Welcome to 2007, Dylan…
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under Uncategorized
So, I got off of my lazy ass and installed Windows Live Writer.
I’ve heard from so many people that I should try it out for blogging, but as I mentioned above… I’m really lazy.
First impression: it’s pretty nice, I guess.
Second impression: I essentially stopped using almost all software made by microsoft about a year ago, because I generally couldn’t afford it, and there were equivalent or better OSS or free alternatives.
as it turns out, I think I prefer non-msft style. It just took me 10 minutes to figure out how to get to the edit source… The layout is just not conducive to how I work anymore. Weird. I was a msft-only guy for close to a decade… and I lost it all in less than a year.
And I’m all right with that.
Firefox 3: thoughts and impressions.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
Well, I did my part.
I just installed the latest Firefox as part of download day.
My first thoughts (I haven’t looked at ff3 since and early beta…)
- I miss my bookmarks that all got deleted (meh.)
- I miss(ed) firebug. (getfirebug.com v.1.1 v.1.2 works just fine)
- I miss(ed) firecookie (http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/firecookie-05-beta/ v0.5 seems to work fine)
- Firefox no longer crashes fatally every time I close it. (seriously, every single time I closed it)
- Startup and shutdown are INCREDIBLY fast compared to ff2.
- I miss my themes… and mozilla.org is a little swamped right now, so I can’t get a new one. However, the default theme is really not bad at all.. I just miss my old one.
We’ll see how well it deals with being left running…
hopefully I’ll never see memory usage of 1,268,300k ever again.
I’ll update with more as I remember things.
Update:
I upgraded to ff3 on my macbook.
- Colorzilla needed to be upgraded ColorZilla v2.
- Bookmarks transferred just fine…
my life as a sitcom.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
So, I’m getting married…
For some reason there are a bunch of people that share my and my fiancees names, so I was unable to get dylanandsarah.com or any variation on that… out of frustration, I found a URL that fit my mood.
myfuckingwedding.com
awesome.
in a fit of brilliance, my wife-to-be suggested dylanlovessarah.com. Acquired and set up. Rock.
in a fit of general stupidity, I had extra invitations printed (in comic-sans…) that told people to rsvp @ myfuckingwedding.com… to send to my friends who would undoubtedly find it as hilarious as I do.
Today we found out that at least one of the “informal” rsvp cards was inadvertently sent to one of Sarah’s cousins.
Hilarity ensues.
gChartPhp - sometimes life gets the best of you.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under google, nerdly, programming
yeah..
I haven’t touched gChart in months.
Realistically, I’m not going to… I’m just way to swamped at work.
If someone wants to take over, lmk. I’ll gladly add you to the project.
Otherwise… who knows.
-d.
Sometimes technology is too much for me.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
Like when I IM twitter in response to an SMS I just reveived from twitter.
To respond to the person sitting 8 feet away from me.
(and then blog about it.)
-d.
oh, gmail ads… you know me so well….
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It's Your Menstrual Cycle - www.MyMonthlyCycles.com -
Track and calculate your menstrual cycles for free.
thanks gmail. I’ll keep that in mind.
-d.
google product consintency.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, google, nerdly
I use reader. A lot. I love it.
I also use gmail, which I also love.
I hate going to gmail quickly reviewing my unread email and hitting shift-a and not having it mark everything as read.
I have done so at least five times.
today.
Anyone know of a greasemonkey script that ports the reader keyboard shortcuts to gmail?
-d.
release early…
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under Uncategorized
um… that other one, too.
more gchartphp stuff should be up later this week.
werd.
-d.
gChartPhp - progress of a sort.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under OO, google, nerdly, programming
Real quick:
I had less time than I wanted to to work on gChartPhp this weekend.
In that time I fixed a couple bugs (bar chart bar width calculation for one…) and got x-axis labels working.
I plan to get y-axis labelling working asap. The plan is to allow you to put labels for the y-axis, or just specify how many y-axis labels to have and let it calculate what those are.
That will have to wait until tomorrow.
Also:
Dhaval Patel did a bunch of work to version 2 of the code and got a lot more working. I have been stupidly busy and haven’t had a chance to even look at it, but I will probably put that code up (fully credited, of course) on google code when I commit the axis labelling stuff tomorrow.
So, not as much progress as I was hoping, but progress nonetheless.
-d.
gchartphp - progress will happen.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under google, programming
Sorry for the general delay.
Holidays and actual “work” have gotten in the way of getting more stuff done/integrated on gchartphp.
I haven’t forgotten.
More will be happening soon.
(let’s call it a new years resolution…)
-d.