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• cuban livejournal icons - Aside from Fidel Castro, a picture of Cuba, and cigars, anything you find meeting this criteria will definitely be random.
• no boxers no jockeys - What is "going commando" Alex.
• table settings - I'd say it's one of my strong points in throwing dinner parties. Evidence #1 and #2.
• define wham bam thank you maam - What is a "quickie" Alex.
• hemp bracelet template - Pick any random design for hippies to zone out on after poking smot or trippin'. The thicker the better. Bonus points for adding patchouli oil to give it that extra special hippie touch.
• double dare slop course pictures - Double Dare!. You know you've always wanted to be slimed!

Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 1 provides support for J2SE 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.4. This release does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 1.4.2.

blojsom ... it's in there

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Honestly, it's laughable that Congress is considering a new $1 coin. It's about as silly as the $2 bill. It's valid currency, but it's really more novelty than anything. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've actually gotten a $1 coin and a $2 bill ... combined. And I can honestly say that I've never used a $1 coin or a $2 bill to actually purchase anything. To me, it's money that you get and you say to yourself, "What the f$^* am I going to do with this?"

Besides, using $2 bills can land you in jail.

Coin and bill collectors probably have a different opinion of these currencies.

Notoriois B.I.G. said it best ... hence the special technorati tag

Technorati Tags: mo' money mo' problems

Aerials - System Of A Down

I'm just curious as to what tags will make it into this post. ecto 2.3 keeps the features coming.

Technorati Tags: ecto, osx, playground

via Larry Lessig's blog - NIN's brilliance (my emphasis)

As reported at BoingBoing (thanks John), Trent Reznor of NIN has released a GarageBand wrap of a forthcoming song. The 70 meg download opens directly into GarageBand. The terms of the license (which you've got to accept to play) aren't too bad. Not the share-cropper culture (the star owns the remixes) that the lawyers for some icons have insisted upon (Mr. Bowie, e.g.) -- NIN permits sharing of the remixes, though not for commercial purposes. Would be very cool, however, were the expressions of freedom expressible in a machine-readable form, and in a license that others could combine other content with, say, in a friendster-like application made for music.

Oh, and the 172 (as of now) remixes of The Hand That Feeds seem to suggest that you can in fact share your remixes.

As I said before, I basically worked with the constructs of the original song. It's the same length. I used the instruments, loops, and vocals from the track. I think it captures aspects of the song I wanted to see broken down, emphasized, removed, etc. Nothing fancy. I'm happy with it.

Finally a thank you to Trent Reznor.

Listen to The Hand That Feeds (Penitent).

Oh my ... the From Russia With Buzz blog!

I thought I was a fan of Ben & Jerry's From Russia With Buzz. Apparently there are others who share in my devotion to this scrumplicious ice cream. Here's a snippet from an e-mail I got this afternoon.

David,

I just want to let you know I came across your blog, and I have the
same passion for FRWB as you do. I've been trying to resurrect it ever
since it dissapeared a few years ago. I've done everything from
calling Ben and Jerry's begging they sell me any leftover stock, to
emailing all my friends to help me in my crusade. So, I thought you
may be interested that I've registered the fromrussiawithbuzz.com
domain, and I am in the process of trying to create a page to tell the
public about it's greatness.

WOW!

From Russia With Buzz superfans unite!

Remember folks, you can vote from now until April 30th for FRWB to be in the running as a flavor to be raised from the grave!

via World Views, JDK 6.0 Internationalization Features

A new article about features under development for JDK 6.0 has a section on internationalization features. The big theme is opening up the architecture of the internationalization frameworks – enabling different implementations of resource bundles as well as the provision of locale data for locales that Sun doesn’t know enough about. The long awaited normalization API and a Japanese calendar round out the feature set.

I do like the thought of a provider-based approach for loading resource bundles although I have not yet run into a situation where I needed to have a different bundle lookup process or have to worry about caching of resources. The ability to manipulate the caching of resources would be useful, especially on the server-side. At the very least, for example, it would enable updating of resources for already deployed web applications.

Bother - Stone Sour

If you're just joining us, Trent Reznor released the single, "The Hand That Feeds", from the upcoming album, "With Teeth", in GarageBand format. From the enclosed readme:

What I'm giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for "the hand that feeds" in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable and the tempo flexible.

I spent about an hour doing some handy edit work. I'm pretty happy with it. I basically worked within the constructs of the song. It's the same length. I used the instruments, loops, and vocals from the track itself. I think it captures aspects of the song I wanted to see broken down, emphasized, removed, etc. I'd also be interested in what other people think of my revisions. Does Trent?

There are some copyright issues involved, so read the notice that pops up. Giving this away is an experiment. I'm interested to see what comes of it, what issues are raised and what the results are.

Clause 4 of the license for the disk image puts the squash on any thinking along those lines.

4. This license expressly forbids resale, relicensing, or other distribution of any of these sounds, either as they exist upon downloading, or any modification thereof. You cannot sell, loan, rent, lease, assign or transfer all or any of the enclosed sounds to another user, or for use in any competitive product.

I could've put my track up and waited for the cease-and-desist letter from the Interscope lawyers. That's not a battle I want to fight at this time.

The track as put out by Trent and Co. is out there for anyone to download. It's exactly what you're going to hear when you actually buy "With Teeth" on May 3rd, 2005. I applaud the effort to release the track in this way ... to allow for deconstruction, examination, listening, mixing, and so on.

So, maybe there will be some more offical channel, through Interscope or NIN or wherever, in which fans will be able to submit back their versions of the song. But why not "bake that in" from the very beginning? It's sooooooooo already there for it to happen. Just give the OK.

Either way, I had fun putting my mark on the song.

My sister is now officially engaged and is officially getting married on my 30th birthday. The wedding is still 2 years off, so I've got time to adjust

I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner, but, I could always get married on her birthday.

Pay to the order of David Czarnecki: $500.

Now I've got to find a worthwhile charity so that I can donate this $500 check.

Related posts, TextAmerica4J 1.0 Available and TextAmerica4J API - I'm A Winner

Were you as clueless as I was about this latest craze in tricking out yo' car's muffler? Or is this old news and as usual I'm late to the game? Either way, you need to get right on ova to BubbRubb.com (warning: some pictures on the site NSFW) and check out the news footage.

Apparently muffler dealers are now adding whistler tips to mufflers. "Whistler tips are a piece of metal welded inside your car's exhaust system that makes the car audible for almost a mile?" It's that "Wooooooo woooooooooooooooooooooo! man" as Bubb Rubb says. It's started in Oakland, CA but I'm sure it's spreading.

Apparently, according to Bubb Rubb's sidekick in the interview, "They're decoration man. It's just for decoration. That's it and that's all man." When was the last time you tried to look deep up someone's exhaust pipe for a decoration? Wait! Don't answer that one

But wait! It gets even better. Whistler tips can be used as alarm clocks! In a response to "Some neighbors say they're way too loud", Bubb Rubb responds, "That's only in the morning. You supposed to be up cooking breakfast ..." Awesome ... They're decorative for your car and practical for the working mothers on your block!

The mind boggles on this one folks. But rest assured homies, Bubb Rubb is blowing up in big way. He's already got a Cafepress store called "Whoo Whooo" and he's going to be on an upcoming episode of everyone's favorite show, South Park.

Whoooooooooo whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

From the Wordform post on Screenshots and Tests. Wordform is a fork of Wordpress. Wordpress is licensed using the GPL.

The license will be LGPL, which is less restrictive than GPL. Credit for each external software project used in Wordform, such as Wordpress, MagpieRSS, RAP (RDF API for PHP), and so on, and their licenses will be included in that license.

I was under the impression that GPL-licensed software required all changes and modifications to be released under the GPL.

No?

Skim.com markets personalized I.D.-tagged clothing: jackets and shirts and bags and skirts, each one individually marked with a unique number and the skim.com URL. Each I.D. number, in turn, correlates to a skim.com e-mail address. If someone sends a note to your I.D. number, it will be forwarded to your skim.com e-mail address. Your clothes are, essentially, telling everyone how to get in touch with you without revealing exactly who you are. As skim.com co-founder Johne Eisenhut describes the concept behind the clothing: "The brands and individualized products you choose communicate something about you, your style and aesthetics, to the outside world. We wanted to find a way to make that communication two-way."

Skim.com's clothing is marketed for what the company's founders call the "urban citizens" of the world, successful young creative types -- artists, graphic designers, Web producers, writers, filmmakers, etc. -- with a bit of money to burn and appreciation of Gucci but an eye on the gutter. (A quick peek at the staff of skim.com reveals a parade of impossibly attractive, confident-looking hipsters who seem to have stepped straight off the jet from their latest jaunt to a hot new club in Reykjavik, Iceland.) The idea is, apparently, that there's an elite insider circle of fashionistas who share similar high/low aesthetics -- an international demographic that might wear a $400 pair of Helmut Lang pants with a vintage T-shirt that they picked up at a thrift store and the latest Adidas trainers.

I won one of the 20 $500 prizes available from TextAmerica for writing TextAmerica4J, a Java API for interacting with TextAmerica.

Thank you for the application you have developed around the textamerica API. The speed with which you did so was amazing. And we are pleased to tell you that you are the first recipient of a $500 award for your efforts.

That means there are now 19 $500 prizes still available. Mark has the TextAmerica4R API finished. Maybe he'll win a prize. You could win too!

If you check the Apple - Open Source page, you'll see the list of open source projects included in the Client and Server versions of their operating system.

blojsom is listed.

Awesome. Right now I've got the only posts for the Technorati tag of blojsom. Self-referen-lic-io-us

Rewind to the initial announcement of TextAmerica4J. Life moves fast here on the Internets. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.

Quick updates on what's happened with TextAmerica4J this evening.

• Link pimp Erik Thauvin pimped TextAmerica4J hm'yah and hm'yah.
• I've already updated the javadocs and they're far better than a few hours ago. Mostly that was due to the fact that I could quickly cut and paste from their documentation. And I've already noted some locations where they've cut and pasted their own documentation. Go go Web 2.0! Code now and document later
• Once my textamerica4j project is approved on SourceForge, I'm throwing the downloads up there.
• Mark Lussier has his TextAmerica4R, an implementation in Ruby, finished. He's applied for a project on RubyForge. So, once that's setup, I'll pimp a link to that download.
• Oh, and Erik found an issue with file size limitation in the initial download I put up, so I've fixed that and that JARs you'd download reflect the updated code.

Downloads available, TextAmerica4J with dependencies and the TextAmerica4J standalone.

Conceivably you could build some applications on top of TextAmerica4J and submit it to their API beta program to win $500. Why not download blojsom and write a plugin?

I don't have confirmation that I'm one of the 20 who'll get a $500 bounty, but I think it's going to happen. Mark and I have both agreed that if either of us win the $500, we're giving it all to charity. That's going to be a pretty good feeling.

Is it really that hard to release software these days starting at version 1.0? Hell no! And thus we have the latest in the spawn of blojsom projects.

TextAmerica4J. It's a Java API for interacting with the TextAmerica moblog service. Their XML-RPC API is discussed on their API page.

UPDATE: See end of entry for download links.

Dependencies: Apache's XML-RPC library. I've bundled the one used with blojsom since I've already made the correct changes there for handling data in UTF-8.

You want the source code? Give me a day before I release the source code. I want to update the javadocs. I also want to see if I can enter this API and win one of the slots in their developer's contest. I didn't find any other Java APIs for interacting with TextAmerica from Googling, so this may be the first. If I win one of the $500 prizes, I'm going to donate the entire prize to a charitable organization.

Here is the textamerica4j moblog. Yeah, that photo was uploaded using the TextAmerica4J.entryUpdate method.

Maybe they'd hire me and I could get in on the photo sharing service buyout VC money bandwagon!

Either way, enjoy folks!

Oh, I should also mention that Mark is working on TextAmerica4R, a Ruby API for interacting with TextAmerica. Here is the textamerica4r moblog.

TextAmerica4J is now available on SourceForge. Javadocs.

Almost a year ago, Apple announced Tiger and Tiger Server, the codenames for their next-generation operating system successors to Panther and Panther Server. Included in Tiger Server, Apple decided to bundle a product called Weblog Server. Weblog Server is based on blojsom, the open source project I developed and continue to actively develop and maintain. Apple's original press release on Tiger Server read as follows.

Weblog Server is fully compatible with Safari RSS in Mac OS X Tiger and makes publishing a weblog as simple as checking a box in Server Admin preferences. Weblog Server is based on the popular open source project ‘Blojsom’ and is fully integrated into Tiger Server with an easy-to-use interface, Kerberos authentication support and LDAP integration. Weblog Server provides users with calendar-based navigation and customizable themes and users can post entries using the built in Web-based functionality or with weblog clients that support XML-RPC or the Atom API.

Apple's latest press release on Tiger Server doesn't read much differently.

Weblog Server is fully compatible with Safariâ„¢ in Tiger and makes it easy for non-technical individuals to publish and syndicate content using their existing web browsers. It supports calendar-based navigation, user and group blogs and HTML, RSS, RSS2, RDF or ATOM protocols. Weblog Server can integrate with Open Directory, LDAP and access control lists for authentication and comes with several Apple-designed blog themes.

It originally started with an e-mail from an Apple engineer that basically read.

We are thinking about including blojsom in an upcoming product release. Are you the point of contact?

I wrote back saying I was and that I would be happy to answer any questions. A month, maybe two, went by and I hadn't heard anything and so I wrote back and asked if there was any more information I could provide to help them along in their process. The message I got back was basically, "We cannot divulge any information about future product releases." Bummer But hey, I respect employee agreements and so I guess I have to respect those who respect their employee agreements.

And then Apple's WWDC happened. And they announced Weblog Server that was based on blojsom. And things were a little bit different that day.

blojsom was the first project I released as open source. It wasn't but a year old and it was being included in an operating system. And future updates from blojsom that make it into Weblog Server will probably be delivered via Software Update. That's a real trip.

Oh yeah, and celebration. Cristal. A welcome note from Steve Jobs.

Fast forward to the present day. It's been just over 2 years since I started blojsom. Things are going quite well. I love the project. There are t-shirts and hooded sweatshirts. I want to grow the functionality as quick as possible. There are times when I think that people don't pay attention to the project and then someone writes and says, "Thank you for the work you've done on blojsom." And that means a lot.

It's really going to be exciting once Tiger Server hits the shelves. It'll be a little different to walk into the local Apple store and hold a packaged box that contains software I developed. And if I wanted to buy Tiger Server, I'd have to pay the $499 for the 10-client edition or the $999 for the unlimited-client edition since I don't work for Apple. I guess I could ask my Apple contacts, "Can I get a free copy of Tiger Server?" But that'd also entail having to buy a machine that I could use to actually run the software Double-edged sword.

I'm looking forward to the feedback from people using Weblog Server. As it's based on blojsom, they're able to develop and use all of the blojsom plugins, write custom themes, request and tweak functionality, and so on. If there's one thing I've learned from working on blojsom it's that you need to be accepting of any and all feedback about your project. You have to take the good with the bad. It helps you grow. It helps your project grow.

I'm trying to follow all of the news related to Tiger Server. If there are specific items of interest you think I need to read or address, send 'em along.

To the folks who read my blog (all 7 of you), thanks. To the folks using blojsom, thanks. To the folks who have participated in the mailing lists providing feedback, submitting bugs, and entering contests, thanks.

To the folks purchasing Tiger Server on April 29th, thanks in advance for the feedback.

Adam Burt graciously sent me WML and Mobile XHTML templates for blojsom. You can grab them now from those links or they'll be available with the next release of blojsom.

Anyone from Nokia or another company want to donate a phone so I use these as well?

Thanks again Adam!

OK folks. Let me break it down for y'all. I love Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Hands down, my all-time favorite flavor has to be the mashup between White Russian and Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz. This flavor was aptly named, From Russia With Buzz.

A completely caffeinated cross of coffee ice cream with coffee liqueur and dark coffee ice cream with espresso fudge chips. When it departed we sorely wept. But when it was here we never slept.

Not only is the name genius, but the flavor can not be beat. Let me repeat, it .. can .. not .. be .. beat!

The past maybe 3 years, I've gotten a box of Ben & Jerry's ice cream for my birthday. And by box I mean what they scoop out of at the Ben & Jerry's shops. It's awesome! My first box of ice cream was From Russia With Buzz. The first box I got I ate through in roughly 27 days. Not counting the birthday party guests who dined on the Ben & Jerry's as well, I basically knocked it off myself.

At Ben & Jerry's this past weekend, I picked up their flavor graveyard flyer. Basically they're polling the public to see what flavor of Ben & Jerry's they're going to resurrect from the flavor graveyard. Much to my delight, From Russia With Buzz, is on this year's list of flavors to be raised "from the dead".

From now until April 30th, you may go to the raise a flavor page and select a flavor to be eaten again! May 1st through May 31st, the voting for the favorite of the top 10 flavors will occur. Around August 22nd of this year, you'll be able to get that resurrected flavor for a limited time. This would coincide quite nicely with my birthday at the end of August.

So, if you want to help me out, go to the raise a flavor page, select From Russia With Buzz from the drop-down list, and click the submit button. You don't need to leave any other information. Again, you may vote once a day from now until April 30th.

I'll be back next month to really push for some votes if From Russia With Buzz is in the running. Right now it's 6 out of 10 so chances are good, but that may all change.

Thank you for your support!

Any day now I'm expecting a call from my sister that's going to go pretty much like this:

Sister: "Dude" finally proposed. We're getting married on your 30th birthday.
Me: OK.

I already know about the "they're getting married on my 30th birthday part".

I may have to lay down some seriously guilt to get myself my own limousine or something

It's beginning to look a lot like Spring around these parts. It was an absolutely gourgeous Saturday afternoon. There wasn't a cloud in the sky all day. Here are some shots taken this afternoon.

The tulips are beginning to show.

Some call it a shed, some call it an adult's fort

Rabbits living under the shed left a little present.

Time to bring out the toys!

Today my accountant delivered a little envelope of happy. Tax refunds at the federal and the state level. It's probably a result of a) buying a house and b) being able to deduct interest and taxes paid on said house. Yay tax shelter!

Either way ... W00t!

I'd been using iPodderX Lite as my program of choice for downloading podcasts (RSS enclosures for you techies). Even though NetNewsWire, my newsreader of choice, supported downloading of enclosures, its enclosures settings were defined on a global basis. This sucked because in iTunes I have specific podcast playlists that get sync'd to my iPod. The latest beta of NetNewsWire supports per-feed enclosure settings. Yummy! This is not to say that I wouldn't recommend iPodderX to anyone. It's a great application. I just don't need all the extra integration support it offers.

Podcasting is hot. But it just got hotter. Paris Hilton invites you to join her on “The Paris Hilton Podcast — Countdown to House of Wax,” beginning on April 29. Join Paris and friends as she shops, parties, poses and publicizes in the days leading up to the May 6 opening of House of Wax. “The Paris Hilton Podcast — Countdown to House of Wax” may be played back on your iPod or any portable media player.

BLOJSOM-54 was a fun one.

I was wondering if there was any way of editing the code used by the
moblog plugin to insert images into a blog entry?
the images my camera generates are too big for the containing element
in the blojsom template, and spill out underneath all the links at the
side of my blog. could i produce a velocity template with something
like

You can use the default template or you can override the template to produce the text for an entry that's styled to your liking. As the templates are configurable per blog, well, you know the drill. Each blog could style its moblob entries differently.

Let the moblog madness begin Or not ...

My endless infomercial bit has gotten a lot of pick-up, the latest being Howard Kurtz's column in the Washington Post. He even included the sarcastic swipe at pro-jos. "Now would be a great opportunity for some of the real reporting the pros are so famous for." Good work.

I've added a Technorati Cosmos link to each entry. If you'd like to do the same, here's what I did.

1. Uploaded the Technorati Cosmos image to my blog.
2. Added the following to my asual-entry.vm template after printing out the link to the trackbacks page.

<a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&sub=mtcosmos&url=$entryLink">
<img src="#Resource('cosmos.gif')" alt="Technorati Cosmos" align="top"/>
</a>

That's it.

Members Only jackets making a comeback?

It is scary when you look at those jackets and go, "Yeah, I could see myself wearing one of 'em". To hell with 80s fashion stigmas!