CMS…
Other than that though it’s been a good day, or so says Emo Philips.
Leonard Cohen, he’s your man.
Coffee has been casting a shadow over me of late. That’s frustrating. I’m trying to drink it less. Hopefully that will not be a large inconvenience. I am trying to improve both my disposition, ability to sleep, and performance/productivity. Ha, both.
Plone, Drupal, Joomla!, DotNetNuke, which to recommend. I’ve got about 5 hours to figure that out. Thankfully there is no rush and I am really getting to take my time and understand the differences between the systems.
I’d be good at that game if I ever played it. No life of crime for me.
I’m moving out in July. Probably around the 18th. That’s something I’m happy about. It hasn’t totally settled in yet how much I’ll like it. But I think that’s because I’m trying to not get carried away with it. It’s still a few weeks away. I should probably pack some things up though. It’s hard to feel like it’s worth packing when I don’t own that much stuff. But it’s much easier to move things in boxes. I’ll be proud of myself if I pack stuff up before the move.
Got a couch?
Furniture is nice. Thankfully I wont need much since the place is pretty small. Sean is coming along for a few months also. He’s a good roomie.
Sure I’ll “bang that site out” on Saturday afternoon. This should be interesting. My total lack of connection with this project will certainly rear it’s head in the first 15 minutes of the process, after that it should be cool.
It’s Pedro, the Lion.
I’m gonna turn the internet upside down for my neighbors. Cause it’ll be funny. Yup.
Today I am writing my first Expression Engine Template. So far I can tell it’s not that bad once you get used to it. It is semi-frustrating to feel like people make things more complicated than they need to by using template systems. But I am really in no position to evaluate it’s effectiveness yet.
So launch is um, we don’t know when. The goal is though to have the entire site re-written in a WCM ((Web Content Manager)) of some or other type. Hence the Expression Engine template.
In other things Elliot helped me configure postfix for the first time. That was pretty easy. I’ve also done a few mysqldump’s and imports. It feels really good to be able to dump a site and then import it on another server and actually have it appear magically. I feel like I’ve been missing out by being too lazy to learn.
Elliot also showed my this amazing commenting setup. I really like the way it looks on the Django Book site. ((I linked to a page where you could see it.)) So that makes me really wish I was smarter. That JS stuff seems pretty light weight. I could be wrong. That is really slick stuff regardless. I’m so impressed it loads about 50 million times faster than a lightbox and is way more useful. I wonder if there is a way to cache every light box image on a page in the background so that it loads faster. That makes me wish I was smarter also. I might be able to figure it out.
Back to the template…
I’m entertaining the idea of getting a new car. I would much rather pay money for a car that is reliable than one that will conintually break, and still not be reliable. I guess it’s good to do the math.
Contracts run out. Indeed they do. So does my patience.
I switched something from Thursday evenings to Saturday morning. I hope it works better.
I don’t like it when I can’t hear someone and I ask them what they said and they repeat it, leaving out the part I was trying to hear more clearly. Yeah, that is not something I like.
I wish I was creative…
I’d really like to paint a wall. Two colors.
Goodbye.
I wouldn’t want to call you yourself now would I?
So don’t talk about reasons why you don’t wanna talk about reasons why you don’t wanna talk.
Madness lurks, and it honestly makes things interesting.
Try to separate logic from presentation. Just try.
I think I’ll play with Code Igniter. Looks like a pretty well thought out framework. I wanna be that fast.
There is something about the way Dostoevsky says stuff that cracks me up. I love the way his characters rant on and on at the brink of madness.
Web strategy, from none to one.
Went to GA for the weekend. Had a wonderful time. Really pleasant. It’s so fun to meet people. Good people. Nice people. It’s just a good time. Sure there is stress, for them, for me. Always. But it’s still fun. I mean with no stress everything would be mash potatoes. And that’s just kind of bland.
You were laying on the carpet
like you’re satin in a coffin.
You said, “Do you believe what you’re sayin’?”
Yeah right now, but not that often. ((Modest Mouse))
I had a 60% increase in the progress of Thomasmooremusic.net. Have to try and finish that up ASAP. I finally got a design I like, it’s just a matter of tying a few area’s of it together better and actually slicing the thing up in a decent fashion. Right now it doesn’t even show up in IE 7 or Opera. Oooppssss….
I took some pictures in this great coffee shop in Dublin, GA. Really nice place. One day I hope to open an office/shared workspace just like it. It had this awesome front area. Lots of room. Two front window nook areas. In the back it had these large floor to ceiling partitions made from welded steel beams, hollow ones, about 4×4. Then about two feet off the floor they had nice finish plywood bolted in. They stopped about 3 feet off the ceiling with the plywood. I really liked how that managed to make that area really private, but at the same time not close the place off. The partitions were on both walls and made a hallway in the middle. After you went through the hallway it opened back up into a little prep/storage area. It had big windows in the back also and a door that you could go outside to the back patio area. Nice big brick patio behind other buildings. Felt much bigger city than the town in general was. Cozy hanging lights. You could also come into the porch area from an ally. Which is awesome! Hopefully I’ll remember to get those pictures back from Violette.
“If I say anything mean in the next 5 hours I’m sorry.” ((Nina)) Haha, road trips are great.
Ada don’t talk about reasons why you don’t want to talk about reasons
why you don’t wanna talk ((The National-Ada Lyrics)) ((The National-Website))
A funny comment to make in a room full of people when something personal between some of them comes up is, “Aww, that’s a moment. Ya’ll are having a moment.” In a southern accent. Great stuff.
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights
arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
oh you wouldn’t want an angel watching over
surprise, surprise they wouldn’t wannna watch
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults ((The National-Mistaken for Strangers Lyrics))
So I decided against flash on the front page of this site. Big surprise.
You may notice a newly added page on the right side of this site, titled Pictures.
I installed the SimpleFlickr ((SimpleFlickr)) plugin today. It’s lets me insert a Simple Viewer gallery that pulls photo’s from my Flickr photostream. Neat!
I’m going to use it on Thomasmooremusic.net. Simple solution.
I also installed the WP-Footnotes plugin. ((This lets me insert footnotes like this on this fly in a very simple way. Awesome!))
In short, people with drive inspire me.
So I’m back on Flickr. Previously I had just been mass uploading all the shots I had taken at any given time. I won’t follow that route this time however. Only shots I like. I’ll try to do something interesting to tie the photostream in here as well.
Shop-vac’s are handy.
My youngest brother beat me arm wrestling last night.
Recently I’ve been trying to take more pictures. I really like having a dSLR. It’s so much fun to actually have some control over how a picture turns out. At the same time I don’t spend a cent on developing film. I average about 400 pictures every time I take my camera somewhere. 92% of those are terrible and not worth looking at. But I think that percentage will keep going down.
I’ve been kind of intimidated by the idea of buying another lens. There are so many different things to consider. Especially difficult for me since I know so little about what would help me take better pictures. Vi mentioned getting a lens with a bigger aperture. I didn’t even know what that was at the time, but now that I’ve been doing some checking I think that is exactly what I will do. Canon 50mm f/1.4. Low light, selective focus, bang!
On another note, I joined an open source project. It’s a fork of activeCollab 0.71. I’m excited!
From black to white in a week.
I love photography. I hate not being a good photographer. Love will prevail. Pictures will be good. (Got any EF/AF SLR lenses you’d like to sell?)
Seems to be the time of moving.
Went and saw The Collective on Saturday night. Almost skipped it. I’m glad I went. Nice photo op. Plus a good show.
On the way way home I some how managed to rip the plastic guard off the underside of Vi’s car. I tried to rip it off by hand but no dice. I then tried to reverse over it a few times to rip it off. No dice. I decided I couldn’t do anything about it and just kept driving home. A few minutes later I got pulled over because the car was, “throwing sparks out behind it”. oops… So I then spent the next 45-60 minutes in front of a church off Mills in downtown Orlando trying to rip off incredibly strong plastic with one hand while my face was rubbing on the concrete and trying to keep an eye out for anyone sneaking up on me to bash me. Ripped most of it off and successfully got caked in grease in the process. Cut the rest off with tin-snips when I got home. Sorry. I’ll to try and get a new one of those I guess.
Power steering went out on my car on Friday. NICE!
