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More birthday surprises today.

• Another Fossil watch - Pretty good haul this birthday with 3 new watches!
• Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
• Gift certificate to Ravenous - Crepe restaurant in Saratoga Springs

Ugggggggggh. I've been glued to the television since 4 PM with that godforsaken game! I seriously need more hours to be added to each day. Seriously

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My birthday dinner was nothing short of super spectacular. Dinner was at the Inn at Erlowest on Lake George. Here's a little bit about their menu (my emphasis).

The dining room offers 3 options of menus, a Grand Tasting menu, Vegetable Tasting Menu, and an à la Carte menu. All menus change daily depending on the ingredients available by some of the best produce, fish, meats, and dairy producers in the Northeast and New England.

I'd like to think the menu was created just for me. In fact, let's go with that. It wasn't even a consideration to order from the a la Carte menu, so it was the Grand Tasting menu. And, of course, the additional wine pairing. Wow ... I mean ... wow. Here's the Grand Tasting menu from August 26, 2005.

Uni Custard
Champagne, Laurent-Perrier, Brut, L-P, France, NV

Turbot with Sea Beans & Garden Tomatoes
Pinot Blanc, Trimbach, Alsace, France, 2002

Dover Sole a La Grenobloise
Gruner Veltliner, Nigl, Kremser Freiheit, Kamptal, Austria, 2004

Butter Braised Lobster with Chanterelles, Suncokes & Mache
St Aubin 1er Cru, Olivier Leflaive, en Remilly, Burgundy, 2003

Cured Foie Gras with Foie Gras Ice Cream
Chateau Rieussec, Sauternes, Bordeaux, France, 1999

Seared Lamb Loin with Carrot Trio
St-Emilion, Chateau Coutet, Bourdeaux, France, 2001

Peanut Butter & Strawberry Gelee
Domaine de Coyeaux, Muscat de Beaumes de Venise, 2001

Four words: Foie Gras Ice Cream!

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Oh, and my super secret birthday surprises ...

• A black jacket
• Two new shirts
• 1 GB iPod Shuffle

Textiles and technology ... HOORAH!

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I'm posting from my new iMac. I didn't choose to allow it to migrate any settings from my old Powerbook. I had to start fresh 'ya know and leave that old baggage behind.

I did get the wireless mouse and keyboard and am still adjusting to Apple's one-button mouse. Seriously need to get a Mighty Mouse even if it isn't wireless. I need that right-click capability and scroll ball. There's the two-button mouse with scroll wheel that I used with the Powerbook, but ... it's not new.

Finally I have some decent screen real estate at my disposal.

God I'm such a nerd.

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It's almost my birthday, but I've gotten a few gifts already ... a few brand spankin' new Fossil watches.

This is the watch I like to call, Mr. Roboto (known to Fossil as Big Tic I guess). He shuffles into view from the left, dances for a bit, and then shuffles out of view to the right.

And then there's the half-display watch. Apparently this has 11 different animation modes. I don't know what they are yet since I just purchased it tonight via Fossil gift certificate.

Total Fossil Watch count: 31

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No doubt, it would take a lot of extra work to release editions of Google software for non-Windows platforms. Cross-platform development is enormously difficult: that's a fact of software life. (Browser-based software is so attractive because you don't have to worry about writing different versions for different operating systems; the browser makers have already done that heavy lifting for you.) I always understood this intellectually, but now, after several years of following the work over at OSAF for my book, I feel it in my bones.

• Upload a .GIF, .JPG, extra points for .PNG, file for the item that is to be having a posse. The image should be autoscaled.
• Height (ft. and in.) inputs
• Wight input
• Item name input

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I'm ...

ummm ...

well ...

Dave Winer everybody ... Dave Winer! Wearing the ultra-fabulous blojsom (logo version 1.0) t-shirt. That's about the best software/platform misspelling mashup I've seen yet. Dave managed to pack blojsom, blosxom, and osx in one fell swoop.

Have fun in San Francisco!

P.S. - Just so there's no confusion, it's written in Java so you can run it regardless of your underlying platform.

P.P.S. - Now I know how Kathy Griffith feels being on the D-List Some of you just got that joke. Totally just kidding!

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That is all.

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The very first 5K I ran in 1998, the Bruegger's Bagel 5K, it poured. The skies literally opened up and it rained the entire race. I didn't even really get to start the race dry. My shoes and socks were soaked. My clothers were soaked. My body was soaked. I've always told myself that it was my indoctrination into running and that it had to be an awful experience. It can only be better the next race, right?

Fast forward 7 years to August of 2005. It's been maybe 4 years I've run a race. Today I thought I had to be re-indoctrinated into running. Driving home from work, it was pouring. The rain wasn't torrential, but it was raining ... hard. I figured there was again no chance of starting the race dry. But damnit, I paid that $15 for my medium long-sleeve t-shirt, racing number, complimentary Fig Newton bar, bank promotional material, and 4 safety pins and I wasn't about to let all of that go to waste. Besides, I was mentally focused on running the 5K.

I got home. I ate a biscuit. I changed clothes. I packed a change of clothes. I grabbed my iPod and iPod armband. I hopped in the car. 5 minutes later I was at the YMCA. Thankfully the rain had stopped and there was really no sign of it returning. All was good.

I forgot my iPod headphones. Screw that 24.5 minute running mix! I didn't need it anyway.

The run started off fine. There wasn't any crowding like in the megalithic Corporate Challenge. It was basically an entirely flat course so it was fast. My breathing was consistent and regular for the entire race. Coming around the final turn I saw the clock and just went for it. In every race I've ever done, no matter how bad I feel at the end of the race, I can always conjure up a burst at the end to get me there just a little quicker.

23:29.

I beat my predicted time by a solid minute. And then I went for some sushi and had a sake.

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In no particular order, here's a list of things I would not do for Apple product(s).

• Urinate on myself
• Drive my car into a crowd
• Beat people with folding chairs

Others ... well ... just ... read this thread.

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My iPod mix for tomorrow's 5K run:

• March of the Pigs - Nine Inch Nails
• One Armed Scissor - At The Drive-In
• Heaven is Falling - Bad Religion
• Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
• A Modern Way Of Letting Go - Idlewild
• Just Because - Jane's Addiction
• Get Free - The Vines
• My Own Summer (Shove It) - Deftones

Roughly 24.5 minutes which is the time I'm hoping to beat.

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I'm seriously here people ... We Heart (Love) Katamari has two different ship dates according to Amazon.com and EBGames. Amazon.com says pre-order is shipping 09/07/2005. EBGames says the game is shipping 09/13/2005.

I need to know the real date ... like ... NOW! I guess the smart money is on Amazon.com. At best you're 6 days ahead of the EBGames n00bz. At worse you're getting it the same time they do. Either way, you're rolling up a ball of "stuff". Good times ... good times.

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• Brazilian Drinks: Caipirinha
  (tags: alcohol brazil food )

• NAPCS.COM - HOWTO - Setting up a Rails Development Environment on Windows Using Eclipse
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• Java Business Integration
  IEEE Distributed Systems online article about JBI
  (tags: java )
• Mondrian Ruby IDE
  Mondrian is a cross-platform project-manager and editor for the Ruby language.
  (tags: ruby )

Galleryr Plugin is a Blojsom plugin to retrieve information of photos/photosets stored in Flickr. You can create a gallery of Flickr photos in your Blojsom blog, check out Melbourne photoblog for an example.

The FeedList plugin allows you to include external RSS/Atom feeds, and aggregate multiple feeds into one ordered feed.

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blojsom 2.26 is now available. The changelog is attached at the end of this entry. Relevant links below.

So, this is where I'm supposed to say that I've worked tirelessly day and night, slaving away the hours on this release. And, to a certain extent that's been the case. And, to a certain extent it's been sunny outside and it is the summer So, I've also worked on my tan, the garden, throw in a trip to the Baltimore Zoo where I got to feed giraffes and pet a penguin (they're nasty little buggers), still trying to discover the next great Vodka to use as the codename for the next release, etc ... and here we are ... blojsom 2.26.

Most of the work initially was done in the backend to make things less kludgely for the code to handle responses (comments/trackbacks). The Atom syndication format was released as 1.0 so I whipped together a template. The default Atom template is still 0.3 since that's what blojsom expects for the current Atom API implementation. Folks using the LDAP authorization provider have some more control over lookup and attributes and it works better with systems that require authentication. I did manage to whip up a few new plugins, including a plugin that will create a "cloud" of tags for entries you've tagged. You can think of tags as a more fluid category system for your posts. The tag cloud plugin merely tries to represent the tags in way where the more you tag posts with a given tag, the "bigger" that tag is relative to the other tags. You can see it in action in the sidebar on my blog thereby illustrating that I *really* need to start tagging my posts.

I guess that's about it. I'll follow-up with some specific requests. Either way. Enjoy!

<high-school-yearbook>Have a cool summer. K.I.T.</high-school-yearbook>

Changelog.
Upgrading instructions.
Download updates.
Download Quickstart.
Bugs fixed.

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blojsom 2.26 (Codename: Charbay) - Released August 10, 2005

Core

* Added getSubCategories(int depth) method to the BlogCategory class. This allows you to retrieve sub-categories under a given category up to a given depth. The sub-category depth is relative to the depth of the current category. You can use -1 to retrieve all sub-categories.
* Updated classes for entries, comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks to have appropriate sub-classes using the file system for storage. This greatly simplified plugins such as the ones for Comments and Trackbacks to remove redundant code throughout the codebase and to make the underlying codebase easily adaptable to other storage mechanisms such as a database.
* Permalinks are now generated using '-' instead of '_'.
* Added events when comments and trackbacks are approved.
* Added Velocity template for Atom 1.0.

Add-on Core

* Improvements to the LDAP Authorization Provider to allow control over the UID attribute name and to support systems that require authenticated lookup.

Plugins

* New Plugins
* Added the Footnote Plugin that allows you to automatically create footnotes within your blog entries that are automatically linked between the footnotes at the bottom of the entry and back to the location in the entry where the foonote occurred.
* Added the Syndication Feed Import Plugin to allow you to import entries from a syndication feed into your blog. This is useful if you are migrating your blog from another software package to blojsom.
* Added the Tag Cloud Plugin that creates a "cloud" of the tags used on your blog. This "cloud" can be displayed in your template to allow visitors to search among entries based on a given tag.
* Added the Theme Upload Plugin to allow an administrator to upload new themes for their installation of blojsom.
* Existing Plugins
* Administration plugins now direct you to your intended page after logging in if you had requested an administrative action and you were not logged in.
* Comments and Trackbacks plugins now send HTML e-mail notifications. A proper multipart message with HTML and plain text parts is constructed.
* Updated the File Upload Plugin to create a link to the file that you can copy and use in a blog entry after a successful upload.
* Updated the Language Selection Plugin to allow you to remove the selected language from a blog entry.
* Updated the Math Comment Moderation Plugin to allow you to set, on a per-blog basis, a bound on the allowed values and to set the available operations to either addition, addition and subtraction, or addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
* Updated the RSS Enclosure Plugin to allow you to set explicit values for the RSS enclosure.
* Updated the RSS Enclosure Plugin to discover the content length and content type of the enclosure if you only provide a URL to the enclosure.
* Fixed Technorati Tags Plugin so that it correctly parses the tag list using only commas and not spaces.
* Weblogs Ping Plugin now only sends a ping on add/delete/update blog entry events. Previously there were other events that would trigger a ping to be sent by this plugin. Also updated debug messages from this plugin to be specific about its action.

Permissions

* The full list of permisisons available per plugin can be found on the permissions page.
* The Blog Administration Plugin now requires add_blog and delete_blog permissions for a user to be able to add a new blog or delete an existing blog, respectively.
* The Authorization Administration Plugin now requires the edit_other_users_authorization permission for a user to be able to make changes to another user's authorization information.

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• Wine X Magazine's Jelly Belly Wine Bar
  I am not eating any fucking Merlot!
  (tags: food wine )

Next Tuesday I'm doing my first 5K (3.125 miles) run in about 2.5 years for the Southern Saratoga YMCA 5K. Not that I haven't been physically active in that time, but it's only recently I've been back into running. When I was seriously running about 6 years ago I had a few 5K runs that were sub-20 minutes. We'll see how my treadmill work has prepared me as I'm shooting for around 24 minutes.

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• Sushi Encyclopedism
  (tags: food sushi )
• Docking boxes (dbx)
  Docking boxes (dbx) adds animated drag 'n' drop, snap-to-grid, and show/hide-contents functionality to any group of elements.
  (tags: CSS ajax html javascript )
• Bad Behavior - IO ERROR
  Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots.
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delicious-java

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

Changelog.
Download.
Javadocs.

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• ongoing · Atom API Sketches
  (tags: Atom Atom_API )

Pinging lets dozens of services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

Pinging lets dozens of services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

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del.icio.us linkrolls

Linkrolls are a way for you to have your latest del.icio.us bookmarks displayed as part of your website.

Yeah, this pretty much kicks ass. You've got control over the # of items displayed, title (or not) for the linkroll, the option to show tags, the option to show the extended field, choice of icon, choice of bullets, and the ability to limit the output of the linkroll to only include a certain tag or tags. And all you need to do is include the little snippet of JavaScript from their page and you're ready to go. You can even style it per your blog's theme using CSS.

It looks like their linkroll builder also uses Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. OMG! Could it be? This will of course win a Best of ... award at AJAXCon. Yes ... just a little tounge-in-cheek there, but ... either way ... nice work.

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Purple:

Red:

Yellow:

Light Purple:

Yellow Fade:

Orange:

Jalapenos:

Squash:

Bell Pepper:

Unripened Tomatoes:

Baby Watermelon:

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• adc works blog » Blog Archive » Load Balancing with Tomcat 5.5 and JK 1.2
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• HierarchyVersusFacetsVersusTags
  "The problem of where to file: Is it possible to construct the perfect classification system?"
  (tags: folksonomy information_management social_bookmarking )

Well, with 6,436 votes, From Russia With Buzz came in 4th place in the Ben & Jerry's Raise-A-Flavor From The Graveyard campaign. I suspect the number one flavor will be Wavy Gravy, but we've got another 3 weeks before the number one flavor is announced.

*sigh*

I'm off to drown my sorrows in homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream. I guess I need to accept the fact that the greatest flavor combination ever in the history of flavor combinations at Ben & Jerry's will never pass my lips again.

Goodbye tasty friend, I hardly knew ye.

P.S. - Stay strong From Russia With Buzz superfan.

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Honestly, is Flickr still in beta? It seems as if it's been around long enough that it should not be called beta. Yet, their logo on the site still has the beta in it. It's not as if they don't have the non-beta logo artwork. Just curious is all...

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• mediatope II: a cumulative Web 2.0 definition ...
  Five characteristics of the Web 2.0 infrastructure, or Web 2.0 applications
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• Footnotes v Sidenotes
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