bedeviled mojo slop

Another month, another set of wacky search strings leading people to my blog.

• mojo tattoo - Unfortunately, mojo can't be ink'd.
• tarts - They're, 'ya know, a little sour.
• blue images - You've come to the wrong place. Go here.
• contacting trent reznor through interscope - Or you could hack Paris Hilton's sidekick again. Heiresses love goth!
• cashmere skatepark - Wow ... I mean ... Wow! That'd probably be the most expensive skatepark ... EVER! Like, the kind of skatepark where you'd WANT to fall
• alcohol cabinet - The liquor cabinet here only stocks the finest liquors. And yes, there's Cristal. Though, that bottle is long since empty.
• mallrats livejournal icons - Gratuitous LiveJournal icons search string. Honestly, I don't think it'll ever end.

See y'all next month!

It's the final day to vote for the Ben & Jerry Flavor Resurrection Campaign. Please vote for From Russia With Buzz.

Thanks!

Technorati Tags: ben & jerry's, from russia with buzz

I'm on vacation until Sunday.

Don't stay up too late ...
and remember to brush your teeth ...
and stop pulling your sister's hair!

From the folks at Sprint you've got the Straight up Slush

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• An AdSense Blog | Make Easy Money with Google
  Honestly ... at first I thought it was a joke Powered by blojsom.
  (tags: adsense blojsom_blogs google )

Download.

This update fixes an issue when creating new weblogs.

For whatever reason, over the past few months, I've been feeling that I need more ink permanently needled into my skin. Of course, like many others, I started out thinking, "I'll just get one tattoo and that'll be it. I won't need to get any more tattoos."

Wrong!
Wrong!

And so, it's been a year and a half since I last had any work done. I've designed my tattoos myself and I'd been looking for something to help me design some tribal tattoos.

Enter, Create-A-Tattoo.com.

It's basically a web-based tribal tattoo creation application. There are roughly 600+ designs at the moment to choose from and tweak. Or you can design your own using some simple line and shaping tools. You can save your designs in your own library. It was only $16.95 for a year, so I figured what the hell.

After playing with the application, I've got two designs of reasonable size and intricacy that I'm happy with. My frustrations came about because there was no way to cut and paste between their designs or your own designs. I wrote to them asking if they were adding this functionality at some point.

Enter, Create-A-Tattoo.com's Plus offering. Copy and paste. Element libraries. Half-sleeve, armband and lowerback tattoos. Zoom in and out. And it's only a $8.95 upgraded added onto the $16.95 for the basic application access.

Upgrade!

So, for around $26 a year, I get to create and print as many designs as I can and then pay to have them permanently etched. Damned if this isn't going to be an "interesting" few years I've got ahead of me.

Technorati Tags: tattoo, tribal_tattoo

Grappa, also known as Grappa Wine, is an Italian grape-based spirit of between 40% and 50% vol. It is made from the distillation of pomace (also called marc), i.e., the pieces of grapes (including the stems and seeds) that were pressed for the winemaking process. It was originally made to prevent wastage by using the leftovers at the end of the wine season.

Technorati Tags: grappa

Lucky - Seven Mary Three

Yesterday I received my complimentary, not for resale copy of Mac OS X Server.

blojsom ... it's in there. Now I need to order a Dual-G5 so that I can actually run it

Technorati Tags: fossil watch time

• CreateATattoo - Home
  Create your own custom tribal tattoo designs
  (tags: tattoo tribal_tattoo )

The motorcycle wave is something nearly all bikers do even if they don't think about it. It is a simple to-the-side flick of the wrist imperceptible to most motorists but understood by bikers. It's like a secret handshake.

In time of need, the person you waved to may be the only one who stops to help you. In its simplest form, I guess it boils down to camaraderie of the saddle, and personal pride to say to the other rider: "Hey, this is a great sport and I am having fun... how about you?"

In no particular order ...

Channel 200 - Information request received, content delivered
Edmonton Golf Association - Edmonton Golf Association Comminuty
Citerus Weblog

Editor's note: The Citerus Weblog has a note on the bottom that blojsom is licensed under a Creative Commons license. I assume they mean their content is licensed using the CC license. blojsom is licensed using the BSD license.

Cristian Olaru - Java, Web, patterns, extreme software
Andy's Blog - Java, Tapestry, Hibernate and OSS
Nominet Tech Blog - Random technical thoughts from the Nominet technical team.

Editor's note: Nominet UK is the registry for .uk internet names. Cool

If you've got a blog powered by blojsom and you want me to add it to the "powered by" page, drop me an e-mail and let me know.

Dear Internet and readers of my blog,

There are many loves in this wacky world we all live in. Some people love sandy beaches. Other people love flying kites. A few people out there love chocolate covered grasshoppers. And other people love ice cream.

I happen to love ice cream.

Specifically, I love From Russia With Buzz. Right now Ben & Jerry's is running a flavor resurrection campaign. One of the flavors up for resurrection is From Russia With Buzz. I'd love to be able to love From Russia With Buzz once again. And by love I mean I'm going to go to my local Ben & Jerry's store and purchase as much of this splendiferous ice cream as I can and eat it. I'd be happy to share some, but that can only happen if From Russia With Buzz is raised from the dead.

If you've already voted for From Russia With Buzz, thank you. But remember, you can vote for this flavor each day this month until May 31st. I've looked at the daily totals and the numbers don't seem to be moving. I could be crazy. They seem to be stagnant. Unfortunately it looks like From Russia With Buzz is in second place. I'm not sure.

All I know is, I can ... you can ... we can all do our own part to vote this flavor back into our freezers! It's so simple. It's just ... Wavy Gravy is in first, but Google for Wavy Gravy and you're getting results for Wavy Gravy the person. There's no mention of the flavor resurrection campaign. Contrast that to a Google for From Russia With Buzz. That's where the love is folks. I may just be one man, but I'm a man on a mission to get this flavor resurrected.

Thanks for listening. Thanks for voting for From Russia With Buzz.

Sincerely,

David Czarnecki

Technorati Tags: ben & jerry's, from russia with buzz

Tiger ... purchased.
160GB GB backup drive ... purchased.
Entire contents of Macintosh HD ... backed that thang up.

Tiger upgrading ... proceeding ... finished at 9:06 PM.

Roughly an hour and a half for the total install.
All my music is still around.
None of my mail disappeared.
Indexing for spotlight is going to take about 15 hours ... 16 hours ... 7 hours ... awhile longer.
Programs seem a little slower, but that's probably that new operating system install lag.
New default font is more eye pleasing.

Technorati Tags: osx, tiger

I wrote a program to blend Flickr images which share the same tags. No human is involved in choosing, positioning, or blending the images.

Technorati Tags: flickr

• Logo Design by Got Logos - Custom Logo Design at Incredible Prices
  I might have to check this out for an upcoming project
  (tags: logos )
• triplexgoldteeth.com- Spinning teeth
  OH ... MY ... GOD!
  (tags: bling_bling )

• Simpy - tagging, social bookmarking and personal search engine
  (tags: folksonomy social_bookmarking )

Simpy

Simpy is a social bookmarking service. With Simpy, you can save, tag and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other users' links and tags. You can be open and share your links with others, or keep them private.

Simpy also helps you find like-minded people, discover new and interesting sites, publish your bookmarks, detect and eliminate link-rot, etc.

A month or so ago, Otis asked me if I would write the Java API to interact with the Simpy REST API. I guess yesterday he had finished the REST API. And so today, 3 hours later, the Simpy Java API.

Download. Javadocs.

I can't say I really have long term interest in maintaining YAA (Yet Another API), but this at least bootstraps their API efforts.

Anyhoo, if you ever wanted to interact with the Simpy REST API using Java and you were looking for an API to do it, well, look no further.

And now for something completely different. Check out some Napoleon Dynamite WAVs/MP3s.

Liger clip.

Deb: "What are you drawing?"
Napoleon: "A liger."
Deb: "What's a liger?"
Napoleon: "It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed. Bred for it's skills in magic."

Enjoy!

Technorati Tags: java, REST, simpy

Jay releases version 1.1 of his Linklist plugin for blojsom. Tomorrow I'll devote time to getting the plugin contest entries online and working with the blojsom 2.25 codebase since it's due out in the next day or so.

NetNewsWire 2.0 available.

Download it.
Install it.
Use it.
Love it.

NetNewsWire was the 2nd piece of software I purchased for my Macintosh. ecto was the first.

Technorati Tags: NetNewsWire

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Turning the web into 'sushi belts'
  "Like sushi restaurant conveyor belts, it delivers content to people so they can easily pick what they want to read."
  (tags: RSS syndication )

• DC Shoes x The Spotted Pig
  "It would also seem a no brainier that a quirky restaurant should have it’s own shoe for the staff."
  (tags: food shoes )
• iSudoku
  Freeware Sudoku for OS X ... joy!
  (tags: games os_x puzzles )
• Sudoku
  Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.
  (tags: games puzzles )

delicious-java

delicious-java is a Java API for interacting with the del.icio.us social bookmarks service.

Changelog.
Download.
Javadocs.

Technorati Tags: del.icio.us, java

• Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard resurrection voting
  Please vote for From Russia With Buzz!
  (tags: ben_and_jerry from_russia_with_buzz ice_cream )
• blingmethod.com :: how a geek gets their bling bling
  (tags: bling_bling geek )
• Atom Publishing Protocol
  A few steps closer to having something final to implement in blojsom
  (tags: Atom_API weblogs )

• It uses delicious-java 1.6 (not released yet). I'll do that later this evening. I made 2 changes in the library. One to change the method retry handling behavior in HttpClient from 3 retries to 0 retries and I added a method to the Post object to be able to break up the tags say by a space for easy looping.
• You can configure the hour of the day in which the plugin will post any del.icio.us links to your blog. This is a per-blog setting. A thread runs once an hour and posts links to the blogs that have links and are set to post for that hour.
• A Velocity template is used for the body of the blog entry. So, if you don't like the default one that is used by the plugin, you're free to change it. This can be overridden on a per-blog basis The template is passed a list of Post objects and your del.icio.us username.
• You can configure the title of the entry. It defaults to "del.icio.us links for {date}" where {date} is yyyy-MM-dd and gets filled in for the day on which things get posted.

Technorati Tags: delicious tagging

Before:

After:

A month goes by pretty quickly.

Technorati Tags: flowers

A few quickie updates here folks on the campaign to resurrect the greatest Ben & Jerry's flavor created in the history of Ben & Jerry's flavors.

1. Technorati gets top billing as Google #1 for a search for "from russia with buzz". I'm happy to concede the top spot. <kyle>You bastards!</kyle>

2. People are trying to sway the voting in the flavor resurrection campaign. The voting numbers previously reflected up-to-the-vote results, but now reflect the previous day's top choices.

From Russia With Buzz superfan and I kindly ask again for your votes in the Flavor Resurrection campaign.

FROM RUSSIA WITH BUZZ!

Technorati Tags: ben & jerry's, from russia with buzz

EnFlash goes open source

EnFlash is an ActionScript Application Framework that I have been developing for about an year. It started as an experiment and it's main goal was to achieve a set of User Interface possibilities that haven't been done previously in Flash. I had already a nice framework created for projects like Job Designer and Alignment Tool, but I wanted something new that uses ActionScript 2, MovieClip composition and other cool techniques. The first EnFlash demo appeared in August last year and since then I continue to develop it when I have free time.

Rostislav is also responsible for 3 of the themes that ship with blojsom, the default theme, Ocean, and Vampire.

I guess I took a liking to the Wordpress theme, "Fresh Bananas" because it was very reminiscent of Katamari Damacy. At least to me it was. So, I adapted it for use with blojsom. You can use it as a theme for your blojsom blog if you'd like. It's eye pleasing for sure.

You'll be able to download this and other themes I can't include in the blojsom distribution from the blojsom templates download section.

Simply unpack it into a "fresh-bananas" subdirectory in your "themes" directory or copy the files from the templates subdirectory into your blog's template's directory and copy the JPGs and CSS file into your blog's resources directory. Ask if you need help.

Thanks to Jeff Wheeler for designing the theme.

Enjoy!

Technorati Tags: themes

The interesting thing about the voting for the Ben & Jerry "Raise A Flavor From The Graveyard" campaign this month is that they're watching the voting. Any fradulent voting and they take those votes away. So please, keep it legit y'all!.

It's touch and go on a daily basis here folks. My birthday wish is that I'll be able to purchase at least a pint of "From Russia With Buzz". Ideally I'll be able to walk into my local Ben & Jerry's and purchase a tub of this good stuff. But, if I can only purchase pints, so be it.

You are allowed to vote once a day ... so please do. And please vote for "From Russia With Buzz".

Thanks for your support!

Technorati Tags: from russia with buzz, ben & jerry's

ecto rocks. As a blogging client, it's "'da bomb!" and then some. Recently, Adriaan added support for Technorati Tags. I've been using it a lot lately. I also wanted to be able to tag entries through blojsom's web interface when I'm at a computer where ecto isn't available. Hence, the Technorati Tags plugin.

If you're editing a blog entry and you're running this plugin, you automatically get an input field in which to edit the tags associated with a particular entry.

Viewing the entry you'll see the links to the individual tags pages at Technorati.

Simple, but effective. It'll be available in the next release of blojsom.

Technorati Tags: ecto, tags

Apparently some good folks over at Lush are fans of the movie High Fidelity. One of their new shower gels is named "Sonic Death Monkey".

What?! You'd have preferred they'd called it "Kathleen Turner Overdrive"?

My dad is, well, a history and political aficionado. He recently returned from a trip to attend the formal dedication ceremony of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. From a recent letter about the trip, he writes:

I had the distinction of being the first official visitor to the museum when it opened on Saturday, April 16th, because I was crazy enough to arrive there at 7 AM.

Take that Episode III geeks!

Technorati Tags: abraham lincoln, episode iii, obsession