Archive for July, 2008

July 3rd, 2008 by alephnaught

Today was a good day

Today was a pretty good day it was just over 100 degrees F with bright sunshine, I think I fixed Twitter Tools, while not the way I would prefer, but good enough for now, I’m using ScribeFox to write this post; it seems to work okay but I need to spend more time on image [...]

July 3rd, 2008 by alephnaught

Jan Van Eyck: Renaissance Realist

Title: Jan Van Eyck: Renaissance Realist Author: Till-Holger Borchert Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: Taschen; Ill edition (June 1, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 3822856878 ISBN-13: 978-3822856871 I found this book at the Taschen store at the Los Angeles Farmer’s Market; one of the few non-dog-friendly places we’ve found in LA so far. We both love Taschen [...]

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July 3rd, 2008 by alephnaught

I’m doing a bunch of stuff I should have been doing all along

Time, the enemy of humankind. United Online gave all employees an extra day off for the 4th of July holiday, so I’ve got some unexpected free time. I’m doing a few things…. First, working on my WordPress blog – I want to try to fix the Twitter Tools plugin, it doesn’t know about the local [...]

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July 2nd, 2008 by alephnaught

Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-07-02

Trying to fix TwitterTools so it respects timezone for daily blog post digest – it appears to save UTC in database, use local time for comp # @thelocaltourist What are you switching to from Dreamweaver? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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July 2nd, 2008 by alephnaught

GPS tracking getting better (still not great for the unwashed masses)

Today’s New York Times has an article titled, “See Spot Run. Now Find Out Where He Went.” The author tried out the Zoombak, a GPS tracking tool designed to be used on dogs and children. As the author noted, it didn’t work so well, with lots of false locations and slow updates. Luckily I’m past [...]

July 1st, 2008 by alephnaught

Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-07-01

So, friends, what tools do you use to test web application interfaces? # The graphic novel “The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores” just shipped – finally get to know why all the males died…. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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