I'm almost done. FWIW -- Radio Userland does not make it easy to move to a different management system. FYI -- **Adobe Illustrator CS** _does_ indeed let you save files down to previous versions. However, when you do so, most of your text blocks will be broken up in smaller text fragments. This I assume is due to the fact the new text rendering engine (the one it now shares with InDesign) is completely incompatible with older versions of Illustrator (and the older file formats). I guess you need to give ...
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| 15:11:51 November 30, 2003, Sunday (PST) |
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I've resisted posting for the last few weeks 'cause I've been converting the content of this Radio Userland site to a Movable Type managed site for a few weeks now. I'm almost done. FWIW — Radio Userland does not make it easy to move to a different management system. FYI — Adobe Illustrator CS does indeed let you save files down to previous versions. However, when you do so, most of your text blocks will be broken up in smaller text fragments. This I assume is due to the fact the new text rendering engine (the one it now shares with InDesign) is completely incompatible with older versions of Illustrator (and the older file formats). I guess you need to give up some things to move forward, but I find it difficult to believe that Adobe couldn't have found a better way around this.
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| 14:11:51 November 30, 2003, Sunday (PST) |
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The new Adobe Creative Suite arrived on Friday. I'm going to list my initial impressions, keep in mind that I've only used the apps for a few hours. The "pro" version of the suite ships with the following applications: Photoshop Illustrator Acrobat GoLive Version Cue I will not be discussing Acrobat (since it's just version 6 that's been out for a while now), GoLive CS (I do most of my coding by hand these days and to me Dreamweaver seem much more powerful with its Application Server support) or Version Cue (Adobe's go at CVS which actually looks like it will work rather well). I'm going to make a few points about the applications I know, that are new to this suite. Photoshop CS — Dynamically updating histograms! If you do color correction "by hand", you've been waiting for this feature for a while, it's here and it works (although it sometimes caches the histogram). Match Color is a nice feature that will give you quick and dirty color matching on an image based on the color of a ...
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| 18:17:20 November 10, 2003, Monday (PST) |
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The new Adobe Creative Suite arrived on Friday. I'm going to list my initial impressions, keep in mind that I've only used the apps for a few hours. The "pro" version of the suite ships with the following applications: * Photoshop * Illustrator * Acrobat * GoLive * Version Cue I will not be discussing **Acrobat** (since it's just version 6 that's been out for a while now), **GoLive CS** (I do most of my coding by hand these days and to me Dreamweaver seem much more powerful with its Application Server support) or **Version Cue** (Adobe's go at CVS which actually looks like it _will_ work rather well). I'm going to make a few ...
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| 14:17:20 November 10, 2003, Monday (PST) |
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* My town, Atlantic Beach was covered for the second time in six months in the New York Times Real Estate section this past Sunday: [Village That Doubles as Resort][1] [nytimes.com registration required]. * Tomorrow I'll be at the Apple Seminar Series [Driven by Design][2] in NYC seeing the latest offerings from Adobe, Quark, Extensis and HP. * I gave in an ordered an [iSight][3], Amazon's got 'em for 139 and they qualify for free shipping. Rationalization for the purchase: "Wel I'll need to be familiar with the technology in case a client has one." (I use that excuse _way_ too often.) * Ken Bereskin, Apple's Product Manager for Mac OS X has moved and ...
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| 16:39:00 October 29, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
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My town, Atlantic Beach was covered for the second time in six months in the New York Times Real Estate section this past Sunday: Village That Doubles as Resort [nytimes.com registration required]. Tomorrow I'll be at the Apple Seminar Series Driven by Design in NYC seeing the latest offerings from Adobe, Quark, Extensis and HP. I gave in an ordered an iSight, Amazon's got 'em for 139 and they qualify for free shipping. Rationalization for the purchase: "Wel I'll need to be familiar with the technology in case a client has one." (I use that excuse way too often.) Ken Bereskin, Apple's Product Manager for Mac OS X has moved and resumed his OS X weblog, now covering panther: Ken Bereskin's "Panther" Weblog Worth reading: Do we all need a personal system administrator? [via diveintomark.com] if only to find out just how vulnerable Windows systems are when left to themselves Note to self: get the details on All Consuming, it looks interesting.
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| 15:39:00 October 29, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
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Panther goodies [via diveintomark] from codepoetry: Obscure Panther Features Panther's Major Text Services Upgrade [extremely cool]
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| 13:10:13 October 26, 2003, Sunday (PST) |
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