http://blog.gordaen.com Ramblings about art, education, Linux and a lot more Fri, 09 May 2008 07:19:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Surely we should be able to tag music as "Christmas" and have our music players only play it for one hour on December 25th each year. Rudolph, I can't even pretend to care about you. It's May. Quit picking your nose and it will not be so ... http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/05/09/feature-lacking-in-mp3-players/ Last week, Enzo (one of the two trouble-making cats who graciously allow me to sleep in their apartment) developed a schedule of waking me up at 4:34am. The first time, I just remembered looking at the clock and it was four-something in the morning. The next time, I ... http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/04/28/early-morning-rambling/ I've mentioned a few times here and there that I am working on my own blogging software. I had actually hoped to be switched over to it by the middle of this month, but I've been working two jobs (and doing that crazy school thing), so I haven't had ... http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/04/10/various-wordpress-issues/ These are just various errors that I've come across recently. I think all of these are excellent examples as to how NOT to show errors (with the exception of the Facebook problem, which isn't a browser error). The 401 error in IE actually links support personnel to the ... http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/04/10/various-error-screenshots/ Having to work with Django the past few weeks has been quite the... adventure. My prior experience has primarily been with PHP with only a little Python exposure, so I am largely learning the programming language and the framework at the same time. Today, I had a typical ... http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/04/03/guido-on-django-in-2006/ I've been developing my own blog software based on CodeIgniter in order to fill my few free minutes (though I'm also painting and taking on a lot of other projects; not unusual for me). I spent more than a week up front just brainstorming, thinking about what I want ... http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/03/31/features-a-blog-should-have/ I've been slowly trying to organize the photos on my computer, especially since I have been using my desktop more than my laptop, and I came across this photo that I took a while back. This is the bottom of a United States Postal Service (USPS) box. I ... http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/03/31/bottom-of-usps-box/ Wonder where Barack Obama finds such great speeches? Well, it's not my Barack Obama Random Speech Generator... haha. I had the idea the other night to throw together a speech generator that could come up with speeches that sounded like what Obama might say. It's nothing fancy ... http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/03/30/barack-obama-speech-generator/ I don't know what it is, but this Skullcrusher Mountain Flash Video is hilarious. The song is by Jonathan Coulton, telling the tale of an evil mastermind and his strange ideas about love. Check it out. http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/03/30/skullcrusher-mountain-flash-video/ I noticed a few headlines lately about Apple receiving flak, particularly from Mozilla, for slipping an install of Safari onto people's Windows machines. Personally, I find that Apple products work well with Apple products, but they rarely work as well on Windows. I wanted to give Safari a ... http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/03/23/sneaky-safari-install/