Superbowl
Here’s what the Superbowl means to me.
1. - For one day out of the year, we can go anywhere we want without a crowd or a wait for a table.
2. - Eleven more days until pitchers and catchers report.
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Where the Bread is Buttered
Dan Farber linked to me in the context of the ongoing thing between me and Brother Gillmor. How much traffic did that generate, this link by a well-respected journalist from a ZDNet blog? About 5% of what came in from an off-handed temporary link (now gone) to an old post at a modest readership web [...]
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Beautiful Morning
These are pretty much not good times around my house. Everyone is stressed and busy and exhausted, and it’s a time of the year that is the anniversary of very bad times not counting the brand new bad times being minted every day lately. Despite all that, I just had a moment.
I’ve been up [...]
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EGC Clambake for January 29, 2006
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I say goodbye to GoDaddy and give you the complete rundown on the coupon situation; I talk about the one year anniversary of my God episode; I play a song from the Arts and Sciences; I play a found [...]
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Tags: cageyhouse, decemberists, loremipsum, rocketboom, tailrank, theartsandsciences, uplifterPoppy Brite on New Orleans +5 months
Poppy Z. Brite lets rip a little of how she feels on the 5 month anniversary of Katrina landfall.
Of course I am mad as hell: at the Army Corps of Engineers who lied to us, at the White House and Congress who want our resources but don’t want to pay for them, at our local [...]
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Tags: neworleans, poppyzbriteTrain Keeps Rolling
Man, the thing between me and Steve Gillmor just won’t die. Steve talked about it for a looooooong time in this week’s Gillmor Gang, and even Dan Farber mentions it on ZDNet. Steve’s outlook seems to be as long as people talk about you and link to you, it doesn’t matter if they think you [...]
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Tags: gillmorgangPodcasterCon Movie
Friend of EGC Mark Welker has a movie that he put together from PodcasterCon. Interesting stuff. I still have a movie I shot with Mark at ConvergeSouth that I need to edit and publish.
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Tags: convergesouth, markwelker, podcastercon2006Ruby on Rails Scaffolding Hint
For those of you who ever have to do Rails work with an older database that was not created according to RoR naming specs and to which other things have been coded such that you can’t just rename everything, here’s something I found out the hard way. I created my model and used set_table_name to [...]
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Tags: rubyonrailsBone Play
Northwestern University is staging a play adaptation of the Bone comic book. I wish they would have done this back when we lived close enough to campus to ride bikes there, but you can’t get everything.
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EGC Clambake for January 26, 2006
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I profess my appreciation for the Deliberate Noise podcast and I play a song by the Strange; I am available for interviews on AmigoFish and Uplifter issues; I talk about the effort of solidifying the Uplifter philosophy; I play [...]
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Tags: borrowedtime, deliberatenoise, dvdtalkradio, elliotsmith, evanshapiro, greatamericanmusichour, ifc, killrockstars, robertrodriguez, thestrange, twangoff, uplifterUsing WheresGeorge Data to model epidemics
Ha, I knew that time entering my bills wasn’t wasted! Here’s a fascinating project that is using Wheres George data about the distances and speed of bill travel to model how epidemics would spread.
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Wordpress 2
When I set up the Uplifter weblog I downloaded the current Wordpress and went to work. That happens to be version 2.0, and I have to say it is quite sweet. I love the live preview of themes that lets you “try before you buy.” It sure beats the old method of changing them in [...]
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Tags: akismet, wordpressAttention: Steve Gillmor
Steve Gillmor continues to discuss the Earthlink advertising spot in his show (and name check me as well). Let me boil down my issue, since Steve continues to play a three card monte game with his audience’s concerns. We tell him that we are bored and that the spot sucks. He then shows us a [...]
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WP-Cache
The dangers of having a weblog and podcast that have some traction bit me today. The webserver box was starting to run away earlier today. I logged in and the server load was over 20. I turned the WP-Cache plugin back on. I had tried it before and don’t remember exactly why I turned it [...]
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Uplifter Lives!
The basic framework of the Uplifter stuff exists. There is now a wiki and a group blog. Anyone that is interested should feel free to contribute to either or both. The one thing about both is that they require registration to participate. I thought about this and think that for this particular deal, it makes [...]
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Tags: uplifterWild Bunch
I’ve had The Wild Bunch taped on my DVR since June and I frequently think about sitting down and watching it. The only thing is that I want to give it my full attention, and most of my TV watching is about 60% attention with my laptop in hand. Lately, there is no chance so [...]
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Tags: reelreviewsComputer Geek Score
I think having a pretty wife and being asleep at 3 AM cost me a few points. I probably correctly answered all of the technical questions, and I know for sure I identified the photo of the computer because that was actually part of one of my grad school classes. If anything, I think [...]
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Voices Lives!
Just when you thought Voices in your Head was defunct, out comes a new episode. In this I interview Scott Sigler about using podcasting to promote his books. Interesting stuff.
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Tags: itconversations, scottsigler, tagEGC Clambake for January 20, 2006
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have the return of an old friend! I interview John Mark King and we premiere a new Rocket City Riot song; I play a promo for the Balticon Podcast; I talk about Kevin Smith and [...]
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Tags: authorsontour, balticon, clerks2, michellemalone, montyroberts, neonchrist, rocketcityriotGarfield and Zuckerman
I saw this videoblog post from Steve Garfield. In it, Ethan Zuckerman is talking about Ben Franklin, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t look just like him to me. Was this deliberate irony from Steve or just happenstance?
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