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DDB - a Drupal DDB Builder for building distributions on the fly

bronius — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:56:38 -0400

Ok, this is an unfair cross-post, but it's my cross-post, so comment where you will.. Either way, you'll have to wade through the copious collection of spam comments before I see it and approve... What's this about captcha?

Here's what I posted on lullabot after listening to a great podcast:

Because all good projects need a name, I would start there: DDB ("Drupal DDB Builder").

Milo's Baptism

bronius — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:31:32 -0400

Ok folks.. I'm not sure how this is going to go down, but join Milo in a technological journey of live streaming during his baptism (assuming the priest doesn't confiscate my cell phone). Flash player required (but you probably have it).

(temporarily removed QIK flash video player.. for some reason I was cross-linked into someone else's profile.. weird)

Above, there should be a video player, and you should see either Milo's baptism in action or a splash title screen. If you see something completely random, then you've missed the boat (but you can easily visit the archives in the provided thumbnails at the end of the clip! :))

Motorola Q Q9c locks up showing 100% cpu utilization under Task Manager

bronius — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:19:42 -0400

My Motorola Q9c on Sprint running Windows Mobile 6 freezes up intolerably, inoperably very frequently, and I have confirmed the same behavior with other friends' moto-Q's. If anyone has any insight into what's causing it and how to work around it, PLEASE let me know! I check for updates almost daily, the frequency of which is surpassed only by the number of times I restart the device in a day!!

My daily operations: I have two imap accounts sync'd at 15min intervals ea. I take a few pictures a week for photo-blogging.

Sometimes I get a Running Low on Memory error. (WHY??) And this with 9MB Device Storage and over 20MB RAM free.

Microsoft Vista SP1 Green - 10 PCs on Vista is like taking an automobile off the road

bronius — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:46:32 -0400

My MSDN subscription wrote this:

Every 10 PCs that switch to Windows Vista is the equivalent of taking an automobile off the road, in terms of greenhouse gases.

And I would tend to agree that the performance of Vista could, continuing with the analogy, knock out an entire fleet of vehicles! :D

Dog Licks Screen Clean Flash Screensaver

bronius — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:20:40 -0500

I tried and tried to keep it low-key on the down-low but my favorite email service gmail refused to let me send to me and my small circle of friends this executable, so here it is on my website instead.

Attached to this post is a downloadable screensaver of a pugsley (sp) puppy dog licking the monitor from the inside of the computer. Adorable. But I'd have kicked it outside if I caught a mangy mutt doing that to my 24" Dell flat panel!

I take no credit for the awesomeness that is this video clip; I just used MDM Zinc to wrap it in a .scr screensaver and .exe windows installer. If you'd like it for the Mac, not sure I can help ya there... enjoy!

What the Font Worked the First Time

bronius — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:35:52 -0500

Well, I might be exposing my weakness as a designer by not immediately recognizing the ollowing font:

which is a title graphic for the intro flash to the Herrick Goldman Lighting Design website whose font I was asked to identify. It is used on the "inherited flash" intro for which I had no source .fla.

I took a screenshot with the free version of Gadwin Printscreen and saved it as a png, headed over to What the Font, stepped through the short wizard and was amazed at how simple the process and accurate the result was right off the bat. I included in my screenshot of the What the Font results screen (below) the text at the bottom with two suggested paths to get expert human help in the event that the right font was not automatically identified.

The Future or Science is Art - Write the Code not the Recording

bronius — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:44:41 -0500

This week's TIME Magazine issue had an article "Man Makes Life" that had a line within that caught my attention:

...nobody doubts that it is our DNA that determines what we are ... [in the same way that] digital etchings on a CD determine the music you hear.

This struck a chord with what I read in the cover article in a recent past issue of SEED Magazine ("The Future of Science .. is Art?"). This article suggested that abstract ideas represented in concrete artwork (music, sculpture, drawings..) are more easily studied than the theoretical concepts and math themselves.

Why I didn't attend BarCamp-Texas

bronius — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:31:13 -0500

In our community, we have a relatively new geek/designer meet-up called Refresh BCS. The organizers of the same put on a Barcamp
this past weekend, but I didn't attend. Here's why...

(more to come... stubbed for my friend Google in the meantime ;) )

Mystical, flexing stick in a tree!

bronius — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:55:32 -0500

On my lunch break, I looked up at just the right time to notice a really cool-looking stick caught in a tree. What was interesting to me was the way that it appeared to flex and warp spontaneously when the wind blew.

I tried to capture it to share with the world (see attached video), but hardly caught the full effect for you.

What greatly disappointed me about the whole sighting, however, was when I shared it with a coworker, who typically is interested in the more unobvious things in life, he came, saw, was unamazed, and maliciously removed the stick from its natural chance landing, completely preventing anyone else from happening across the phenomenon. Why? I just don't understand...

Gmail keeps getting better. New alert tells me Firefox is slowing down my session.

bronius — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:26:49 -0500

ok, I mistitled my url on purpose.. But I thought either way it's clever that based on my browser, they knew to toss up an alert tailored to me and my preferred web browser suggesting tips on how to speed up my gmail session. See screenshot:

Upon closer inspection, they actually sniffed out my use of Firebug plugin always running. They recommend disabling Firebug for gmail. I suppose it would be a good practice, in general, to just enable firebug for specific sites I'm working with-- what a novel idea..