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To all of the Twitter plugin users who have been asking (see: screaming) for an identi.ca/laconi.ca plugin for Do, don’t worry I hear you and I will hack it up this weekend. I’m sorry for the delay, school and life have been keeping me busy. Also except some updates to the Banshee plugin, hopefully I’ll have something stable by Monday. Most of the work is done, there are just some bugs to work out.

With the move to cherokee I broke all of my permalinks. I fixed the feed redirect, but I still need to fix the others. I’ve got class now, but I’ll be working on it later. No one reads my blog anyway, so it doesn’t really matter

So I’ve moved this server from Apache to Cherokee. I’ve been using Cherokee at work a lot and have taken quite a shine to it. It’s got a really nice admin interface, and very decent documentation. Apache is getting old, and crufty, and probably much too heavy for what I need it for. Cherokee is lighter, may not be as flexible (I can’t say yet as I’ve just started using it), but sometimes that’s a good thing. I got this blog moved in a matter of minutes, setting up the virtual host was painless. I will make updates as I continue to get more familiar with the application, I’m thinking of making a django site for finding houses with cool Christmas lights, Cherokee will be a part of that project. If you notice any strangeness, please let me know!

Lionshead #2²2⁰2¹.

Free software people! Is anyone from Philly, NY, NJ, DE, or the southern east coast going to the GNOME developer summit? I’m in Philly and trying to find a way up and back (Philly <–> Boston). I can get to NYC economically, but I’ve yet to find any way to Boston, the cheapest has been $120, which is too much for me right now, especially when Boston is only a few hours from Philly. If anyone is going through Philly and can lend a ride (yes, I’ve got gas money), or knows of an economical way from NJ/Philly/New York to Boston I would really appreciate the help. The GNOME Do team has some really cool ideas and we want to connect with other projects. Integration is the key to the future of the desktop paradigm, and GNOME Do is positioned to be a major part of that. I’m not asking for handouts or anything, just information. So if you, or if you know someone who is going to Boston Oct 10 - 13, for the Summit or not, and can help me find a way to get there, I would really appreciate the help. Thanks world.

Last weekend Mark and Sara came into Philly to go record shopping, their trip included a stop into Beautiful World Syndicate at 48th & Pine, which is right up the street from my house. I don’t go record shopping very often since I always end up blowing too much money, but I found some things that I could not pass up, check out these finds!!

1. Beleghost/The Sea Like Lead split 12″
2. signed Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Stop 7″ promo ep
3. Red Stars Theory - Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful (On limited edition red vinyl! It looks like a bowling ball!)

EPIC!

I’m trying to pull some svn, if you know what I’m sayin.

Why is it that people feel entitled to their parents’ money and possessions after they die? I personally feel no right of entitlement to the little bit of money my parents have, they worked for it, I did not, why do I deserve any of it? Of course as their child I expect a certain level of care while I live with them, food, shelter, etc, but once I move out and have a life of my own, why should I expect any more? It’s theirs, not mine. If in their will they leave it all to the save-the-gay-baby-whales-foundation, more power to them, they have that right.

A few months ago my grandfather passed away. He was not my biological grandfather, but blood is irrelevant. He and my grandmother were together for over 35 years, and when he died, he left most of his money and possesions to her, and anything that was his first wife’s to his children, notice that his first wife left her things to him and not her children. This sounds fair, no? When he died he wanted to make sure my grandmother was taken care of, but the other day his children started demanding they my grandmother give them most of the money he had left her. What the fuck? I really don’t understand where this sense of entitlement to someone else’s property — that you had no part in acquiring — comes from.

I woke up at 8:08 on this sunny 08/08/08. Do you know what today is? OLYMPIC TRACK RACING!!! There are some great shots on www.cyclingnews.com. Also today is my 3 year anniversary with Gabby! Sweet! I’m totally gay for her.

I’m ready to watch some epic races. How about you?

In case you don’t know, Android is the codename for google phone, and its fonts are beautiful (and licensed under the Apache license!). If you’re looking to spice up your Ubuntu (or any linux) desktop a little bit, this is an easy way. First grab this tarball containing the ttf files. Once that is downloaded, extract it into /usr/share/fonts/truetype. You can change your fonts through the appearance dialog. The only one I don’t like is monospace one. I’m a big fan of all of the others, however. If you like these fonts over the default one, you may also be interested in the redhat liberation fonts, there is an Ubuntu package you can install, just open synaptic (or your favourite terminal) and install ttf-liberation. Enjoy!

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