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So I need to clarify a little what I’m after with posting
these music links. This is really the thing that got me wanting to do
the weblog in the first place, so I should canonize the ground rules,
if for no reason other than to allow myself to focus on what I’m
doing.
Originally, I thought that I’d post [...]
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My coworker Darin sent me this link to
The Poetic Systems website. How is that for a work environment? I
want one. We’ve got four guys in a not huge office, two of whom are
subject to fits of farting, giggling, whooping over naked women
pictures and other fratboy behavior. Maybe if I worked in
The Aura this [...]
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Damn, I see that science fiction artist Ron Walotsky has died. I interviewed
him at Dragon*Con a few years ago and really liked him. He was a nice
guy and a great artist. RIP, Ron. You passed way too young.
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I ended up up going to WREK over my lunch hour. Last week a
lightning strike caused some damage to the station, and this morning
the telemetry went nuts and just shut the station off. I happened to
be calling the shack robotic information line when someone picked up -
it was Chris, my compadre WREK alumnus. He also [...]
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OK, I am definitely going with CSS for this site. Yesterday I decided
“I want all the timestamps to be bold, not italicized.” I’d rather
make one change in the CSS than rewrite all the damn tags, so thus it
goes. I’m going to alter the BlogMax templates to reference logical
names and move all formating to the stylesheet. [...]
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Today’s band is linked to yesterday’s
band, both musically and personally. Well, the “band” is actually
a person, Diana
Obscura. She plays cello, amongst other instruments, and her music
is medieval, ambient, haunting and beautiful. I took some of her MP3s
and added them to WREK’s
Atmospherics rotation. I really like her music. Years ago I met her
when she was the [...]
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I’m already an uncle! Emily Nicole was born earlier this afernoon. Way
to go! I’m so excited!
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At work one of the tools I’ve used recently is
the GMT - Generic Mapping Tools. It is unbelievably cool! You can
generate practically any map you can think of via this tool. I
generated all kinds of maps with this, changing the colors, adding the
state or country borders, altering the projection type. If you wanted
to and [...]
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Got a call this morning from my brother at 5 AM. Within the next 24 -
36 hours I will be an uncle! I can’t wait. This weekend we’ll be going
and visiting.
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Changelings
Today’s band is The
Changelings. I’ve known them a while and I used to use their music
as bumpers for my radio show quite frequently. They have gothic,
ambient, Middle Eastern influences amongst others. I truly dig
them. You can download some of their music from their page at
MP3.com. The only bummer is that my favorite song of [...]
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Got mail from Bill St. Clair, who added me to the BlogMax links page
today. Thanks, Bill!
I meant to do an entry or two during the day, but I didn’t. I was
planning to set up every computer that I use during the day with the
mode and my templates, but that didn’t work. I carried the stuff [...]
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Mmmmm, just had dinner at
Rocky Mountain Pizza over by Georgia Tech. I’ve never had pizza
there, only their Smokehouse Burger. We’ve taken to always getting the
sweet potato fries. Tasty! Part of the deal was that we also got to
play the South Park pinball machine, one of my favorites.
Haven’t yet mentioned it here, but I’m on [...]
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For as many days as I can maintain it, I’m going to try to make an
entry every day about a musician I love. To keep it all webloggy, I’m going to
limit it to musicians that offer their MP3s. Other than WREK, this is
how I find out about new bands nowadays. I was going to [...]
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Over the coming weeks I will write here about WREK 91.1 FM in Atlanta a fair
bit. It is, in my opinion, a brilliant idiot savant of a radio
enterprise. I worked there for several years in the 80’s, then did
Reality Break there in the 90’s, and upon returning to Atlanta in 2000
got back involved. The idiot [...]
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Before I go too far with this, I should explain this “Evil Genius”
business. Does this mean that I think I’m a genius or that I think I’m
evil? Do I want to be in the axis of evil? Although I’m reasonably
bright, I’m not a genius. I’d even call myself pretty far from
evil. So why the name?
In [...]
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Another modification to the timestamp - I’m having it put in an anchor
tag with the same name as the timestamp, so that you could link to
this entry as 020727.html#20:38. Of course, I’m not sure if a colon is
valid character so I might have to changed that.
My wife is watching Trading
Spaces on
TLC right now. I [...]
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OK, I sort of kind of figured out the timestamping. The above was done
by pressing Ctrl-Alt-t. I put this in my
XEmacs init.el file:
;; Insert time stamp
(defun insert-timestamp ()
“Insert current timestamp.”
(interactive “*”)
(insert (concat “” (substring (current-time-string) 11 16) ““))
)
(define-key weblog-mode-map “C-M-t” ‘insert-timestamp)
The only problem is that something about this current-time-string
doesn’t [...]
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Something else this weblog-mode needs is a timestamper. Dear god, I
need to be learning better Lisp like I need a hole in the head! I
looked at Bill St. Clair’s page of other
Blog Max weblogs. About half haven’t touched the template, leaving
it straight out of the box. Maybe I should just have the pages
reference a CSS [...]
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Beginnings
Friends and neighbors, citizens of the cybersphere, I too am now a
blogger. I’ve been interested for some time in the phenomena but being
a selectively lazy man, I haven’t done it. Last week I listened to a
piece on
KPBS in San Diego (via their audio stream) about blogging. Mitch
Wagner, who I know from online various places, [...]
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