After using Delicious Monster for the past year or so, I find the lack of feature development somewhat frustrating. Why can't I export to formats other than text (and even that export does'n't allow me to choose delimiters, CSV format, etc. ...)
The delicious guys have posted some cool new third-party stuff on their blog, such as the DeliciTunes, but really this should be integrated into the app.
I'm dumping some of my DVD to hard drives, and they are now in brown paper bags awaiting transit to Amoeba or something. I'd post the list online, but ca'n't get DeliciousExporter to work with DeliciousMonster 1.5 and Tiger [ insert sad 'smiley' face here ].
I do not walk to work, but many others do.
At times I would forget where I was. Cairo? Jakarta? Mexico City? Everywhere there are those same islands of wealth amid the poverty, like the green areas of Manila that are private golf clubs instead of public parks.
More of Salgado's photoessay at TIME magazine.
This one's for Aram:
The Chronicle reports that the widow of Huey Newton, Al Green, et al. seek to market their very special brand of hot sauce, named "Burn baby burn".
"It was a catchy phrase, and I thought it would be reminiscent of the '60s," Fredrika Newton said Tuesday. "I sure didn't want it to be a call to burn anything other than our taste buds."Green said: "We have a number of different kinds, and some of it is really hot -- I mean, incredibly hot."
The phrase is associated with the race riots in the Watts section of Los Angeles in 1965. Onlookers started chanting it after police arrested a young man for drunken driving. The confrontation triggered six days of rioting, resulting in more than 30 deaths, 1,000 injuries and devastating fire damage to the neighborhood.
Each bottle of Burn Baby Burn Revolutionary Hot Sauce will come with a tag noting milestones in the history of the Black Panther Party for Self- Defense, which was formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and his college classmate Bobby Seale. Newton was fatally shot by a drug dealer in Oakland in 1989.
The tags will highlight the group's social legacy, Fredrika Newton said.
"I guess I want to celebrate the history and to let people know the actual facts of the Black Panther Party and how some of these programs are woven in today, like free breakfast programs and the call for free health care, " she said.
... but really, read the whole article. It is sort of post-ironic, in a post-modern sort of way. You know, swinging on the flippity-flop and all that.
After frustration with the un-hack-ability of the Series 2 TiVo units, I unwrapped the nice ol' Series One that Shawn gave me (after he got his replay!!) and picked up a copy of the O'Reilly hacks book. Let's see how far I get without a phone line now! (I'm still irritated that the Series 2 requires a POTS connection to work its DVR magic.)
Over the past few days, I have been hacking a lot, mostly for work, but also a little for non-work. I have discovered or re-discovered many power-user bits of zsh, my interactive shell of choice. In between long stretches of late-night firefighting (routers melting, electrical systems failing, infrastructure subsystems behaving oddly), I am moving some of my little webapps from their miserable perl or python existences into a world of ruby. Part of this is sped along by nice interfaces such as the flickr API and instiki (wow, what a great name for a wiki!).
Another really nice thing is that, barring configuration parameters, the code works seamlessly on either the powerbook (for development) or the linux or g4 servers. Rich Kilmer blogs about some hacks to get ruby working more smoothly under tiger.
Our old adventurer-about-town Lauren is building a brick oven at the site of the ol' Blackstone Bicycle Co-op.
While cleaning out a closet (why on earth do I have two tuxedo jackets? and who wears shirts requiring separate collars these days?), I found a notebook in which I had scribbled initial impressions of Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. I poked fun at them for poking fun at R.E.M., but little did I realise the extent to which they did so until I picked up the extra-special Tenth Anniversary Edition of the album, which includes a whopping 49 tracks, including the sly "Camera", a take on R.E.M's song of ditto title. And, of course, the best band from Sacto Northern Cal also rib the Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins, and Dave Brubeck. And probably others.